Bankside Gallery
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1744 BANKSIDE |
Held at | : Bankside Gallery Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.banksidegallery.com/ › |
Full title | : Bankside Gallery |
Date(s) | : 1980-present |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 120 boxes |
Name of creator(s) | : Bankside Gallery Charitable Limited Company |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Bankside Gallery Charitable Limited Company was formed in 1980 by the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE). These two societies had a close association and had shared premises since 1888, and also had members in common. In 1980, the lease on their current premises - 26 Conduit St, London, expired, and the Societies transferred to the Bankside site.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Bankside Gallery comprising: committee minutes, financial records, administrative records, files on exhibitions held at the Gallery, 1980-present; and press cutting collection 1980-2002.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
By appointment. Bontact the Archivist in the first instance, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton St, Blackfriars, London SE1 9JH. 3.4.2 Conditions governing reproduction: At the discretion of the Archivist
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Archivist
Finding aids:
The material is uncatalogued.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Material generated by the Gallery and held in situ.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, also held at Bankside Gallery.
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; The business of watercolour, a guide to the archives of the Royal Watercolour Society, Simon Fenwick and Greg Smith, (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997). Compiled by Alison Field as part of the London Signpost Survey Project.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
August 2003
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