Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

[c.1870–1947]

Available online are a large quantity of photographic negatives belonging to, and taken by, Vanessa Bell from the early twentieth century to the 1950s. Many of the photographs show her family and friends, including key figures within the Bloomsbury Group, both posing for the camera and also during carefree moments at her home, Charleston Farmhouse.

Collection Owner: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to the Tate Archive by Angelica Garnett, the loose negatives in 1981 and the albums in 1988 and 1992.
Reference: TGA 9020

913 objects in this collection

Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

913 Objects
- Photographic negatives belonging to Vanessa Bell
  
  913 Objects

Title: Photographic negatives belonging to Vanessa Bell
Date: 1898–1953
Description: Includes photographic negatives, belonging to, and taken by, Vanessa Bell. These negatives, the prints of which can be found within the photograph albums kept by Vanessa Bell (See TGA 9020/1-10), show her with family and friends, including key figures within the Bloomsbury Group such as Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes. The images are a mixture of family portraits, nudes and studies, with most photographs taken during carefree moments at Charleston.
Reference: TGA 9020/11

913 objects in this collection

Showing 101–120 of 913 objects

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Angus Davidson looking at a tortoise, seated on the lawn at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Eddy Playfair lying on the lawn by a small pond at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant in front of a pond at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of an unidentified man outdoors at [Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex]

Black and white negative of Julian Bell wearing a hat outdoors at [Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex or Blean, near Canterbury, Kent]

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell seated on a chair outside with a nurse holding him at Cleeve House, Seend

Black and white negative of Julian and Quentin Bell in Perambulators with their nurses in Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London

Black and white negative of Sydney Waterlow standing outdoors at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell holding Quentin Bell in her arms while Julian Bell leans against a brick wall at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell outdoors at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Quentin and Julian Bell outdoors with a nurse and a dog at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell playing outdoors at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen and Leonard Woolf in the snow at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of John Maynard Keynes looking up at Vanessa Bell as she poses in a window at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of a group with children outdoors at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative labelled on the envelope as Molly McCarthy, and as Vanessa Bell on the photograph, at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen, Virginia Woolf and an unidentified male outdoors

Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen, Virginia Woolf and Karen Stephen

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant, Clive Bell and Simon Bussy

Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen, Marjorie Strachey and Leonard Woolf outdoors in their winter coats at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

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