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As well as being crucial records of the history of the V&A, and an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia, these photographs are also significant artefacts in the history of the art of photography.\r\n","physicalDescription":"A photograph of a print mounted with printed label description showing a group of individuals gathered at the edge of a body of water looking at a sculpture.  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The Prince is viewing the Model from a hole which was dug in order that the eye of the spectator should be brought to the right level.  The background presents the Sheepshanks Gallery now about to be altered, and the Iron Museum now removed.  Instead of the statue of the Queen surmounting the monument as in the sketch, it was the will of Heaven that the Prince's own statue should be there.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph, 'Experiments with the Model of the Memorial of the Exhibition of 1851, Erected in the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens before the Design was Settled by H.R.H. the Prince Consort', western side of the Sheepshanks Gallery, Prince Albert, Henry Cole and Francis Fowke inspecting John Durham's model, print after the watercolour by Anthony Stannus, albumen print, ca. 1861","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"South Kensington Museum","id":"x32782"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Henry Cole","id":"N2131"},{"text":"Prince Albert","id":"N1977"}],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Anthony Carey Stannus","id":"A7531"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Museums","id":"AAT5768"},{"text":"Monuments","id":"AAT6958"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["71746"],"accessionNumberNum":"71746","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Negative number (V&A Archive Guard Book reference)","id":"THES251758"},"number":"9344 (MA/32/27)"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}