The Factory Presents... Revealing the Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Photographs and Digital Art Collections

Easter Bonnets

Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam: Fancy some last minute inspiration for your Easter Bonnet? These six lithographs come from a series of eighteen of beautiful women in fantastical costumes representing various aspects of Paris. They were created in about 1910 by an artist signing himself simply as ‘Laviny’. We yet don’t know much about him, but he clearly had quite the...
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Weird and Wonderful Wallpapers

Guest post by Daniel Milford Cottam: “My wallpaper is killing me. One of us will have to go” – Oscar Wilde. Among many other things, the Prints, Drawings and Paintings collection also includes a spectacular selection of wallpapers. This post showcases some of the more striking, unusual and eclectic wall-coverings spanning the late 18th to the late 19th centuries. Click on the...
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International Women's Day - Historic Women at the V&A

  Guest post by Erika Lederman: ISABEL A. COWPER – First Female Official Photographer of the First Museum Photographic Service? With March being International Women’s Month, and Friday, 8 March, International Women’s Day, we here at the Factory thought it would be nice to highlight the work of an overlooked female artist.  With this mandate in mind, we were happy to...
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We are a group of cataloguers, photographers, curators and volunteers, nicknamed 'the Factory'. We are working through the stored collections of the Prints, Designs, Photographs, Paintings and Digital Art sections of the Word and Image department at the V&A, making sure that images and existing data about the items we hold are available to the public via Search the Collections.

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