Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

A Grand Design. The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
(148 words)

Editors

Malcolm Baker, Brenda Richardson.

Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Imprint

Baltimore, Md., USA, 1997. 431 pp., illustrations: 247 col., 118 b&w, 30 × 23 cm. English.

ISBN

1851773002

Location

Baltimore Museum of Art (12 October 1997–18 January 1998)

Description

The history and various collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Monumental catalog with 9 essays on topics relating to the museum itself, ideas about exhibitions, collecting and “Englishness”, and collecting in the 20th C. One Judaica exhibit: a sumptuous Italian Torah Ark curtain, 1676 (cat. no. 78, p. 209). 200 items.

minor keywords

Torah Ark curtains

Other venues

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., USA (25 February–17 May 1998); Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada (20 June–13 September 1998); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tex., USA (18 October 1998–10 January 1999); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Calif., USA (13 February–9 May 1999); Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom (14 October 1999–16 January 2000)

Cite this page
“A Grand Design. The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 29 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1440>
First published online: 2019



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