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Room 90: Prints & Drawings
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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 Page’, showcased book illustration from famous and much loved books selected from the Museum's collection of original drawings and prints by artists from Durer to Dulac.
Prints collections
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Prints collections

The Prints collections consist of about 500,000 objects encompassing both fine art and commercial production. They include prints from the Renaissance to the present day, printed designs for the decorative arts, topographical and portrait prints, caricatures and greeting cards, and ephemera and commercial graphics. They also contain the national collections of posters and of wallpapers.
International Print Biennale 2014: V&A Prize Winner
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International Print Biennale 2014: V&A Prize Winner

Ellen Heck was the winner of the V&A Prize at the International Print Biennale, Newcastle, in 2014, and her series of prints Forty Fridas, was acquired for the V&A as a result.
International Print Biennale 2011: V&A Prize Winner
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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, Amputations, Etc., 2011, was acquired for the V&A as a result.
Study Rooms

Study Rooms

The V&A has a number of study rooms where additional material from the collections can be viewed.
Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floating World
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Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floating World

Images of everyday Japan printed for popular consumption in the Edo period, represent one of the highpoints of Japanese cultural achievement.
International Print Resident: Mona Choo
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International Print Resident: Mona Choo

Mona Choo was International Print Resident at the V&A, February–August 2009.
Victorian Sentimental Prints, Drawings & Watercolours
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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 were ideal for display in family rooms and traditionally female spaces such as the parlour. The popularity of sentimental pictures coincided with technological innovations in the print trade that enabled these images to be produced quickly and cheaply.
The V&A's Computer Art Collections
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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 significant collections: The Computer Arts Society Collection and The Patric Prince archive. Together these form the basis of the UK's emerging national collection of computer art.
Printing 1450–1520
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Printing 1450–1520

The invention of printing allowed books and images to become household objects. Both could be reproduced quickly and in large numbers, whereas before this revolutionary technology they could only be drawn, painted or written by hand.
Printmaking in the 21st century
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Printmaking in the 21st century

What is a print? The term now encompasses stencilled guerrilla graphics, museum-sponsored billboards, appropriated or found material, a cake iced with a laser-jet printed image, printed MDF floors, wallpapers and soft furnishings. In recent years printmaking has co-opted painting and sculpture, dress and domestic furnishings, commerce and cyberspace. Dynamic and democratic, the world of printmaking now includes the billboard and the badge, the masterpiece and the multiple, the priceless and the give-away.
Study Room resource: Printmaking techniques
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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 such as relief, stencil and intaglio prints. Also includes teachers notes and a reading list.
Wallpaper

Wallpaper

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