Over the last weeks the forthcoming conference Sensing Time on 18 June 2016 has been the subject of several blogs in our series. Places for the event are still available...
Inspired by the themes of the forthcoming Gilbert Collection Study Day Sensing Time, illustrator and V&A member of staff Eileen Budd created a series of line drawings of...
by Charlotte Johnson, Assistant Curator Time seems straightforward. It is a constant part of our everyday lives; when we look at the time on our smartphones’ lock screen,...
New V&A Pinterest Board Sir Arthur Gilbert was born on 16 May 1913, today would have been his 103rd birthday. The collection he and his first wife Rosalinde created is now at...
A very happy 2016 from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection This chimney sweep box was probably made in Dresden, Germany. Chimney sweeps have long been considered a...
A Habsburg treasure in the V&A’s new Europe 1600-1815 Galleries When thinking of the collections of early modern European courts, masterpieces displayed in cabinets of...
Study day celebrating nineteenth-century mosaics The number of angels flying around shop windows across town seems to increase by the minute, as Christmas is approaching. I would...
The Gilbert Collection was formed by an American Englishman, Arthur Gilbert, who loved to tell the stories behind his treasures. Here are two eighteenth-century masterpieces which...
Friday, 26 June 2015, Fitzwilliam Museum The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection exhibition Close-Up and Personal: Eighteenth-century Gold Boxes from the Rosalinde and Arthur...
London silver has always been an international art, made and collected by people from around the world. This summer, the enduring love affair with the precious metal will be...
This week my colleagues and I installed some extraordinarily beautiful, dazzling, precious pieces from the Gilbert Collection of silver in the V&A Whiteley Silver Galleries as...
Dress trimmings for Rosalinde Gilbert Models Sometimes even with our combined efforts, the V&A’s curatorial team can only get marginally closer to solving the mysteries...
