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: 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

913 objects in this collection

Showing 481–500 of 913 objects

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell wearing a headscarf seated on the ground with Angelica Bell seated on her lap at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Quentin, Angelica and Julian Bell at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seated with Nelly Boxall, Lottie Hope and Nelly Brittain standing around her at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell seated in front of a table, holding a vase with flowers and Duncan Grant standing, outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant in close up, wearing a bow tie in front of a window at Bosham, West Sussex

Black and white negative of a group at a picnic in High and Over, Seaford

Black and white negative of Julian Bell holding hands with Jessie Etchells while Frederick Etchells stands to one side smoking a pipe at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Jessie Etchells seated in front of an open door holding Julian Bell while Quentin Bell lies down on a pillow at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Fredericks Etchells holding a dog withJessie Etchells and Julian Bell seated to one side at Asheham, Beddingham, Sussex

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant wearing a scarf on his head whilst standing in front of the house at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson seated with Duncan Grant and E.M. Forster standing behind them in the walled garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Black and white negative of a painting of tennis players at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Black and white negative of Adrian and Karen Stephen standing outdoors

Black and white negative of Sophie and Maud wearing aprons whilst standing, outdoors at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Black and white negative of tennis players painted on shutters in Adrian Stephen’s room at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Black and white negative of a very faint pointillism mural

Black and white negative of a still life painting by Vanessa Bell

Black and white negative of a painting on a shutter in Adrian Stephen’s room at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Black and white negative of a painting by Adrian Stephen on a panel at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Black and white negative of a painting of tennis players in Adrian Stephen’s room at 38 Brunswick Square, London

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