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  Reconstructing the India Museum experience: some early personal visitor accounts

  cases’ The following, much shorter account is written by the German physiologist and painter Carl Gustav…
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  Pandemic Objects: The Sea

  A Daily Sea is a meditative and dynamic series of 56 seascapes taken daily over the course of the first…
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  Art and Activism in the age of the Anthropocene

  embodiment of the ideas of his friend and founder of modern anarchist theory Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Gustave…
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  The Universal Races Congress, George Birdwood and the Indian Collection

  On 27 June 1911, Gustav Spiller, the organiser, wrote to the museum, outlining his plans to include ‘…
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  Visualising the Royal Photographic Society collection: Part 2

  people mounted in a circle/oval, including (middle) The Head of John the Baptist on a Charger by Oscar Gustav…
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  Adolphe Bilordeaux: Photographs as Drawing Lessons

  There were of course practical advantages to photographing casts, in that they were far less precious…
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  Vivandieres: Part 3

  Unlike the Vendôme Column in this 1871 French caricature of Gustave Courbet, the cantinière wasn’t going…
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  It’s the drink talking (and walking)

  The tour acted as the final session for a very successful course run as part of the HoD MA first-year…
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  In The Buff

  Military Buff coat: A haptic experience During my time as an MA student on the V&A/RCA History of Design course…
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  Born on This Day: Queen Christina of Sweden

  The daughter of Gustav II Adolph (Gustav Adolphus of Sweden) and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg; following…
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  Born on this Day: François Boucher

  that I’ve been pipped to the post by the V&A’s Facebook page in marking the birthday of the French court…