Room 88: Gainsborough's Showbox & Constable's Oil Sketches
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery features the oil sketches of John Constable as well as Thomas Gainsborough's un…
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Room 48a: The Raphael Cartoons
This room houses the surviving designs painted by Raphael, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists, …
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Room 87: Constable, Turner & the Exhibition Landscape
In this Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery major landscape paintings by Constable are exhibited beside works by his com…
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Room 102: Lord Leighton's Frescoes
Commissioned as part of the decoration of the new Museum in 1868 from the famous Victorian painter Lord Frederic Le…
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Room 107: Lord Leighton's Frescoes
Commissioned as part of the decoration of the new Museum in 1868 from the famous Victorian painter Lord Frederic Le…
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Room 90: Prints & Drawings
The Julie and Robert Breckman Gallery contains changing displays of prints and drawings. A recent display, ‘Off the…
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Room 90a: Portrait Miniatures
The International Music and Art Foundation Gallery displays Miniature painting, a unique art form, with artists suc…
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Room 81: The Ionides Collection
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery contains Constantine Ionides' collection which provides a unique insight into p…
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Room 82: The Sheepshanks Collection
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery contains paintings from John Sheepshanks collection. He founded the paintings c…
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Room 88a: Watercolours & drawings
The V&A has acquired thousands of watercolours, drawings and illustrations since its foundation. A selection, rotat…
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Teachers' resource: Victorian social life from paintings
The V&A is one of the best museums in the world for learning about the Victorians. This resource contains an introduction to some of the Victorian paintings in the V&A and suggests ways of using them as sources of historical evidence.
Romanticism: the exotic
Essay on a series of English editions of the collection of Arabic tales known as The Thousand and One Nights, which fed interest in this exotic civilisation
Watercolour painting: materials & techniques
Watercolour paint is a combination of a pigment and a water-soluble binder, usually gum arabic. The pigments may be natural or man-made.
Designs on the future: Developing the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries
The recasting of the Medieval & Renaissance galleries has offered an exceptional opportunity for research and development on all fronts - conservation, curatorial, design, interpretative, scientific and technical. In order to set that research into context, this article will outline some of the key aspects of the development process.
Chinese painting & calligraphy reading list
Recommended reading about Chinese painting & calligraphy
A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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The Public Catalogue Foundation: Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in the Victoria and Albert Museum
The national inventory of oil paintings in public ownership
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