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Victoria and Albert Museum
Catalogue reference: FHS/4/1/146a
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This record is a file about the Victoria and Albert Museum dating from 1916.
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- FHS/4/1/146a
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Title (The name of the record)
- Victoria and Albert Museum
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916
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Description (What the record is about)
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Includes:
-two letters exchanged between Finberg and M.A. Kennedy, Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 22 December 1915 and 6 February 1916, concerning obtaining images of works of art from the National Portrait Exhibitions of 1866, 1867, and 1868
-handwritten list of works of art requested, undated (10pp)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file
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Open for research. Readers must fill in an 'Reader Agreement Form' which outlines the reading room rules and conditions concerning privacy and Data Protection
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Alexander Joseph Finberg (1886ñ1939) was an art historian and expert on the artist J.M.W. Turner.
Finberg was educated at City of London College, Kings College London, and the Lambeth School of Art. In 1905, he was commissioned to catalogue and organise the paintings in the Turner Bequest, and this resulted in the publication of the Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest in 1909. In 1911 he co-founded the Walpole Society
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/07125519-d2fe-4b2d-a64a-0ace7d9c63fa/
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FHS/4/1
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Victoria and Albert Museum