Room 101: Europe & America 1800-1900
The Europe and America 1800-1900 Gallery includes furniture, ceramics, glass, paintings, posters, books, metalwork and sculpture from throughout the 19th century. The industrial age saw the flowering of international trade and many of the objects in the gallery were first shown at the great international exhibitions in the later part of the century. Highlights include a magnificent and massive Gothic Revival bookcase shown by Carl Leistler & Sons at the Great Exhibition in 1851 (later owned by Queen Victoria), Henri Fantin-Latour's painting, Nasturtiums, of 1880 and objects shown at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1900.
Room 101 is on Level 3 of the V&A South Kensington.
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The Arts of Spain: Iberia and Latin America 1450-1700
A stunning survey of Hispanic art, published in association with the Hispanic Society of America
Buy nowEvent - Rivals and Revivals: Furniture in Europe and America, 1800-1900
Thu 01 March 2012 13:00
GALLERY TALK: Learn how trade and industrialisation brought unprecedented wealth to Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century. This tour of furniture will reveal how rivalry between emerging empires and nation states provoked an interest in reviving historical 'national' styles of furniture, and how new technologies and materials were also exploited.
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