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Article
The Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 536-543
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Author:
Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, Great Britain / Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Photography Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 / Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria
subjects:
Museums / Collections, Public / Collections / Displays / Photography / Digital technology / Archives / Camera obscuras / women photographers / Daguerreotypes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The display of cameras at the entrance to the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2018. (Courtesy David Kohn Architects, London; photograph Will Pryce).
Attributed works:
10. Devotion, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1865. Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative, 22.8 by 27.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.45154).
Attributed works:
2. The Sir Elton John and David Furnish Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2018. (Courtesy David Kohn Architects, London; photograph Will Pryce).
Attributed works:
3. Architectural rendering of the Kusama Gallery (Room 98) in the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, designed by Gibson Thornley Architects (© Schmidt Massie).
Attributed works:
4. Architectural rendering of the Parasol Foundation Gallery (Room 97) in the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (© Gibson Thornley Architects).
Attributed works:
5. Self-portrait as walking woman with bag, 1979 Lima, Peru 2019 Los Angeles, CA, from the series 1979 contact negatives, by Tarrah Krajnak. 2019, printed in 2022. Cyanotype, 60.8 by 50.5 cm. (© Tarrah Krajnak; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; inv. no.PH.139-2023).
Attributed works:
6. Untitled, from the Black Balloon Archive, by Liz Johnson Artur. Chromogenic print, 50.8 by 61 cm. (© Liz Johnson Artur; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.PH.1209).
Attributed works:
7. The Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de Photographie at the South Kensington Museum, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1858. Albumen print from wet collodion negative, 29 by 33.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.2715-1913).
Attributed works:
8. Raphael Cartoon, The conversion of the proconsul also known as The blinding of Elymas, by Raphael, c.1515–16, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1858. Scan from a glass plate negative, 91.4 by 91.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.E.644-2017).
Attributed works:
9. Ancient ruins in the Canon de Chelle, New Mexico, by Timothy O’Sullivan. 1873. Albumen print, 20.1 by 27.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.PH.242-1979).
Article
The Bayeux Tapestry photographed
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 494-501
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Author:
Ravilious, Ella (Ravilious, Ella)
Subjects
artists:
Dossetter, Edward / Basire, James / Stothard, Charles Alfred / Cundall, Joseph / Hennell, Percy
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Arundel Society
patrons:
Cole, Henry, 1808-1882
subjects:
Photography / Photomechanical processes / Reproductions / Documentation
works:
Bayeux Tapestry
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Detail from a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Edward the Confessor, by the Leek Embroidery Society. 1885. Linen embroidered with wool, height 66 cm. (Reading Museum).
Attributed works:
12. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Harold and Edward the Confessor, by Percy Hennell. 1956. Colour transparency reproduced as a tipped-in etched print made by John Swain and Son Ltd., 25.5 by 23.5 cm. (From F. Stenton: The Bayeux Tapestry, London, 1957; Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
14. The Bayeux Tapestry being photographed in storage, Bayeux, 2017. (La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie 2017; photograph Antoine Cazin and Guillaume Debout).
Attributed works:
6. Glass-plate negative of a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing a brass joint of the display case with another section of the Tapestry in the background, by Edward Dossetter. 1872. 30.5 by 30.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, London, MA/90/9727).
Attributed works:
7. Glass internegative of a section of the Bayeux Tapestry wrapped round the edge of the display mount, marked up for cropping, probably by Joseph Cundall. 1872. 66 by 58.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, London, MA/90/9727NO).
Attributed works:
8. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing a house being burned. Hand-coloured photograph made from a negative by Edward Dossetter. 1872. Probably Albertype. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no.E.573:1 to 25-2005).
Attributed works:
9. Complete version of a hand-coloured photograph of the Bayeux Tapestry published by the Arundel Society, on its original stand. Probably Albertype, height 140 cm. (Courtesy Bonhams).
Western art unattributed:
1. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing news brought to William about Harold. England, 11th century. Wool embroidery on linen, height 50 cm. (Courtesy City of Bayeux, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) Normandie, Caen, University of Caen Normandie, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, and École nationale supérieure d’ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Caen; photograph La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie 2017).
