Henry Cole's European Travels and the Building of the South Kensington Museum in the 1850s
| Author(s): |
Christopher Whitehead
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| Medium: | journal article |
| Language(s): | English |
| Published in: | Architectural History, 2005, v. 48 |
| Page(s): | 207-234 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0066622x00003786 |
| Abstract: |
In January 1859, Henry Cole, the first Director of the South Kensington Museum (from 1899 known as the Victoria and Albert Museum) was in Rome, commissioning the photographer Pietro Dovizielli to produce photographs of buildings in the capital which Cole considered ‘suggestive' and ‘picturesque'. |
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