Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…Utilizing close examination of the revisions in Dickens’s remarkable manuscript of the novel (now in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London), I consider several other figures that double Carton: Mr. …”
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For the Record:[un] official voices at the V&A by Linda Sandino

“…This report gives an overview of the historical and affective value of oral history recordings drawing on my current research on curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The interviews demonstrate the changing definition of the title  ‘curator’ over time, but show how this is achieved through the medium of the oral history interview, a context which enables a form of self-reflection that throws light on the interviewees’ individual and collective identity as curators working together in and for a specific institution.  …”
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Mindful Stitch: Generating dialogue in and around the threads of wellbeing by Emma Louise Swinnerton

“…Mindful Stitch addresses the gap in the research regarding hand embroidery as a mindful craft practice, catering for a wide audience, additionally welcomed to the 2013 conference The Subversive Stitch: Revisited, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.…”
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Digital Museum Collections and Social Media: Ethical Considerations of Ownership and Use by Kalliopi Fouseki, Kalliopi Vacharopoulou

“…The paper draws on three cases of national museums in the UK, namely the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. …”
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Avinoam Shalem (ed.): The Chasuble of Thomas Becket: A Biography. by Ingrid Lunnan Nødseth

“…The recent exhibition of embroidered vestments at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, with its beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue, has likewise spurred new interest in medieval textile art (see Browne et al. 2017). …”
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G.B. Giorgini: Fashion, Florence and Diplomacy, 1950-55 by Sonnet Stanfill

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Il museo che non c’è. Note sulla dispersione del patrimonio in Gran Bretagna by Caroline Patey

“…Sordo al nome di Jean Nouvel (Reina Sofia, Louvre) quanto a quelli di Herzog & De Meuron (Tate Modern), impermeabile ai fasti del British Museum (Norman Foster) come ai restauri della Tate Britain (James Stirling), disinteressato alle fortune del ‘nuovo’ Victoria and Albert Museum e malinconico come si addice alla sua natura, il fantasma invita a interrogare tanta luccicante spettacolarità e forse a non dimenticare che, per quanto custode di memoria e guardiano di culture, il museo è anche il luogo dove vengono consumate, direttamente o meno, amnesie e damnatio memoriae e in nome del quale continuano a perpetrarsi non poche violazioni e disseminazioni.…”
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The Iconography of the Composition on the Seal of Constantine Mesopotamites (Worshippers’ Images in Byzantine Sigillography) by Valery Pavlovich Stepanenko

“…This iconography is known as early as the fifth century (ivory diptych from the Victoria and Albert Museum), and from the ninth century (the Trebizond gospel) to the fourteenth century (the Urbino gonfalon) or to the fifteenth century (the Palaiologean numismatics). …”
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The Climate Toolbox—A Microsoft^® Excel^® Based Tool for Assessing and Comparing the Effects of Internal Climates on Museum Artefacts by Boris Pretzel

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New Interpretation of the Imagines Clypeatae on the Coptic Textiles of the 4th – 7th Centuries by Olga Osharina

“…The greater part of similar images comes from the London collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Municipal Museum of Haag. …”
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Making London porcelain—a multidisciplinary project connecting local communities with the technological and innovation histories of london’s early porcelain manufacturers by Burgio, L, Domoney, K, Haseldine, G, McCaffrey-Howarth, C

“…<p>This collaborative multidisciplinary pilot project involving the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the Ashmolean Museum, and Newham Borough of London, examined the composition of a selection of eighteenth-century porcelain objects by two of London’s first porcelain manufacturers, Bow and Chelsea. …”

“The Assemblage of Specimens”: The Magazine as Catalogue in 1970s Britain by Samuel Bibby

“…In 1976, the Victoria and Albert Museum staged an exhibition dedicated to the history of art periodicals since their inception at the end of the eighteenth century. …”
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The Plus Oultra writing cabinet of Charles V: Expression of the sacred imperialism of the Austrias by Ángeles Jordano

“…The “Plus Oultra” writing cabinet of Charles V on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum of London is an 'intarsia' piece made by Italian craftsmen ca. 1532. …”
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Box in Art and Personal Applications in Ceramic Art by Azize Melek ÖNDER

“…However, when the museums (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, British Museum, etc.) and collections are examined, it can be said that the box forms that can survive today are quite a few. …”
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Nie tylko Wilniana. Ekslibris Erica Gilla (1882-1940) w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu by Anna Klugowska

“…Analiza materiałów archiwalnych uniwersyteckiej książnicy pozwoliła na ustalenie proweniencji zbioru ekslibrisów angielskich Zaprezentowana została również postawa twórcza wybitnego brytyjskiego artysty przełomu XIX i XX wieku Erica Gilla (1882-1940) , który jest autorem ekslibrisu Miriam Rothschild (1932 r.) znajdującego się w zbiorach Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Toruniu i Victoria &amp; Albert Museum w Londynie. Przegląd i wnikliwa analiza literatury omawiającej twórczość E. …”
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Non-Invasive Technical Investigation of English Portrait Miniatures Attributed to Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver by Flavia Fiorillo, Lucia Burgio, Christine Slottved Kimbriel, Paola Ricciardi

“…The 23 objects chosen for the analysis, spanning almost the entire career of the two artists, belong to the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge). …”
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The composition and technology of polychrome enamels on Chinese ruby‐backed plates identified through nondestructive micro‐X‐ray fluorescence by Norris, D, Braekmans, D, Domoney, K, Shortland, A

“…This study utilises two key, high‐value art works with complex enamelling in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK) to elucidate the composition and technology of objects with ruby‐backed decoration. …”

Cleaning testing of nineteenth-century plaster surface models with thin polyacrylamide-based gel layers attached to flexible polyethylene films by Charis Theodorakopoulos, Valentina Risdonne, Silvia Freese, Samar Diraoui, Ulrich Jonas

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Un pintor holandés en la Corona de Aragón: "Johan Utuvert, pintor de retaules de Utrecht" by Matilde Miquel Juan

“…Su formación en el condado de Utrecht, próximo al ducado de Guelders, lugar de origen de los hermanos Limbourg, permitirá comprender la realización de determinadas obras de arte dentro del contexto valenciano como el políptico de San Jorge del Centenar de la Ploma (Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres), y la conexión que presenta con el cuaderno de dibujos del Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe degli Ufizzi (Florencia).…”
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FTIR surface analysis for conservation by David Thickett, Boris Pretzel

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