The Old Farmhouse
Photograph
1860s (photographed)
1860s (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
A sepia coloured photograph of a farmhouse with a thatched roof. A man is sitting outside the farmhouse building.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | The Old Farmhouse (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Francis Bedford (1816-94) 'The Old Farmhouse' ca. 1860. Albumen print. |
| Physical description | A sepia coloured photograph of a farmhouse with a thatched roof. A man is sitting outside the farmhouse building. |
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| Gallery label | Francis Bedford (1816 – 94)
‘The Old Farmhouse’
About 1860
Bedford worked as a draftsman and lithographer
before taking up photography. His photographs,
like many made in Britain at this time, adopted
the ‘Picturesque’ themes and subjects that the
previous generation of artists had shown in
paintings and drawings. However, photography
gave renewed ambition to the quest to convey the
feeling and textures of nature through the eye.
Albumen print
Mitchell Loan(2013) |
| Credit line | Purchase funded by the Cecil Beaton Fund |
| Object history | This photograph was collected by 19th century photographer, William England, and by descent to Mark Mitchell. It was on long loan to the V&A from 1982 to 2013. |
| Association | |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.26-2014 |
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| Record created | December 2, 2013 |
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