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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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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Architectural wallpapers
Architectural papers in a variety of styles were available from the mid-18th century, and continued to be popular until the mid 19th century. As well as elaborate renderings of sculpture, architectural features, and plaster-work, there were papers printed as trompe l'oeil imitations of masonry, marble, and later, brickwork, tiling and woodgrain.
Study Room resource: Art Nouveau
Prints and drawings that are not on display in the galleries can be seen in the Prints & Drawings Study Room. To make it easier for teachers and lecturers to access the most popular material with groups, we have developed themed study room resources, such as this one on Art Nouveau, which contain original prints and drawings.
Scenes of The Passion: prints by Dürer and Wiszniewski
Albrecht Dürer published his Large Passion series in 1511. These twelve woodcuts are a vivid and animated rendering of the Gospel story. Here they are contrasted with the series of linocuts by the modern Scottish artist Adrian Wiszniewski, showing the Stations of the Cross.
'Baker Street', etching by Bronwen Sleigh, 2009
Bronwen 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. She is the winner of the V&A Prize at the 2009 Northern Print Biennale.
Cotton gown & petticoat, by unknown maker, about 1785
In the 1770s and 1780s printed cotton fabrics began to replace silk in popularity for women’s gowns. The material of this hand-sewn gown has a dotted ground and is printed in a repeating pattern of floral sprays.
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
31 March–12 August 2012
Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.
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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 - Photography and Photographers in Britain 1839-2012
Tue 17 April 2012 18:30
COURSE: Investigate the work of British photographers from the nineteenth century to the present and discuss
key ideas and questions shaping the history of photography as a medium for creative expression.
