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Design by J. W. Wild for the completion of the Bethnal Green Museum building with a tower and curator's house

Photograph
ca. 1867 (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
TitleDesign by J. W. Wild for the completion of the Bethnal Green Museum building with a tower and curator's house (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph, Design by J. W. Wild for the completion of the Bethnal Green Museum building with a tower and curator's house, albumen print, ca. 1867
Physical description
A mounted albumen print of drawn plans for a museum with a covered galleried space in the foreground.
Dimensions
  • Mount height: 27cm
  • Mount width: 33cm
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Association
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
E.1117-1989 (Version)
Bibliographic reference
Physick, John. The Victoria and Albert Museum: The History of Its Building. London: The Victoria & Albert Museum, 1982. plate 31
Other number
9606, F506 - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
E.1116-1989

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Record createdDecember 9, 2008
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