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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 1–20 of 913 objects

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Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen’s rooms at 38 Brunswick Square, London

Vanessa Bell
c1911–12

Black and white negative of Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy, Marjorie Strachey and Virginia Woolf sitting on the beach at Studland Bay, Dorset

Vanessa Bell
1910

Black and white negative of Roger Fry taken in Guildford, Surrey

Vanessa Bell
1911

Black and white negative of Adrian Stephen and Virginia Woolf at Fritham House, Lyndhurst, New Forest

Vanessa Bell
1900

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell posing for an illustration for Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell seated behind a large pot at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1932

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell wearing a bathing suit and a headscarf whilst playing with a doll’s house and cat in the garden at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1932

Black and white negative of Vanessa Bell sitting with her arm around Angelica Bell at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1932

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell wearing a bathing suit and headscarf while holding a cat and standing in the fountain at Charleston, Firle, Sussex

Vanessa Bell
1932

Black and white negative of Angelica Bell dressed as the Russian princess from Virginia Woolf’s book titled ‘Orlando: A Biography’ taken at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
1928

Black and white negative of Duncan Grant seated on the verandah at La Bergere in Cassis, near Marseilles, France

Vanessa Bell
[1938]
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