Join Angus Patterson and Max Donnelly, co-curators of Makers of Modern Gothic: A.W.N. Pugin and John Hardman Jr. The display (in the V&A’s Julie and Robert Breckman Galleries, until 26 October) showcases two major new museum acquisitions of Pugin’s drawings that highlight his close collaborations with the Birmingham metalworker, John Hardman Jr and the London builder George Myers.
It unites the drawings with related objects from the V&A’s collection and loans from private collections, including metalwork, ceramics and jewellery. We will see these together with Pugin’s designs across various media for major projects such as the New Palace of Westminster, the Great Exhibition and Alton Towers, as well as more personal commissions including the Grange, Ramsgate.
Meeting Place: 10:30 am by the Reception Desk in the Main (Cromwell Road) Entrance, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL. The visit will last approx. 1 hour
Max Donnelly is Curator of Furniture and Woodwork, 1800-1915, at the Nineteenth-Century Furniture at the V&A. Angus Patterson is the Senior Curator of Metalwork at the V&A.
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