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  • Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell

°Ú³¦.1870–1947±Õ

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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
°Ú³¦.1870–1947±Õ
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 21–40 of 913 objects

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

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Clive Bell and Beatrice Mayor seated outside reading at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant and Quentin Bell carrying Quentin’s ‘Monument’ from the claypit by the pond to the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant seated holding a kitten with Judith Stephen and Angelica Bell at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1923

Black and white negative of Judith Stephen, Quentin Bell, Duncan Grant and Angelica Bell playing on the lawn in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1923

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell wearing a gown and seated by the pond at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell and Quentin Bell seated by the pond at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell and Angelica Bell acting out a scene from an unknown play in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Julian Bell, Janie Bussey, Quentin Bell and Angelica Bell in fancy dress acting out a scene from a play about Damon and Phyllis in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell in the pond as Ophelia at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1935

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as Ellen Terry standing in a room at 8 Fitzroy Street, London

Vanessa Bell
1934

Black and white negative of Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy and Clive Bell all seated in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1933

Black and white negative of Roger Fry working on a mosaic

Vanessa Bell
date not known

Black and white negative of Edward Wolfe and Osbert Sitwell at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1919

Black and white negative of Eve Younger in fancy dress in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant dressed as a Spanish dancer standing in front of a painted screen in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell, Quentin Bell, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell and Eve Younger in the folly at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1936

Black and white negative of Quentin Bell and Angelica Bell both kneeling down in front of a loom in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
³¦1936–7

Black and white negative of Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1922

Black and white negative of a group seated in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
[1933]
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