Image of Gallery in South Kensington
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Entrance to South Kensington Museum with Lecture Theatre visible in the background

Photograph
1868 (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
Titles
  • Entrance to South Kensington Museum with Lecture Theatre visible in the background (generic title)
  • London Series (series title)
Materials and techniques
Two albumen prints
Brief description
Photograph by J. Davis Burton, No. 1 in the London Series, 'Entrance to South Kensington Museum with Lecture Theatre visible in the background', stereoscopic albumen prints, 1868
Physical description
Stereographic photographs mounted on green card showing the entrance to a single story building with a large tree just to the left of the entrance. There are streetlamps along a groomed path with railing leading up to the entrance.
Dimensions
  • Mount height: 33cm
  • Mount width: 26.6cm
Style
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.
Associated objects
Other number
N2010 - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
60751

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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