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Creator:
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962
Title(s):

Album relating to frescoes by Frank Salisbury in Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta.

Published/Created:
1921.
Physical Description:
1 v. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA6813.I52 K6 1921+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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Copyright Status:
© The Artist
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
An album of autograph material, letterpress articles and ephemera relating to Frank Salisbury's frescoes for Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta, a building commissioned by Lord Curzon in 1903 and designed by the architect William Emerson. The album includes pencil diagrams of the fresco cycle settings, autograph and typed letters from Salisbury to the palace and the India office relating to the panels, blueprints, 3 albumen prints of the interior of the building, and other correspondence.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Colonial -- India -- Kolkata.
Art -- India.
Emerson, W. (William), 1843-1924.
Kolkata (India) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Memorials -- India -- Kolkata.
Mural painting and decoration.
Museum buildings -- India -- Kolkata.
Salisbury, Frank O. (Frank Owen), 1874-1962
Victoria Memorial (Museum : India)
Form/Genre:
Graphite drawings.
Clippings.
Blueprints.
Correspondence.
Albumen prints.
Photographs.
Contributors:
Victoria Memorial (Museum : India)
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