Features

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  Selling the seaside – British holiday posters

  The swim-suited women enjoying the sunshine in Andrew Johnson's poster for the Southern Railway have…
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  Botticelli and pulp fiction

  No (1962), in which the bikini-clad Jamaican shell diver Honey Ryder, played by Ursula Andress, emerges…
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  Francis Williams – a portrait of a writer

  including works by Isaac Newton, Locke, Milton, Cowley, Boyle, Sherlock and Rapin, and the architect Andrea…

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• Past Event

  From the Screen to the Seams

  V&A South Kensington

  Costume by: Kaiqi Zhang, Fanqi Xu, Jiehong (Sylvia) Yang, Lucia Bertinetto, Rouzhen Chen, Abi Johnstone…

From the Blog

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  Wedgwood’s abolition journey

  Johnson, London © Fiskars Wearable allyship Wedgwood’s abolition medallions soon became popular…
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  Models After Sculpture

  Advertisement image for the Galerie für Architektur und Kunst Johnen & Schöttle, 1985.…
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  John Dillon – autograph collector

  Godophin, in the Original Manuscript; Johnson’s Original Manuscript of the Life of Pope, and a Highly…
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  Last week of ‘The History of Photography: The Body’

  We have a series in the collection with one included here depicting Emmett Johnson, one of Dureau’s key…
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  10 things we’ve learnt from a history of an OBJECT in 100 worlds

  André-Vincent Vielliard, Sèvres Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain saucer [detail], painted in enamels…