Enriching the V&a: A Collection of Collections (1862-1914)

by Julius Bryant

By 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars, and art-market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museum's 19th-century history, describes how the young museum's rapid growth in the following decades was driven more by collectors, agents, and dealers, through loans, gifts, and bequests than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848226187
• ISBN13: 9781848226180
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 176 Pages