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Plan of the parishes of Kensington and St. Margarets, Westminster

Photograph
1856 (printed)
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
TitlePlan of the parishes of Kensington and St. Margarets, Westminster (generic title)
Materials and techniques
ink on paper
Brief description
Mounted albumen print, plan of the estates of the area of South Kensington, commissioned for the Exhibition of 1851, 1856
Physical description
A printed map detailing the area around South Kensington
Dimensions
  • Image height: 19.5cm
  • Image width: 14.0cm
  • Mount height: 29.1cm
  • Mount width: 24.3cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'PLAN OF ESTATES IN THE PARISHES OF KENSINGTON AND ST. MARGARETS WESTMINSTER IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX PURCHASED BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMISIONERS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 1851' (printed, lower right)
  • 'IIaa' 'Topography. England & Wales' London. South Kensington Exhibition' '2nd Corp'l J.F. [illeg?] Church' 'R.S. of [illeg?] Miners [illeg.] 1856 (ink, pencil 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
34:997 (Copy)
Collection
Accession number
34954

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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