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  Uncovering Henry Cole’s Travel Diaries: A Journey Through Time and Europe

  Among its many treasures, the National Art Library at the V&A holds a remarkable set of objects: three travel diaries written by Henry Cole, the museum’s very first director. These notebooks offer a captivating glimpse...
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  The Victorian ecosystem of collecting, and its legacy

  strong links with the institution that would become the V&A; indeed one of the museum’s early curators, John…
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  Portuguese royal silver in the Gilbert Collection

  As one of the last Erasmus+ students in the UK, I was able to come to London from Porto and join the…
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  Bringing Huguenot history to life

  Bartholomew’s Day massacre (1868), Édouard Debat-Ponsan’s One morning at the gates of the Louvre (1880), and John…
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  How should we use terracotta in architecture? 19th century debates

  In his support he invited to the meeting the manufacturer John Marriott Blashfield (1811–1882).…
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  A return to South Kensington

  another to appear in exhibitions, from a private collection to an auction house, or from an artist to a dealer…
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  Time for Play Residency

  The museum’s first Director Henry Cole declared that the Museum should be a ‘schoolroom for everyone’…
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  New discoveries about the altarpiece of St George

  As the first curator of the V&A Robinson, along with the museum’s first director, Henry Cole, art dealer…
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  Frankenstein on Stage

  The contest between Shelley, his future wife Mary Godwin, Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron, and Dr John Polidori…
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  Guest Post: Alexander Barker and the South Kensington Museum

  Archive provide an insight into Barker’s relationship with the Museum and its leading officials such as Henry…
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  How The Eagle Slayer got to Bethnal Green

  The 14 March 2017 marks 122 years since the death of John Bell, an artist who made a piece of sculpture…
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  Globetrot, Haggle, Report: The V&A Art Referee in the 19th Century

  Art Referee Report from John Charles Robinson, sketch of ‘La Gloria Portal’, 11th September 1865 (V&A…
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  ‘Slumland Art’: Exhibiting the Bethnal Green Men’s Institute 1924-1938

  They included a basket maker (Henry Silk), a window cleaner (Albert Turpin), an errand boy (Elwin Hawthorne…
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  Pulling out all the stops: Henry Cole and Royal Albert Hall’s Grand Organ

  The BBC Proms season is only just underway so it seems somewhat premature to mention the climactic Last Night of the Proms, when the bronze bust of Sir Henry Wood, borrowed for the duration of...
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  From Shanghai to Sevenoaks – the Denton Welch bequest

  1949 I first discovered the writer Denton Welch through a list of recommended reads by the filmmaker John…
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  Object Pitch Day 5 – Friday 10 October – part 2

  John Pasche, Artwork for the Rolling Stones lips and tongue logo, 1970.…
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  Born on This Day: Queen Christina of Sweden

  Portrait of Christine of Sweden, aged approx. 16 , by royal court painter Jacob Henry Elbfas, 1640-42…
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  Cleopatra’s Needle

  however, regular readers of this blog won’t be surprised to learn that the V&A’s Director, the ubiquitous Henry…
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  A Stitch in Time: the V&A and the Bayeux Tapestry (1)

  In a hastily scribbled memo to Henry Cole, the V&A’s director, Robinson requested permission to instruct…
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  Update – Defining the Decorative Scheme

  It has also been necessary to engage in a degree of interpretation. …