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Science Schools from the SW (Exhibition Road)

Photograph
ca. 1873 (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
TitleScience Schools from the SW (Exhibition Road) (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph by Isabel Agnes Cowper, 'Science Schools from the SW (Exhibition Road)', albumen print, ca. 1873
Physical description
A mounted photograph of the facade of a brick building with arched windows on the ground floor.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Architecture, etc. / England & Wales / IIaa / London: (South Kensington) royal College of Science. / (view from S.W.) / (reversed) / Science Schools from S.W.'
    Transliteration
    ink, mount
  • library stamp
    Transliteration
    blindstamp, upper centre mount
  • 'A.b. LONDON'
    Transliteration
    department classification label, lower right mount
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
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
73:535 (Version)
Other number
9854, 9855 (MA/32/29), F518 (MA/32/272) - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)
Collection
Accession number
73536

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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