Many prints and drawings that are not on display in the galleries can be seen in the Prints, Drawings and RIBA Architecture Study Rooms. To make it easier for teachers and lecturers to access the most popular material with groups, we have developed themed Study Room Resources which contain original prints and drawings.
Study Room resource: Architects’ drawings and ideas
This resources contains a selection of some of the different types of drawings architects produce at different stages of the design process in order to develop and communic…
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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 mos…
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Study Room resource: Book illustration
This study room resource examines the development of book illustration. To make it easier for teachers and lecturers to access the most popular material with groups, we hav…
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Study Room resource: Botanical illustration
These Study Room resources contain samples of botanical illustrations from the 15th century to the present day. A more comprehensive companion is a book entitled Picturing …
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Study Room Resource: Christmas
This section describes how pupils can use the Christmas card collection to separate the strands of these traditions. The activity suggested in the Teachers' notes is partly…
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Study Room resource: Constable
These Study Room Resources contain samples of John Constable's sketches and paintings. Ranked with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape artists, Constable was a …
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Study Room resource: Graphics and advertising
This Study Room Resource examines some of the advertisements used in the exhibition 'Rewind: 40 years of Advertising and Design From the D&AD' held at the V&A in 2002. In a…
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Study Room resource: Japanese prints
This study room resource explores the art of ukiyo-e Japanese prints including the works of Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
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Study Room resource: Medieval writing and printing
The contents of this resource has been put together to illustrate book production from the hand-made manuscript to the printed page. The resource will be useful for teacher…
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Study Room resource: Pattern
This study room resource examines designs for wallpaper and texiles by designers from 1868 to 1978. Also available are teachers notes and a reading list.
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Study Room resource: Poster design
This resource examines the history of poster design looking at the materials and well as the process of development. Teachers' notes are included.
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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 include…
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Study Room resource: The role and status of women 1900-39
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…
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Study Room resource: The Great Exhibition
Prints and drawings that are not on display in the galleries can be seen in the Prints and Drawings Study Room. To make it easier for teachers and lecturers to access the m…
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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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Inside the Renaissance House
The Renaissance home was an outward symbol of a family's status, wealth and erudition, and much care went into its arrangement and furnishing, and the…
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