Photograph
c. 1936 (photographed)
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A black and white photograph of a detail of the top capital of a column with elaborate carvings of animals mounted on green card.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Photograph by John Piper, 'Lathbury, Buckinghamshire, church, capital in south arcade with amphisbaena', gelatin silver print, c. 1936 |
| Physical description | A black and white photograph of a detail of the top capital of a column with elaborate carvings of animals mounted on green card. |
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| Credit line | Purchased from Mr. John Piper, 1936 |
| Object history | This is one of 26 photographs acquired from the English painter and printmaker John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903-1992). Piper, working with the poet John Betjeman, produced them as part of his work editing the Shell Guides, a series of 20th-century guidebooks on the counties of Britain aimed at the new breed of car-driving tourist. This particular group of photographs features details of Romanesque architecture throughout Britain. |
| Bibliographic reference | Pih, Darren John Piper London: Pavilion, 2017. |
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| Accession number | 2498-1936 |
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| Record created | May 8, 2017 |
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