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Sarah Beattie

I'm a Cataloguer in the Word and Image department, working on making our vast collection more accessible to the public. I love the variety of objects that I come across in my work, and look forward to sharing my favourites on the blog.

Museum life

In conversation with Kerry Hyndman, Book Cover Award winner 2022

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Museum life

In conversation with Gérard Dubois, Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year 2022

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Caring for our collections

Recording Rome: The John Henry Parker Collection

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Caring for our collections

Going Underground: Smeaton’s Photographs of the Roman Catacombs

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News and Updates

Fifty shades of hay: the sketchbook of George Robert Lewis

I recently catalogued an unassuming brown leather sketchbook which turned out to contain a wealth of beautiful drawings documenting agricultural work in the British countryside,...

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East London in pictures: Arthur Villiers’ gift from the Gardner Collection

With the announcement that a new V&A site is planned for the Olympic Park in Stratford, it seems timely that I have just finished cataloguing a set of more than 400...

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The owls are not what they seem…

While on the lookout for spooky creatures to blog about for Halloween I noticed something curious – why are there so many owls in the Word and Image collection? It soon...

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Living the high life in Hackney

  This colourful print of a hot-air balloon flight caught my eye while I was cataloguing a collection of prints and drawings relating to Hackney and other East London...

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Unsung Artists : May Morris (1862-1938)

One of the best things about working on the Factory project is the range of different artists and designers that we come across while cataloguing. The V&A’s collection of...

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Stained Glass on Paper: Morris & Co. and the Pre-Raphaelites

is a very limited art and its limitations are its strength. (Edward Burne-Jones, 1897) The qualities needed in the design are beauty and character of outline; exquisite, clear,...

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Stained Glass on Paper: Medieval and Renaissance Designs

If you’ve ever wandered the corridors of the V&A, you’ve probably come across the dazzling Sacred Silver and Stained Glass gallery (if not, I definitely recommend a...

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Victorian Valentines

Are you looking forward to Valentine’s Day? I ask because this is one of the few holidays the mention of which is as likely to be met with a snort of derision as a...

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