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National Photographic Record and Survey

Photograph
1902 (made)
Artist/Maker
Stone, Benjamin (Sir) (photographer)
Place of origin
Painswick (photographed)

b&w photograph of newspaper boy in front of wall with stocks in foreground


Object details

Object type
Photograph
TitleNational Photographic Record and Survey (series title)
Materials and techniques
platinum print mounted on card with handwritten ink notation
Brief description
Photograph of Iron Stocks, Painswick, Gloucestershire, Benjamin Stone, 1902
Physical description
b&w photograph of newspaper boy in front of wall with stocks in foreground
Gallery label
  • Iron Stocks. Painswick Gloucestershire 1902 The apparatus of law and order features prominently in NPRA photography. Painswick, Gloucestershire, 1902 Museum no. E.2332-2000
  • In 1897, Queen Victoria’s Jubilee year, Stone announced the formation of the National Photographic Record Association. Its aim was to record Britain’s ancient buildings, customs and other ‘survivals’ of historical interest. The result would be a national memory bank that would foster ‘a national pride in the historical associations of the country, or neighbourhood [and] in family traditions’.(10/2012)
  • Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013, label texts : Benjamin Stone (1838 – 1914) ‘Warwick Pageant, “Queen Ethelfleda and Britons” ’ ‘The Workroom of James Watt, at Heathfield Hall, Staffordshire, Which is Absolutely Undisturbed Since his Death in 1819’ ‘Rock Dwellings, Kinver, Staffordshire’ ‘Iron Stocks, Painswick, Gloucestershire’ 1895 – 1906 Stone’s aim was to record Britain’s ancient buildings and customs, and to foster ‘a national pride in the historical associations of the country’. He formed the National Photographic Record Association in 1897, enlisting amateur supporters from local camera clubs to help him in this project. The project lasted until 1910, creating an archive of over 4,000 prints. Platinum prints Transferred from the British Museum Museum nos. E.2332, 5128, 5153-2000, 680-2001 (11 03 2014)
Credit line
Transferred from the British Museum
Other number
1904 1 16 126 - British Museum number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2332-2000

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Record createdDecember 13, 2000
Record URL
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