Bronze Knocker from the Soulages Collection
Photograph
ca. 1857 (photographed)
ca. 1857 (photographed)
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| Place of origin |
Charles Thurston Thompson was the first official photographer employed by the South Kensington Museum. He was appointed in 1856 but photographed at the Museum in 1853. His subject here is a bronze door knocker. Such objects were photographed so that photographic copies could be sold to designers, craftsmen and students, and also filed in the Museum's library for study.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Bronze Knocker from the Soulages Collection (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Charles Thurston Thompson, 'Bronze Knocker from the Soulages Collection', albumen print, ca. 1857 |
| Physical description | A sepia-coloured photograph of an ornate metal door knocker with five figures, including two women in an embrace |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Bronze door knocker. Italian work. circa 1560' (pencil, lower left mount) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Charles Thurston Thompson was the first official photographer employed by the South Kensington Museum. He was appointed in 1856 but photographed at the Museum in 1853. His subject here is a bronze door knocker. Such objects were photographed so that photographic copies could be sold to designers, craftsmen and students, and also filed in the Museum's library for study. |
| Associated objects | |
| Other number | 9981 - Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 33497 |
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| Record created | September 30, 2013 |
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