Valley of the Mole, Surrey

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Artist/Maker	Howlett, Robert (photographer)
Place of origin	Surrey (photographed)

Albumen print from collodion negative; 19thC; Howlett, Robert. Valley of the Mole, Surrey c.1855

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Categories	Images Online Photographs
Object type	Photograph
Title	Valley of the Mole, Surrey (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Albumen print from collodion negative
Brief description	Albumen print from collodion negative; 19thC; Howlett, Robert. Valley of the Mole, Surrey c.1855
Gallery label	(10/2012) This photograph was among the first to enter the V&A’s collection. It was bought in 1856 by Henry Cole, the Museum’s first director, from one of the earliest photography exhibitions, the Exhibition of Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of the Society of Water Colour Painters. (11 03 2014) Gallery 100, ‘History of photography’, 2012-2013, label texts : Robert Howlett (1831 – 58) Valley of the Mole, Surrey 1855 This photograph was among the first to enter the V&A’s collection. It was bought in 1856 by Henry Cole, the Museum’s first director, from one of the earliest photography exhibitions, the Exhibition of Photographs and Daguerreotypes at the Gallery of the Society of Water Colour Painters. Albumen print from collodion negative Museum no. 36.353
Subjects depicted	Wagon Pond Trees
Place depicted	Surrey
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	36353

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Record created	January 9, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O72749/valley-of-the-mole-surrey-photograph-howlett-robert/

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