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The V&A Album

documentary heritage
  • Other Name

    The V & A Album--alternate title. (Alternate title)

    The V and A Album--alternate title (Alternate title)

    Victoria and Albert Album--alternate title (Alternate title)

  • Description

    "This is the first V&A Album; it will be published every year before Christmas and I would like to see it become as well loved an institution as The Book of Beauty of the 1840s or the Saturday Book of the post-war era.

    This book has no other end than to give pleasure. The authors are the main V&A scholars writing about things they love, writing to share the enjoyment of the collections of one of the world's greatest museums. This is, we hope, scholarship worn lightly - as Horace Walpole put it, a book to 'inform, innovate, entertain'."--foreword, 1982.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    N1150.A83 V&A (Library of Congress Call Number)

    91350 (Cat ID)

    91160 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Images

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    The V&A Album
  • Other Name

    The V & A Album--alternate title. (Alternate title)

    The V and A Album--alternate title (Alternate title)

    Victoria and Albert Album--alternate title (Alternate title)

  • Primary Maker
  • Contributor/Publisher
    Templegate Publishing Ltd
  • Place
  • Date
    1982
  • Physical Description

    4 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    0946345015
    0905209990
    0948107162
    0946345031
  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    4 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Sample contents: 1982
    Foreword / Roy Strong -- recent acquisitions -- Sir Henry Cole: first director of the V&A / Elizabeth Bonython -- Vivant Denon and the Service Egyptien / Charles Truman -- gilding the lily: French Ormolu 1690-1790 / Martin Chapman -- homage to the Queen: Hilliard and the cult of Queen Elizabeth / Roy Strong -- Oliver Messel in the theatre / John Barber -- a glory to the museum: the casting of the Portico de la Gloria / Malcolm Baker -- the image sellers / Lionel Lambourne -- the picturesque eye: Benjamin Brecknell Turner's album / Mark Haworth-Booth -- Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill / Stephen Calloway -- Igor Stravinsky on the stage: a centenary toast to the future / Alexander Shouvaloff -- the court painters of Udaipur / Andrew Topsfield -- the liberal connoisseur: Constantine Alexander Ionides and his collection / Stephen Jones -- second thoughts on 'my second sermon' by Millais / Lionel Lambourne -- contemporary prints: the V&A collects / Susan Lambert -- royal babies / Henrietta Front -- the great bed of Ware: holotype or syntype? / Michael Darby -- the king of hoardings: the posters of Tom Purvis / Bevis Hillier -- Royal French Firearms: a collection made for Louis XIII / A.R.E. North -- the public face of private mourning: the London funeral 1695-1945 / Julian W.S. Litten -- Karsavina and friends: an autochrome by Baron de Meyer / Richard Buckle and Mark Haworth-Booth -- attic or treasure house? / Simon Tait -- London streets at Christmas / Anthony Burton -- index of advertisers.
  • Public Access Text

    Includes advertisements.

  • Collection Type
    General Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    06 Dec 2024
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