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Book Review
Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1183–1185
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Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
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Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy By Paul B. Franklin. 234 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Marsilio Arte, Venice, 2024), £30. ISBN 979–12–5463–138–6. | :
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28. Marcel Duchamp with an incomplete example of Boîte-envalise at Peggy Guggenheim’s townhouse, New York, in August 1942. (From Time Magazine, 7th September 1942).
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29. Rotorelief no.5 – poisson japonais from the series Rotoreliefs (disques optiques), by Marcel Duchamp. 1935. Cardboard disk printed recto and verso in colour offset lithography, diameter 20 cm. (© Association Marcel Duchamp; private collection).
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30. Peigne (Comb), by Marcel Duchamp. 1964, replica of 1916 original readymade. Steel comb with painted inscription, 16.5 by 3 by 0.2 cm.; box, 18.5 by 5.7 by 1.8 cm. (© Association Marcel Duchamp; private collection).
Book Review
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1241-1243
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Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
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The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 By James Meyer, with contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith and Andrew Solomon. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–691–23617–9. | :
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7. Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, by Walker Evans. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 24.3 by 19.2 cm. (Private collection).
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8. After Walker Evans: 4, by Sherrie Levine. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 12.8 by 9.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Stills from Left side / right side, by Joan Jonas. 1972. Black-and-white video, duration 8 minutes 50 seconds. (Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York).
Article
Denis Wirth-Miller’s studio collection
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 976-87
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Günther, Katharina (Günther, Katharina)
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1 and 2. Denis Wirth-Miller’s studio, Wivenhoe. 2014. (Photographs Ben Harrison).
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10. Study for ‘Dog in movement’, by Denis Wirth-Miller. c.1953. Oil on canvas. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco).
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11. Dog; walking; mastiff. Dread, by Eadweard Muybridge. (From E. Muybridge: Animal Locomotion, Philadelphia 1887, plate 704).
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12. Dog, by Francis Bacon. 1952. Oil on canvas, 198.1 by 137.2 cm. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2023; photograph Perry Ogden; Tate Britain, London).
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13. Part of the floor of Francis Bacon’s studio at 7 Reece Mews, London. 1998. Photograph by Perry Ogden. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS / Artimage 2023).
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14. Francis Bacon working material, torn-out page, folded, attached to support and inserted in plastic bag, of ‘Pugilist. Striking a blow’ from E. Muybridge: The Human Figure in Motion, London 1901 (possibly), plate 63. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2023; photograph Perry Ogden; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane).
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15. Detail of Fig.14, showing the folded page and two merged frames.
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16. Study from the Human Body (Man Turning on Light), 1973, by Francis Bacon. 1973. Oil and alkyd paint on canvas, 200.6 by 148.4 cm. (© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2023; photograph Perry Ogden; private collection).
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3. Denis Wirth-Miller, working material, page from Maxick (Max Sick): Muscle Control or Body Development by Will-Power, London 1949, pp.93– 94, Wivenhoe 112, 22 by 13.5 cm. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco).
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4. Denis Wirth-Miller, working material, cut and mounted blackand- white photographic reproduction showing two United Nations soldiers in a trench, from S. Simmons: ‘Pusan Beach–Head’, Picture Post (5th August 1950), p.15, no.724v. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco).
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5. Denis Wirth-Miller, working material, fragment of a page, mounted on carboard, showing a single frame from the series ‘The Walk’, ‘Some phases in the Walk of a Dog from series 14’, from E. Muybridge: Animals in Motion, London 1899, p.63, Wivenhoe 49, 15.5 by 15.5 cm. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco) .
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6. Denis Wirth-Miller, working material, cut-out image mounted on cardboard, from ‘The Defense of Europe’, TIME: The Weekly Newsmagazine, Atlantic Overseas Edition 55:2 (April 1950), p.15, Wivenhoe 106, 25 by 18 cm. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco).
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7. Walking man, by Denis Wirth-Miller. c.1954. Oil on canvas, 130 by 99 cm. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; private collection).
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8. Denis Wirth-Miller, working material, fragment of a page mounted on cardboard, from TIME: The Weekly Newspaper Atlantic Overseas Edition (13th June 1949), p.16, Wivenhoe 174, 25.5 by 20.5 cm. (© The Estate of Denis Wirth-Miller; courtesy Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation / MB Art Collection, Monaco).
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9. Reconstitution of Francis Bacon’s studio at 7 Reece Mews, London, at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. (Photograph © Leonard de Selva; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 952–67
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Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)
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1. Sir Stanley Spencer; Sydney Spencer; Gilbert Spencer; William ‘Pa’ Spencer, by Philip Edward Morrell. 1914. Vintage snapshot print, 6.1 by 10.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Postcard of a corbel in Exeter Cathedral sent by Desmond Chute to Stanley Spencer, 21st June 1916. (John Spencer collection; JS 32).
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11. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 32).
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12. St George, by Donatello. (Frontispiece of H. Rea: Donatello: Il maestro di chi sanno, London 1900).
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13. Postcard of Gentile Bellini’s Finding of the True Cross sent by Henry Lamb to Stanley Spencer. (John Spencer collection; JS 50).
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14. Postcard of Giotto’s Joachim and the shepherds sent by Jas Wood to Stanley Spencer, 17th October 1927. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 82).
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15. Reverse of Fig.14.
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16. Postcard of Pieter Bruegel’s Autumn sent by Gilbert Spencer to Stanley Spencer, 1934. (John Spencer collection; JS 82).
