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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Prints collections
The Prints collections consist of about 500,000 objects encompassing both fine art and commercial production. They …
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International Print Biennale 2011: V&A Prize Winner
Dawn Cole was the winner of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale, Newcastle, in 2011, and this print, …
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Study rooms
The V&A has a number of study rooms where additional material from the collections can be viewed.
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Ukiyo-e: pictures of the Floating World
Images of everyday Japan, printed for popular consumption in the Edo period (1615-1868), they represent one of the …
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Mona Choo
Mona Choo is a printmaker working in Singapore and London. She has had a diverse career, working for Singapore's to…
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Victorian sentimental prints, drawings & watercolours
Scenes of tender feeling were popular during the Victorian period. They became associated with the home as they wer…
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The V&A's computer art collections
The V&A has been collecting computer-generated art and design since the 1960s, and has also acquired two significan…
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Printing 1450–1520
The invention of printing allowed books and images to become household objects. Both could be reproduced quickly an…
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Printmaking in the 21st century
What is a print? The term now encompasses stencilled guerrilla graphics, museum-sponsored billboards, appropriated …
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Study Room resource: Printmaking techniques
This Study Room Resource contains examples of the printmaking techniques which are most likely to occur in schools …
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Obituary of Anthony Ellis
Anthony (Tony) Ellis (–1964) was an art historian who, as Deputy Director, brought the Bowes Museum to national attention. In 1950 he joined the Victoria & Albert Museum and spent three years working in the Department of Prints and Drawings.
Obituary of Lionel Lambourne, OBE
Lionel Lambourne (1933–2010) had a distinguished museum career in a variety of roles. He joined the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1958, in the Department of Prints & Drawings, but also worked in the Education Department and was Assistant Keeper of Paintings. His many accomplishments at the V&A include raising the profile of comic and sporting art, introducing travelling shows to Japan, and creating the V&A staff pantomime, which is still going strong.
Printing and binding a hand-made book
A printed book
Chauncy Hare Townshend
Chauncy Hare Townshend was a friend of Charles Dickens and later his literary executor. He bequeathed to the Museum a large collection of objects including oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, drawings and books.
Obituary of Ray Smith
Ray Smith (–1996) began his career at the Victoria & Albert Museum as a Boy Attendant and ended it as Senior Research Assistant (Administration) in the Department of Prints, Drawing and Paintings. In the interim he worked in the Circulation Department, organizing the preparation of countless travelling exhibitions, and in the Textiles Department, where his love for and care of the objects was an inspiration to his staff.
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We are currently working on an exciting project to conserve and re-install the original stained glass on the landings of the Manfred and Lydia Gorvy Lecture Theatre. We need your help to raise £75,000 to bring these historical features back to their former glory for us all to enjoy.
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'We Play at the V&A' by Jon Burgerman (Print)
Limited edition of 200 Risograph prints, signed and numbered by the artist.
Buy nowEvent - Holbein to Hockney: Art in Britain at the V&A
Tue 22 January 2013 14:00
SHORT COURSE: Explore the rich and fascinating history of British art through examples held in the V&A’s unrivalled collection of paintings, drawings and prints.
