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  Trunks and travelling

  encourage water run-off, Vuitton is credited with introducing the innovative flat-topped trunk to the French…
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  A short history of plywood in ten-ish objects

  It was made according to a technique for moulding furniture that was patented in New York in 1858 by John…
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  An A–Z of Ceramics

  B is for biscuit 'Biscuit' comes from the French 'bis-cuite', meaning 'twice baked', although the term…
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  Photographic processes

  Collage (from the French 'coller' - to stick) involves combining fragments of different materials, which…
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  The story of pantomime

  In 1732 John Rich, the most notable early Harlequin who danced but never spoke, built Covent Garden Theatre…
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  V&A trail: Out in the museum

  The faces are portraits of the French writer and artist Jean Cocteau and his lover and muse Jean Marais…
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  "That's the way to do it!" A history of Punch & Judy

  dancing Punch was a star of the stage at the Covent Garden Theatre in November 1825, when the comic French…
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  Redefining the diva

  These ideas were reinforced by French poet Charles Baudelaire in his Painter of Modern Life, in which…
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  John Constable's sketches

  Find out how and why Constable created his sketches and studies, celebrated as showing 'nature caught in the very act'
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  Transcript – Salon I: Where was Europe?

  English responses and engagement with the Ottomans was very different to French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch…
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  Transcript – Salon III: Europe through non-European Eyes

  That also has appeal in Peking, in the French teaching orders who start to make some Greek Orthodox Arabs…
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  Transcript – Salon IV: Ephemeral Europe

  One is the comparative way, was there a difference between ephemerality of a French cabinet of precious…
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  John Constable – an introduction

  John Constable's work transformed the genre of landscape painting and shaped the enduring popular image of the English countryside
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  Interviews with knit designers and textile artists

  hand-knits were sold in Browns of London and Bloomingdale's in the United States and were notable for their fresh…
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  Perugino, and his rediscovery by the Pre-Raphaelites

  Over his lengthy career he produced hundreds of altarpieces and frescoes for Christian buildings in central…
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  Constable's oil sketches

  impressions and not final works, we can really see the artist's virtuoso painting ability to create fresh…
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  Lucienne Day – an introduction

  A receptive audience was waiting, ready for a breath of fresh air after the visual bleakness of the war…
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  Grinling Gibbons – an introduction

  originality were quickly recognised by knowledgeable and well connected figures, such as the author John…
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  Wallpaper: health and cleanliness

  In 1853, John Stather & Sons Ltd., a wallpaper manufacturers founded in Hull, England, produced oil-printed…