Interior of Crystal Palace, Sydenham

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Artist/Maker	Delamotte, Philip Henry (photographer)
Place of origin	London (made)

Philip Delamotte was commissioned to document the reconstruction of the Crystal Palace exhibition building at Sydenham in 1854. The bright light of the glass interior made it possible to take interior 'news' photographs. Delamotte also taught and wrote about photographic techniques, but the committment of his professorship in drawing at King's College, London meant that his career as a photographer was short-lived and by the end of the 1850s his prolific photographic output had ceased.

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Categories	Access_to_Images 2003 Photographs Great Exhibition SCRAN
Object type	Photograph
Title	Interior of Crystal Palace, Sydenham (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative Albumen Process
Brief description	Photograph of the interior of Crystal Palace by Delamotte, 19th century.
Physical description	Photograph of the interior of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Dimensions	Image height: 28cm Image width: 23cm Sheet height: 33cm Sheet width: 26.7cm
Place depicted	Crystal Palace (South London)
Summary	Philip Delamotte was commissioned to document the reconstruction of the Crystal Palace exhibition building at Sydenham in 1854. The bright light of the glass interior made it possible to take interior 'news' photographs. Delamotte also taught and wrote about photographic techniques, but the committment of his professorship in drawing at King's College, London meant that his career as a photographer was short-lived and by the end of the 1850s his prolific photographic output had ceased.
Bibliographic reference	Calado, Jorge, Ingenuity, Photography and Engineering 1846-2006,Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2007.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	39292

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Record created	January 27, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O90047/interior-of-crystal-palace-sydenham-photograph-delamotte-philip-henry/

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