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South Kensington Museum, North Court, south-west corner, showing cast of Trajan's column

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
  • South Kensington Museum, North Court, south-west corner, showing cast of Trajan's column (generic title)
  • London Series (Series title)
Materials and techniques
Stereoscopic albumen prints
Brief description
Photographs by J. Davis Burton, No. 3 in the London Series, 'South Kensington Museum, North Court, south-west corner, showing cast of Trajan's column', 1868
Physical description
Mounted Stereoscopic albumen photographs of a glass roofed display space within which are displayed architectural casts and a large fragment of a column with a carved frieze
Dimensions
  • Image height: 7.9cm
  • Image width: 8.1cm
  • Mount height: 8.6cm
  • Mount width: 17.6cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'Davis Burton's / London Series' (printed on left and right edge of mount)
Gallery label
Cast Courts Reinstallation, 27 November 2018 7. 'No. 3 in the London Series, South Kensington Museum, North Court, south-west corner, showing cast of Trajan's column' J. Davis Burton, 1868 Before the Cast Courts were built, copies were displayed in the galleries around the Museum. This image from 1868 shows a section of the cast of Trajan’s Column on display in a gallery called the North Court. Beside the cast is a photograph of the original column's setting in Rome. It was a lot harder to travel abroad in the 19th century compared to today, so many visitors would only ever experience important artworks as copies in museums. REPRODUCED FROM Stereograph South Kensington, London Museum no. 60739 (27 November 2018)
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 object
60:753 (version)
Other number
N2012 - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
60739

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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