Marble Relievo of the youthful St. John the Baptist
Photograph
ca. 1864 (photographed)
ca. 1864 (photographed)
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Photograph mounted on card showing a Pietra serena figure of a youthful St John the Baptist
Object details
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Title | Marble Relievo of the youthful St. John the Baptist (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | gelatin silver print |
Brief description | Photograph by Charles Thurson Thompson, Marble Relievo of the youthful St. John the Baptist from Strawberry Hill, ascribed to Desiderio da Settignano, on loan from Sir C. Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet, gelatin silver print, ca. 1864 |
Physical description | Photograph mounted on card showing a Pietra serena figure of a youthful St John the Baptist |
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Object history | This photograph is part of a collection of photographs recently discovered in the Sculpture Section among archival material that relates to the V&A's celebrated Cast Courts. The photographs document objects in the Cast Courts, including originals from which the casts were made. The staff member who assembled this collection of photographs organised them chronologically in terms of the year that the V&A acquired the casts. Each photograph had also been indexed to the corresponding object in the V&A cast collection. From the very beginning, the V&A commissioned and collected photographs as a way of extending the visual resources of the Museum to artists and students of art and design. Architectural and topographical photographs, as well as photographs of art objects such as these, would have been collected by the National Art Library to be used as reference material. By the late 1970s, in conjunction with the formation of the Photograph Collection as a curatorial section with the remit of collecting ‘photography as a work of art’, many of the photographs with particular relevance to other departments within the V&A were transferred in bulk to the corresponding curatorial offices. The organisation by cast date and indexing to the V&A’s casts confirms their status as reference objects. The discovery and cataloguing of these photographs is part of the ongoing programme to reunite photographs scattered among the various departments of the Museum with the rest of the Photography Collection. They come from the same initial sources as the Photographs Collection, and are worthy of reconsideration, both as museum objects and as an important contextual reference source for not only the Cast Courts but the collections of the Museum as a whole. This sculpture was exhibited as part of a special loan to the South Kensington Art Museum in 1862. The detailed provenance of this sculpture, which was presented in 1950 to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the Hearst Corporation, is detailed on the verso of the mount. |
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Associated object | REPRO.1864-12 (Object) |
Bibliographic reference | Valentiner, Wilhelom Reinhold. Gothic and Renaissance Sculptures in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum: Catalogue and Guide. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum, 1951, p. 70, no. 22. |
Other number | Neg No. 3222 (destroyed 1919) - Negative number |
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Accession number | 41571 |
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Record created | January 29, 2016 |
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