The Greek Court, Crystal Palace

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Artist/Maker	Delamotte, Philip Henry (photographer)
Place of origin	Sydenham (photographed)

Photograph of the Greek cast court, showing the Venus de Milo.

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Categories	Photographs Crystal Palace Sculpture Architecture
Object type	Photograph
Title	The Greek Court, Crystal Palace (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Albumen print Photographic Paper Albumen Process
Brief description	Photograph by Philip Henry Delamotte, 'The Greek Court, Crystal Palace', albumen print, ca. 1854
Physical description	Photograph of the Greek cast court, showing the Venus de Milo.
Dimensions	Image height: 230mm Image width: 280mm Sheet height: 268mm Sheet width: 330mm
Marks and inscriptions	SYDENHAM: Crystal Palace Note Label, bottom left corner. [Lo]ndon Crystal Palace. The Greek Court. The Venus of Milo Note Inscribed in pencil along bottom edge of sheet.
Gallery label	(27 November 2018) Cast Courts Reinstallation, 27 November 2018 5. 'The Greek Court. The Venus De Milo', Crystal Palace Phillip Henry Delamotte, 1854 The Cast Courts were one of the first permanent displays of casts open to the public in Britain. They drew inspiration from the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, where exhibitions of thousands of plaster copies told the history of world culture, and also from smaller collections at the Sir John Soane Museum and the 'Museum of Medieval Art, owned by the Gothic-revival architect, Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. REPRODUCED FROM Albumen print Sydenham, London Museum no. 39295
Subject depicted	Crystal Palace
Place depicted	Crystal Palace (South London)
Bibliographic reference	pp. 328/9 Edited by Martina Droth, Jason Edwards, and Michael Hatt ; with contributions by Tim Barringer ... [et al.]. Sculpture victorious : art in an age of invention, 1837-1901 New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780300208030
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	39295

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Record created	July 1, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1101713/the-greek-court-crystal-palace-photograph-delamotte-philip-henry/

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