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Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

ڳ.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
ڳ.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 221–240 of 913 objects

Black and white negative of Eddy Playfair, Quentin Bell and Janie Bussy standing in front of a door outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1931

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seen from profile in Rome, Italy

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell with Duncan Grant, seated and looking at the camera in Rome, Italy

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell close up, wearing a long headscarf at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1930

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed in a white gown, posing on a velvet couch with an open book in a studio at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1937

Black and white negative of Julian, Vanessa and Quentin Bell with one of Quentin’s statues

Vanessa Bell
1931

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell seated while holding Quentin’s son Julian in Newcastle

Vanessa Bell
1952

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seen in profile looking down, in Rome, Italy

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell and Duncan Grant in the Folly at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1927

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed in a long white gown, holding a sculpted head outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Clive Bell seated while smoking a pipe with Lytton Strachey outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1927

Black and white negative of Leonard Woolf wearing a hat, outdoors in Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1927]

Black and white negative of William Chappell standing with Lydia Lopokova (Keynes) wearing a headscarf outdoors at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1932

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell wearing a headscarf, sitting with her arms resting on two pedestals in Guildford, Surrey

Vanessa Bell
1914

Black and white negative of Angelica and Quentin Bell, wearing a hat outdoors at Villa Corsica, Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
[1927]

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed in drapery, seated on a box outdoors in Rome, Italy

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Julian Bell dressed in a winter coat with a scarf, standing in front of the garden wall at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica and Vanessa Bell by the garden wall at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1927

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell wearing a vest, seated at the table in the garden at “La Bergere”, Cassis, near Marseille, France

Vanessa Bell
1929

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell wearing a cardigan standing by the garden wall at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1927–8
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