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V&A Museum, North Court, Salon d'Honneur, Franco-British Exhibition of Tapestries, with Warder H. Robert

Photograph
1921 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleV&A Museum, North Court, Salon d'Honneur, Franco-British Exhibition of Tapestries, with Warder H. Robert (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gelatin silver print
Brief description
Photograph, 'V&A Museum, North Court, Salon d'Honneur, Franco-British Exhibition of Tapestries, with Warder H. Robert', gelatin silver print, 1921
Physical description
A mounted black and white photograph of a skylit gallery space hung with tapestires. An upholstered bench sits in the middle of the space. A uniformed guard watches over the space.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'NORTH COURT, Victoria and Albert Museum. SALON D'HONNEUR. Franco-British Exhibition of Tapestries, &c., 1921.' (label, lower right mount)
  • 'A.b. LONDON' (department classification label, lower right mount)
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
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
Other number
49495 (MA/32/149) - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
737-1921

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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