Western art unattributed:
10. Lantern slide of a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry showing the speaker’s notes above the scene. c.1899. 9.3 by 30.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, London, MA90/20078 to 20084).
Western art unattributed:
13. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing Harold and his soldiers riding to Bosham. England, 11th century. Wool embroidery on linen, height 50 cm. (Courtesy City of Bayeux, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) Normandie, Caen, University of Caen Normandie, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, and École nationale supérieure d’ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Caen; photograph La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie 2017).
Western art unattributed:
2. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing news brought to William about Harold, a hand-coloured photograph made from a negative by Edward Dossetter. 1872. Probably Albertype. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. nos.E.573:1 to 25-2005)
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing news brought to William about Harold, by James Basire, after Charles Alfred Stothard. 1816–19. Hand-coloured engraving, 35 by 76 cm. (Society of Antiquaries of London).
Western art unattributed:
4. Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, showing news brought to William about Harold, by Josef Albert after a drawing commissioned by John Collingwood Bruce. Salt print, 15.4 by 13.2 cm. (From The Conquest of England, From Wace’s Poem of the Roman de Rou, transl. A. Malet, London 1860; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Bayeux Tapestry on display in the Galerie Mathilde, Bayeux. Postcard, c.1904. (Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux).
Book Review
Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862–1914)
03/2023 | 1440 | 165
Pages: 345-346
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Reviewer:
Gere, Charlotte (Gere, Charlotte)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Collections, Public / Collectors / Gifts / Bequests / Donors / Acquisitions / Decorative arts / Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 / Victorian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862–1914) By Julius Bryant. 176 pp. incl. 160 col. ills. (Lund Humphries and V&A Publishing, London, 2022), £35. ISBN 978–1–84822–618–0. | :
Article
Isabel Agnes Cowper: Official Museum Photographer
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1120-1129
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Author:
Lederman, Erika (Lederman, Erika)
Subjects
artists:
Cowper, Isabel Agnes
artists:
Thompson, Charles Thurston
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Cole, Henry, 1808-1882
subjects:
Photography / wet collodion photographic process / Museology / Archives / Reproductions / Printing plates / Printing presses / Art libraries / National Art Library, London, Great Britain
subjects:
women photographers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Cast of the head of Michelangelo’s David in the Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1881. Wet collodion negative on glass, approx. 30.5 by 25.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, London; negative no.11360).
Attributed works:
10. Still life, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1880. Albumen print, 10 by 13.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.79790).
Attributed works:
11. Illustration from A. Montalba: ‘Fortunes Favourite: or the very wonderful adventures of Pista, the swineherd’ in Fairy Tales from All Nations with Twenty-Four Illustrations by Richard Doyle, London 1849, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1840s. Wood engraving on India paper, 9 by 8.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.17787).
Attributed works:
12. Pourpoint and slashed silk waistcoat, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1873. Albumen print, 48.2 by 34.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.74943A).
Attributed works:
13. Brussel’s bobbin lace, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1876. Albumen print, 35.2 by 29.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc.no.76794A).
Attributed works:
2. Carved walnut wood frame with glass mirror, Italian, 16th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1891. Albumen print, 26.7 by 22.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.PH.113A-1891).
Attributed works:
3. Venetian mirror frame, carved and gilt, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1853. Albumen print, 20 by 25 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.33579).
Attributed works:
4. Candlestick, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1870s. Albumen print, 10.5 by 8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.76635).
Attributed works:
5. Pair of gloves, embroidered on the back. Spanish(?), end of 16th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1873. Albumen print, 23.2 by 16.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.74710).
Attributed works:
6. Construction of Trajan’s column, with choir screen from the Cathedral of St John, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, in background, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1873. Albumen print, 28.2 by 21.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.73676).
Attributed works:
7. South Kensington Museum, interior staircase, Royal College of Science, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1872. Albumen print, 24.5 by 19.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.73381).
Attributed works:
8. South Kensington Museum quadrangle: the doorway and doors of the lecture theatre building, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1875. Albumen print, 23.4 by 16 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.75957).
