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Description: | Sculpture. Cast of the bust of HRH Prince Albert. / Artist unidentified; Victoria & Albert Museum cast workshops, from a mould by the firm of D Brucciani & Co Limited. - 1951. - Plaster; 2ft 6ins high. - Numbered 613 VAM [old museum cast catalogue number; last listed January 1939, for public sale at �2.17s.6d]. - Made February - April 1951 for centrepiece display in the Science Museum's Festival of Britain exhibition, "Past and Future" set on a plinth and surrounded by plants and significant objects [behind above bust, an architectural drawing, impression of the future: the Museum site extended to Queensgate]. - Portrait bust, about life size, in neoclassical drapery with an Order (Star and Garter?) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | sculpture portrait bust | Temporal: | 1951 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Victoria & Albert Museum | Identifier: | 1951-548 | Go to resource |
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