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Walter Crane with students and teachers of the Royal College of Art

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Walter Crane with students and teachers of the Royal College of Art

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1900
8 in. x 11 3/4 in. (202 mm x 300 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 1987
Photographs Collection
NPG x28069

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  • Walter Crane (1845-1915), Illustrator, designer, painter and socialist. Sitter in 17 portraits. Identify

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  • Rolley, Katrina; Aish, Caroline, Fashion in Photographs 1900-1920, 1992, p. 32

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Current affairs

The Conservatives return to power, after the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury calls a general election, known as the 'Khaki election', on the back of huge jingoistic support for the Boer War.
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is founded from a coalition of socialist groups; they win two seats in the 1900 election and Ramsay Macdonald is appointed secretary. The Labour politician Keir Hardie is also returned to Parliament for Merthyr Tydfilin Wales.

Art and science

German physicist Max Planck proposes the concept of the quantum theory. Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is published. In the text, Freud outlines his theory of dream analysis, crucial to the study of the unconscious, and introduces key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the Ego.
The Paris International Exhibition, attended by more than 50 million people and including over 76,000 exhibitors, marks the heyday of Art Nouveau.

International

In China the Boxer rebellion takes place. The Boxers were anti-imperialist and against foreign influence in trade, religion, politics and technology in the final years of the Manchu rule. The Boxers invade Beijing, killing 230 foreigners and Chinese Christians. The rebellion is suppressed by a multinational coalition of 20,000 troops, with China being forced to pay large war reparations, contributing to growing nationalist resentment against the Qing dynasty.

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C. Wilk

09 May 2018, 18:13

The image was clearly taken in front of what was then the facade of the V&A lecture theatre building, which is now on the north side of the V&A garden (the building remains exactly as it was). The date you propose is too late as Crane was only briefly Principal of the Royal College of Art (which had only recently changed its name from National Art Training School). Various sources online and published (for the latter see below) give these dates as 1898-99. Even if he ceased to be Principal, he carried on as a member of the Advisory Council of the Board of Education, which 'directly governed the Royal College on behalf o the Board' but also had an advisory role in relation to the V&A Museum, which he was still undertaking in 1901 according to Advisory Council documents in the V&A Registry.

My colleague Jenny Lister, Curator in the Textiles and Fashion Collection of the V&A, has suggested that the clothing dates c.1900.