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The Rest is Silence

Photograph
1909 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting a road lined with cyprus trees. The road begins in the foreground of the image and retreats into the background, with hills and sky visible.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleThe Rest is Silence (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Carbon print.
Brief description
Photograph by Alexander Keighley, 'The Rest is Silence', carbon print, 1909
Physical description
Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting a road lined with cyprus trees. The road begins in the foreground of the image and retreats into the background, with hills and sky visible.
Dimensions
  • Mount height: 630mm
  • Mount width: 505mm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Royal Photographic Society/ Alexander Keighley Collection 1948/ Title: The Rest is Silence/ Process: Carbon/ Date: 1909/ No. AK 14' (Printed and completed in ink.)
  • 'Alex Keighley' (Handwritten in ink on lower right of image.)
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Other numbers
  • 2030 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
  • 13560 - RPS identifier - inventory no.
  • 14 - RPS identifier - misc.
  • 2003-5001_2_26100 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection
Accession number
RPS.2116-2018

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Record createdJune 20, 2018
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