Construction of 1862 International Exhibition buildings
Photograph
08/10/1861 (photographed)
08/10/1861 (photographed)
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Photographs and photographers were present from the very beginning of the V&A's history and the Museum has an extensive collection of images from the 1850s through to the present which documents the construction and development of the V&A and the South Kensington site.
Originally collected by the National Art Library as part of a programme to record works of art, architecture and design in the interest of public education, these topographic and architectural views were valued as records and as source material for students of architecture and design. As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography.
This is one of many photographs which were taken to document the construction of the 1862 International Exhibtion buildings.
Originally collected by the National Art Library as part of a programme to record works of art, architecture and design in the interest of public education, these topographic and architectural views were valued as records and as source material for students of architecture and design. As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography.
This is one of many photographs which were taken to document the construction of the 1862 International Exhibtion buildings.
Object details
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| Title | Construction of 1862 International Exhibition buildings (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph, South Kensington, Construction of the nave, 1862 International Exhibition albumen print, 08/10/1861 |
| Physical description | A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of the frame of a building under construction. Construction material surrounds the structure. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'A.b. LONDON / 1862 Exhibition' (department classification label, lower right mount) |
| Object history | After the Great Exhibition of 1851 the nation desired to see more international or 'universal exhibitions'. The first of these was the 1862 International Exhibition, housed in a building paid for by part of the profit from 1851. It was designed by the engineer Captain Francis Fowke, who had designed parts of the South Kensington Museum. The location for the exhibition was a large site at the southern end of Exhibition Road, now mainly occupied by the Natural History Museum and Science Museum. |
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| Summary | Photographs and photographers were present from the very beginning of the V&A's history and the Museum has an extensive collection of images from the 1850s through to the present which documents the construction and development of the V&A and the South Kensington site. Originally collected by the National Art Library as part of a programme to record works of art, architecture and design in the interest of public education, these topographic and architectural views were valued as records and as source material for students of architecture and design. As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography. This is one of many photographs which were taken to document the construction of the 1862 International Exhibtion buildings. |
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| Accession number | 1567-1927 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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