Attributed works:
9. Twelve-sided vessel, gold, Byzantine Gothic, late 5th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper, from The Treasure of Petrossa and Other Goldsmith’s Work From Roumania: A Series of Twenty Photographs, London 1869. 1868. Albumen print, 20 by 23.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.65871).
Article
The ‘Martinoff Drawings’: a quest for Russian art at the South Kensington Museum
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1006-1015
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Author:
Hardiman, Louise (Hardiman, Louise)
Subjects
art literature:
Smith, Cecil Harcourt / Newmarch, Rosa / Cunliffe-Owen, Philip / Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 / Maskell, Alfred / Cripps, Wilfred Joseph / Smith, Robert Henry Soden / Solntsev, Fedor / Uvarov, Aleksey / Wyatt, Matthew Digby
artists:
Martynov, Nikolai Avenirovich
dates:
1850-1899 / 1860-1869 / 1870-1879 / 1880-1889 / 1890-1899
media:
Drawings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
places:
Great Britain / London / Russia / Saint Petersburg / Moscow
subjects:
Art museums / Collecting / Collections / Collections, Public / Collections, Private / Acquisitions / Commissions / Patronage / Decorative arts / Ornament / Design / Study and teaching / Exhibitions / Encyclopedias / Catalogues / Copies / Reproductions / Casts (sculpture) / Politics / Diplomacy / Crimean War (1853-1856) / Nationalism / Correspondence / Archives / Russian / Crosses / Chalices / Dress / Churches / Style / Influence / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Folk art / Religious art / Exoticism / Surveys / Exposition Universelle de Paris (1867) / Curators
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Copy of decoration in a sixteenth-century manuscript of the Gospels in the Patriarchal Library, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 39.3 by 26.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.b: 8881).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of The mitre of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 30.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8854).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Two pairs of eyeglasses, and cases for same, of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 25.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8858).
Attributed works:
12. A saccos (dalmatic) of the Metropolitan Dionysy, made by order of Tsar Ivan Vasilievich (1530–1584) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, 16th century (second half), by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 38 by 26.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8873).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Church of the Holy Trinity, Ostankino, near Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.9 by 24.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8845).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of The Panagia of the Patriarch Job (1586–1605) in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 25.4 by 36.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8842).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of A halo from the image of the Virgin in the sacristy of the Convent of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, Staraya Russa, Novgorod, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 35.5 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum; London; no.M.10.a: 8861).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of The Pastoral Staff of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 28.5 by 35.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.a: 8855).
Attributed works:
7. A censer at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin, Serpukhov, Province of Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 37 by 28.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, no.M.10.a: 8849).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of The klobouk (headdress of the Greek friars), of the Patriarch Nikon (1652–1658), in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 33 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8853).
Attributed works:
9. A sash of the Patriarchs, in the treasury of the Patriarch, Moscow, by Nikolai Martynov. c.1880–81. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.8 by 22.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; no.M.10.b: 8877).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Reliquary or triple cross, after a seventeenth-century original at the Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow, at the time of reproduction. c.1881. Electrotype, 32.4 by 16.5 by 3.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction. By Mari Lending
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 610-611
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Reviewer:
Wells, Matthew (Wells, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 / Barringer, Tim / Albers, Josef / Rudolph, Paul
art literature:
Fergusson, James / Robinson, Edward
artists:
Sachy, Alexandre de / Arrondelle, Eugène / Ghiberti, Lorenzo
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Sculpture / Plaster / Architectural components
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris, France / British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Europe
subjects:
Casts (sculpture) / Reproductions / Copies / Originality / Museology / Curators / Restoration (process) / Art market / Cultural property / Colonialism / Damage to works of art
works:
Bronze doors (Baptistry, Florence) / Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
6. The twelth-century gallery in the Musée de sculpture comparée, Paris. A cast of the Erechtheion caryatid from the British Museum, London, is juxtaposed with the ‘smiling angel’ from Reims Cathedral. From P. F. J. Marcou, Album du Musée de Sculpture Comparée, vol. 2 (Paris, 1897).