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Following last year's successful collaboration with the BBC, the V&A is hosting another series of lectures to complement Simon Schama's highly successful BBC programmes. The lectures will feature star objects from the Museum's British Galleries, which open in November 2001. The lectures aim to explore the social and cultural dimensions of the period covered by the BBC series.


Previous lecture series held at the V&A:

The van Vianen Dolphin Basin, silver, designed by Christian van Vianen, English, 1635. Museum No. M.1-1918

13 May
2001
Lecture Theatre

Silver for Charles I: culture of the magnificent image

Philippa Glanville, former Head of Silver, Metalwork and Jewellery Department, V&A (now director of Waddesdon Manor) lectures on court silver, including a silver basin by Christian van Vianen.

Gallery Event: Silver demonstration in the Silver Gallery.
Oliver Cromwell, engraving, ink on paper, by William Faithorne (1616-91), after Velasquez, London, England, 1656. Museum No. E.972-1960

20 May
2001
Jean Muir Seminar Room

Prints at the time of the Civil War

Nick Humphrey, new British Galleries 1500-1900 Tudor and Stuart Team Co-ordinator, V&A.

Gallery Event: Demonstration - Gilding book pages in Gallery 63.
The Melville Bed, possibly designed by Daniel Marot, possibly made by Francis Lapiere, Scotland, c. 1697. Museum No. W.35-1949 27 May
2001
Lecture Theatre

Fit for a king: the State Bed from Melville House, Fife

Tessa Murdoch, Head of Furniture and Woodwork Department and Linda Hillyer, Head of Textile Conservation, V&A.

Gallery Event: A video in Gallery 63 will illustrate how the Melville Bed was assembled.

 
18th Century tea table and porcelain tea service 3 June
2001
Lecture Theatre

Elegant eating: polite society in the 18th century

Ann Eatwell, Assistant Curator, Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery Department, V&A lectures on 18th century dining and tea drinking.

Gallery Event: An audio in Gallery 63 featuring Benjamin Zephania.
 

 

Current lecture series held nationally:

22 May 2001

The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire County Council
Venue: The lecture will be held at the Commemorative Hall, Huntingdon

Prints at the time of the Civil War

Nick Humphrey, new British Galleries 1500-1900 Tudor and Stuart Team Co-ordinator, V&A lectures on prints form the V&A and the Cromwell Museum's collection.

The lecture is free and starts at 19.30
For further information call 01480 375830

 

31 May 2001

Venue:
School of Art History, University of St Andrews

 

 

Fit for a king: The State Bed from Melville House, Fife

Dr Tessa Murdoch, Acting Chief Curator of the Furniture and Woodwork Department, V&A, and Linda Hillyer, Head of Textile Conservation at the V&A, lecture on the historical background, as well as the conservation and assembly, of the Melville Bed.

The lecture is free and starts at 19.00
For further information call 01334 462399

 

 

 

 

 

7 June 2001


Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
Venue: The lecture will be held at Powell Lecture Theatre, Bristol University

 

 

Elegant eating: polite society in the 18th century

Ann Eatwell, Assistant Curator, Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery Department, V&A lectures on 18th century dining and polite society.

The lecture is free and starts at 19.30
For further information call 01179 223571

19 June 2001

Venue:
The Grosvenor Museum, Chester

Silver for Charles I: culture of the magnificent image

Philippa Glanville, former Head of Silver, Metalwork and Jewellery Department, V&A (now director of Waddesdon Manor) lectures on court silver, including a silver basin by Christian van Vianen and 17th century objects from the Grosvenor Museum's silver collection.

Tickets are £5 and the lecture starts at 19.30
For further information call 01244 402008