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  • Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

[c.1870–1947]

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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
Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell
Date
[c.1870–1947]
Description
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.
Reference
TGA 9020

Showing 461–480 of 913 objects

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant wearing a hat, seated on a wall in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seated in front of a tree, holding a wooden wine case in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seated in front of a tree, holding a wooden wine case in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of a group of men working on a vineyard in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of three unidentified males next to a cart on a vineyard in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant wearing a suit, seated cross-legged, indoors at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant wearing a suit, seated cross-legged with his hands on his thighs, indoors at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of an unidentified group of males standing on and next to a horse-drawn cart in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell wearing a robe with Angelica Bell standing with her hands inside her pockets, outdoors in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of two unidentified males, one standing whilst the other is on a horse-drawn cart holding a large jug by a barrel in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of a horse attached to an unseen cart in front of a field in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant leaning on a window sill whilst drawing at Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell playing the recorder behind an open window at La Bergere Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell holding a recorder behind an open window at La Bergere, Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1938

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell holding a camera whilst kneeling down in front of a large vase, outdoors at La Bergere, Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative from below of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell wearing hats, standing on a balcony at La Bergere Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell wearing a hat standing underneath a pergola at La Bergere, Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of unidentified figures in the landscape in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of two unidentified men with a horse-drawn cart in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]

Black and white negative of Angelica, Vanessa and Quentin Bell seated outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
[1922–4]
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