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  The story of the Raphael Cartoons

  rooms at the Vatican Palace – the Stanza della Segnatura (1511) and Stanza d'Eliodoro­ (1514) – and was engaged…
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  About The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition

  presented here, including the exceptional red royal spinel inscribed with the names of six rulers, engraved…
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  Narcissus by Erwin Eisch

  born in Frauenau, a small town in south-east Germany, where he became familiar with glass-making and engraving…
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  The ‘Dan Brown effect’: Venus-mania from the Olympians to the Expressionists

  when the plate is printed creates a soft, scratchy line quite unlike the harder contours of etching or engraving…
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  Grinling Gibbons – an introduction

  King David, based on a painting by Peter Candid (1548 – 1628) which Gibbons would have known via an engraving…
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  Rococo textile designs by William Kilburn

  Most of his spare time was spent devoted to drawing and engraving, and devising patterns for chintzes…
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  The Stoning of St Stephen by Grinling Gibbons

  career – such as King David and the Crucifixion – the Stoning of St Stephen is not a copy after an engraving…
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  John Tenniel – an introduction

  originally drawn his own illustrations for the first 'Alice' manuscript, but recognised the need to engage…
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  The botanical album of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

  These engravings made Le Moyne's compositions famous, but few of the original drawings they were based…
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  The Rococo style – an introduction

  It first appeared in England in silver and engravings of ornament in the 1730s, with immigrant artists…
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  V&A trail: Christmas

  Can you find the date in the engraving to see when the mould was made?…
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  Jameel Prize 5

  diverse practice, which includes painting, collage, drawing and installation, he uses images as a tool to engage…
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  Vivienne Westwood: a taste for the past

  Inspired by an 18th-century engraving of a pirate, the Pirate collection was named for the way it 'plundered…
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  Martha Edlin's Casket

  contained a selection of her embroidery tools, including a needle-holder and silver bodkin (large needle), engraved…
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  Portrait miniatures: other types of small portraiture

  Born in Germany of Scottish descent, Loggan had trained as an engraver in Amsterdam.…
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  Frederick Hollyer – Life and Work

  Becoming a photographer Born in London in 1837, Hollyer trained as an engraver.…
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  Poor Maria and the Bourbonnais Shepherd – when literature came into fashion

  Scenes from his books were reproduced in paintings and engravings, on decorated snuff boxes and fans,…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  Stop 13: Wine glass, 1735 – 50Map link: Glass, Room 131, Level 3 This Dutch wine glass is engraved with…
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  Teapots through time

  The British East India Company's coat-of-arms appear above an engraved inscription indicating that 'this…
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  An A–Z of metalwork

  This was one of several beakers that Trenck engraved while in prison in Magdeburg.…