Bill Smale with prize winning onions
Photograph
October 1974 (photographed)
October 1974 (photographed)
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Black and white photograph of a man in a jacket, tie and cardigan, stood next to a table of carefully arranged onions at a flower and horticultural show.
Object details
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| Title | Bill Smale with prize winning onions (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Photograph by James Ravilious. 'Bill Smale with prize winning onions'. St. Giles in the Wood, North Devon, October 1974, gelatin silver print |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of a man in a jacket, tie and cardigan, stood next to a table of carefully arranged onions at a flower and horticultural show. |
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| Content description | Beaford Arts, a village arts centre in Devon, commissioned Ravilious to contribute images to the Beaford Archive, intended as a photographic record of a life in the largely unspoilt but vulnerable country area within a 10-mile radius of Beaford. During the course of seventeen years Ravilious took over 80,000 black and white images of many aspects of life in the area between the Taw and Torridge rivers of North Devon, including landscapes, studies of farmers at work, special occasions and ancient traditions in the local towns and villages. |
| Marks and inscriptions | Bill Smale with prize winning onions. St. Giles in the Wood, N Devon Oct 1974. James Ravilious, Beaford Archive (The inscription is in the photographer's handwriting) |
| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Object history | This photograph was acquired by the Royal Photographic Society in connection with the retrospective exhibition of James Ravilious's work held at the RPS in Bath in 1997, titled 'An English Eye'. |
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| Other number | 2003-5001/2/24115 - Science Museum Group accession number |
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| Accession number | RPS.1707-2017 |
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| Record created | July 25, 2017 |
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