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Salad Ingredients

Photograph
1948 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A colour photograph depicting various ingredients used in making a salad laid out upon a marble slab. The ingredients include; lettuce, half a lemon, oil and vinegar displayed on spoons, garlic, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, peppercorns and salt.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSalad Ingredients (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Dye transfer colour print
Brief description
Photograph by Irving Penn, 'Salad Ingredients', published in American Vogue in January 1948, dye transfer colour print, USA, photographed 1948
Physical description
A colour photograph depicting various ingredients used in making a salad laid out upon a marble slab. The ingredients include; lettuce, half a lemon, oil and vinegar displayed on spoons, garlic, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, peppercorns and salt.
Dimensions
  • Height: 49cm
  • Width: 38.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Subjects depicted
Association
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1991
Collection
Accession number
E.1526-1991

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
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