Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
British Galleries, Room 122c

Photograph

1898 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Object Type
This photograph is taken from a family photograph album. Most of the photographs in it are printed on platinum paper, which was introduced in 1879. Such a photograph was expensive to produce and enjoyed for its delicate tonal gradations and matt surface.

Ownership & Use
This family photograph album contains single and group portraits and depictions of sports and pastimes that would have amused family, friends and visitors. It is a personal keepsake and document of a wealthy family of the 1890s. Many Victorian and Edwardian family photograph albums such as these were acquired by the V&A in the 1950s and 60s to show examples of the dress of that period.



Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Platinum print
Brief description
Photograph in a family photograph album of an english family taking tea on the lawn
Physical description
Photograph
Dimensions
  • Album height: 27.5cm
  • Album open width: 80cm
Dimensions checked: Measured; 26/01/1999 by sf
Credit line
The Ashton Collection
Object history
Taken in Britain by an unknown photographer
Summary
Object Type
This photograph is taken from a family photograph album. Most of the photographs in it are printed on platinum paper, which was introduced in 1879. Such a photograph was expensive to produce and enjoyed for its delicate tonal gradations and matt surface.

Ownership & Use
This family photograph album contains single and group portraits and depictions of sports and pastimes that would have amused family, friends and visitors. It is a personal keepsake and document of a wealthy family of the 1890s. Many Victorian and Edwardian family photograph albums such as these were acquired by the V&A in the 1950s and 60s to show examples of the dress of that period.

Collection
Accession number
E.2283:6-1997

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Record createdApril 30, 2003
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