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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London also has a good collection bequeathed by Joan Evans, daughter of a famous 19th-century collector.
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An alphorn made at Rigi-Kulm, Schwyz, and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, measures 8 ft. in length and has a straight tube.
The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.
The largest public collection of her letters and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Linder Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842, five years after her accession and two years after their marriage.
However, the purchase of a Scottish estate by Victoria and Albert, and their adoption of Scottish architectural style, was very influential for the ongoing revival of Highland culture.
Albert spent many days shooting deer and game, while Victoria took long walks of up to four hours daily.
From July to August 1892 he served in the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert while Queen Victoria was holidaying in the Mediterranean.
The Victorian docks were mostly further east, comprising the Royal Victoria ( 1855 ), Millwall ( 1868 ) and Royal Albert ( 1880 ).
) His Pooh work is so famous that 300 of his preliminary sketches were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old.
His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.
Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.
Spanish emerald and gold pendant at Victoria and Albert MuseumEnamelled gold, amethyst and pearl pendant, about 1880, Pasquale Novissimo ( 1844 – 1914 ), V & A Museum number M. 36-1928
It is said that Queen Victoria got to know her future husband, Prince Albert, better through a series of ice skating trips.
Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.
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He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.
During the summer of 1925 Bloomfield worked as Assistant Ethnologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in the Canadian Department of Mines, undertaking linguistic field work on Plains Cree ; this position was arranged by Edward Sapir, who was then Chief of the Division of Anthropology, Victoria Museum, Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Department of Mines.
These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.
An early extant example of a mandolin is one built by Antonio Vinaccia in 1772, which resides at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
Also, the plaster copy of the David in the Cast Courts ( Victoria and Albert Museum ) in London, has a fig leaf in a box at the back of the statue.
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The Queen Victoria | Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle published in the Illustrated London News, 1848, and republished in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia in December 1850.
* 1991 – The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
* 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
By 1838, there were twenty districts: Bathurst, Brock, Colbourne, Dalhousie, Eastern, Gore, Home, Huron, Johnstown, London, Midland, Newcastle, Niagara, Ottawa, Prince Edward, Simcoe, Talbot, Victoria, Wellington, and Western.
The exhibition Postmodernism-Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at the Victoria and Albert Museum ( London, 24 September 2011 – 15 January 2012 ) was billed as the first show ever to document postmodernism as a historical movement.
< div class =" center "> Mary, Queen of Scots by an unknown artist after François Clouet ( c. 1559 ) London, Victoria and Albert Museum </ div > The Queen is shown wearing her rope of famous black pearls.
Wedgwood copy in the British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with the original roundel base still in place.
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