PRINTS & BOOKS
Objects in the Prints & Books Collection
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Ali Pasha Print
![True Likeness of the beheaded Turkish officer Ali Bassa [Ali Pasha], anonymous German broadsheet, c.1571, woodcut with stencil and hand colouring on laid paper with letterpress. Museum no. E.912-2003](/images/general_page/abstract_images/8095_image.jpg)
The collections continue to grow, from rare early prints to exciting contemporary work by, for example, Tracey Emin, Langlands & Bell, Chris Ofili and Julian Opie.
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Bronwen Sleigh: Winner of the V&A Prize at the Northern Print Biennale
Sleigh is a gifted and innovative printmaker working with a traditional medium - etching - but introducing distinctive painterly qualities through her application of colour, and the character of the mark-making.
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Exposition Posters: Dreaming of the Future
The Museum has acquired a number of posters from 20th century expositions. These striking images capture the excitement of these great events and illustrate the distinctive ways in which different countries promoted the exhibitions they hosted.
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Sonderbehandling (Special Treatment, Nazi Bureaucratic Term for Killing Prisoners)
The artist Reginald Case grew up in 1940s America, his imagination disturbed by post-war revelations of the full horror of what had taken place in Europe. In the late 1970s he began to exorcise his childhood demons in a series of collages on the theme, which included this 1978 work, Sonderbehandling (special treatment, Nazi bureaucratic term for killing prisoners).
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