| |
J.D. Burton
South Kensington Museum, North Court, south-west corner, showing cast of Trajan's column
[London Series]
1868
Stereoview
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession number: 60739
LL/119760
Photographs and photographers were present from the very beginning of the V&A's history and the Museum has an extensive collection of images from the 1850s through to the present which documents the construction and development of the V&A and the South Kensington site.
Originally collected by the National Art Library as part of a programme to record works of art, architecture and design in the interest of public education, these topographic and architectural views were valued as records and as source material for students of architecture and design. As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography.
| |
LuminousLint 
@LuminousLint