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2. Stanley Spencer’s postcard album open to showing a Virgin or saint holding a book, Tonnerre stone, c.1390–1400, Musée national du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny, Paris (inv. Cl.18931), and the Court of Pan, by Luca Signorelli, formerly in the collection of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 4 and 5).
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3. Letter from Stanley Spencer to the Raverats illustrating the shape of the reliefs on the campanile of Florence Cathedral. 12th April 1913. (Tate Archive, TGA 8116/21).
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4. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Andrea Pisano’s Creation of Eve from the campanile of Florence Cathedral. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 13).
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5. Postcard of the Entombment of Christ, by Donatello, sent from Gwen Darwin to Stanley Spencer, 11th March 1914. (John Spencer collection; JS 6).
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6. Reverse of UCL 51.
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7. Three postcards superimposed to illustrate the west wall of the apse of S. Francesco, Arezzo, by Piero della Francesca, sent by Gwen Raverat to Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, 25th March 1914. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 53, 50 and 51).
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8. Roger Fry’s glass slides of Piero della Francesca’s Death of Adam. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, boxes 19 and 32).
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9. Reproduction of the Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio, from The Masterpieces of Carpaccio and Giorgione published by Gowans & Gray, 1911.
Article
The Bayeux Tapestry photographed
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 494-501
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Ravilious, Ella (Ravilious, Ella)
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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).
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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).
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14. The Bayeux Tapestry being photographed in storage, Bayeux, 2017. (La Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie 2017; photograph Antoine Cazin and Guillaume Debout).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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)
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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).
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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).
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5. The Bayeux Tapestry on display in the Galerie Mathilde, Bayeux. Postcard, c.1904. (Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux).
Article
Aby Warburg and the Volksheim exhibitions of 1902 and 1905
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 362-373
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Marchand, Eckart (Marchand, Eckart)
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1. Aby Warburg in Florence, c.1902. Unknown photographer. (Photograph The Warburg Institute).
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10. Panel 5 of the Geburtstagsparade, Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, Hamburg. Unknown photographer. June 1927. (© The Warburg Institute).
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11. Plate 1 of Der Tod des Orpheus. Bilder zu dem Vortrag über Dürer und die Italienische Antike [. . .], by Aby Warburg. Unknown photographer. October 1905. (Photograph The Warburg Institute)
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2. Sketch of a display panel for an exhibition of portraits at the Volksheim, Hamburg, by Aby Warburg. 1902. Pen and ink on paper, 33.8 by 21.5 cm. (Warburg Institute Archive, London, III.60.4, fol.19; © The Warburg Institute).
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3. Sketch of a display panel and a list of proposed sections for an exhibition of portraits at the Volksheim, Hamburg, by Aby Warburg. 1902. Pen and ink on paper, 32.6 by 21 cm. (Warburg Institute Archive, London, III.60.4, fol.9v; © The Warburg Institute).
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4. Detail of a sheet of preparatory notes for an exhibition of portraits at the Volksheim, Hamburg, by Aby Warburg. 1902. Pen and ink on paper, 33.8 by 21.5 cm. (Warburg Institute Archive, London, III.60.4, fol.2r; © The Warburg Institute).
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5. The Reading Room of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, Hamburg, with an exhibition on Ovid. Unknown photographer. 1927. (Photograph The Warburg Institute).
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6. An unnumbered panel of the so-called Penultimate Version of the Mnemosyne Picture Atlas, showing the complete panel with stand, by Aby Warburg. September 1929. (Warburg Institute Archive, London, III. 106.4, B; © The Warburg Institute).
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7. Panel 4 of Geburtstagsparade at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, Hamburg, by Aby Warburg. Unknown photographer. June 1927. (© The Warburg Institute).
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8. Three panels of the Ovid exhibition at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, Hamburg, by Aby Warburg. Unknown photographer. January–February 1927. (Photograph The Warburg Institute).
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9. The Bibliothekarstag exhibition at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, Hamburg. Unknown photographer. April 1927. (Photograph The Warburg Institute).
Letter
NFTs
04/2022 | 1429 | 164
Pages: 332
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Jeffares, Neil (Jeffares, Neil)
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Editorial
Art in the age of digital reproduction
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 227
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Article
The ‘visual turn’ in copyright history and its relevance to art history
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1148-1157
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Author:
Cooper, Elena (Cooper, Elena)
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1. Photograph of Bianca by William Holman Hunt accompanying the copyright application dated 24th October 1906. (National Archives, London, COPY1/324).
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2. Photograph of The light of the world by William Holman Hunt accompanying the copyright application dated 20th January 1904. (National Archives, London, COPY1/211).
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3. Photograph of The Lady of Shalott by William Holman Hunt accompanying the copyright application dated 9th June 1905. (National Archives, London, COPY1/230).
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4. Photograph of The ship by William Holman Hunt accompanying the copyright application dated 24th October 1906. (National Archives, London, COPY1/324).
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5. Photograph of Master Hilary – the tracer by William Holman Hunt accompanying the copyright application dated 9th November 1906. (National Archives, London, COPY1/325).
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6. Master Hilary – the tracer, by William Holman Hunt. 1885(?), 1886–87. Oil on canvas, 122.2 by 66 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Isabel Agnes Cowper: Official Museum Photographer
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1120-1129
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Lederman, Erika (Lederman, Erika)
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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).
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10. Still life, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1880. Albumen print, 10 by 13.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.79790).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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4. Candlestick, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1870s. Albumen print, 10.5 by 8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.76635).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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