The making of the South Kensington Museum.
By: edited by Charlotte Gere and Carolyn Sargentson.
Contributors: Wainwright, Clive.; Gere, Charlotte, 1937-; Sargentson, Carolyn.; Victoria and Albert Museum.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Description: The making of the South Kensington Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Victoria and Albert Museum with a number of essays by the late Clive Wainwright, documenting many aspects of te early history of collecting at the South Kensington Museum. The issue also includes accounts of early collecting practice and of the interrelations of the curators with contemporary collectors and dealers.