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Catalogue description Tate Gallery: Conservation: Papers
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| Reference: | TG 18 |
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| Title: | Tate Gallery: Conservation: Papers |
| Description: |
This series of records relates to conservation at the Tate Gallery and comprises:
Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference TG 18). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, see TG 18. |
| Date: | 1929-1966 |
| Related material: |
The Conservation Department keeps its own records of treatments which are always current and are retained permanently in the department. |
| Held by: | Tate Gallery Archive, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 6 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records have either been deposited in the archives via the Director's Office or had previously been transferred to Gallery Records or its predecessors. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Before 1953 the Gallery was largely dependent on commercial restorers but in 1953 the Conservation Department was set up with a Chief Restorer and an assistant. In 1964 the post of Chief Restorer became Keeper of the Conservation Department. Additional facilities have since been provided not only for the conservation of oil paintings but also for works on paper and sculpture. In 1969 a training programme for students was started under the auspices of the Department for Education and Science. |
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