The archives of Prunella Clough

1880–1990s

Available online are key items which reflect the working methods and career of Prunella Clough. These include photographs used as source material and notebooks in which Clough recorded scenes and impressions which she drew on in her artwork. There are also some photographs of Clough at different ages and early illustrated letters to her father, Eric Clough-Taylor. Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner: Prunella Clough 1919–1999
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Anne Robin Banks, October 2004.
Reference: TGA 200511

196 objects in this collection

The archives of Prunella Clough

196 Objects

Title: Photographs taken by Prunella Clough as source material for artworks
Date: 1930–99
Description: This sub-series contains photographs taken by Clough as source material for artworks, including many early photographs of industrial sites and later photographs of London streets. The sub-series also contains postcards, including of Lowestoft, Walberswick, Southwold, and Great Yarmouth, which were also used as source material.
Reference: TGA 200511/4/3

196 objects in this collection

Showing 41–60 of 143 objects

Black and white photograph of a coal mine or quarry

Black and white photograph of an old industrial site, possibly a factory

Black and white photograph of warehouses and cranes

Black and white photograph of cranes

Black and white photograph of the side of a building, made out of or clad in corrugated iron

Black and white photograph of factories and docks

Black and white photograph of a gas tower, cranes, and docks

Black and white photograph of a gas tower and docks

Black and white photograph of trucks loaded with goods

Black and white photograph of the backs of warehouses or wharves

Black and white photograph of the side of a wooden hut with lengths of string or twine hung out to dry

Black and white photograph of a gas tower

Black and white photograph of a man at work on a barge in front of two cooling towers

Black and white photograph of a cooling tower

Black and white photograph of two cooling towers

Black and white photograph of a cat winding itself around a man’s legs

Black and white photograph of the arm of a crane extended over water

Black and white photograph of a flat bed lorry loaded with boxes and parcels with cranes in the background

Black and white photograph of a cooling tower

Black and white photograph of a piece of machinery partially covered by sand or debris

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