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Victoria Button

Senior Paper Conservator, Conservation Department

Victoria Button is a Senior Paper Conservator at the V&A, with an interest in Old Master prints and drawings, portrait miniatures and technical art history. Her doctorate was on the materials and techniques of Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait drawings.

Conservation

Introducing…The Leman Album

The Leman album, an enhanced facsimile, is one of the V&A Research Institute’s (VARI)first ‘named’ projects. Containing some 97 vibrantly coloured designs for woven...

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The Complex World of Small Things: Part Three

Hands that Make, Hands that Hold, Hands that Mend According to the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, hands are “man’s outer brain”. They form what we conjure up...

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The Complex World of Small Things: Part Two

Tools of the Trade Here is a photograph of the tools I have brought with me for my month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: From its contents you may think that my profession...

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The Complex World of Small Things: Part One

Musings on the materials and techniques of portrait miniatures Contrary to popular belief, small does not equal easy: not in the world of the conservation of portrait...