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Title The Cast Courts / edited by Angus Patterson and Marjorie Trusted
Published London : V&A Publishing, 2018

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Description 112 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary "First opened in 1873, the Victoria and Albert Museum's 'Cast Courts' were purpose built to house copies of architecture and sculpture from around the world. They contain some of the Museum's largest objects, including casts of Trajan's Column (shown in two halves) and the twelfth century Portico de la Gloria from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela. Among the Museum's most popular galleries, the Cast Courts are an extraordinary expression of Victorian taste, ambition and public spirit. Published to celebrate the opening of the refurbished 'Cast Courts' at the V & A, this book presents a fresh perspective on the Museum's diverse collection of reproductions including plaster cats, electrotypes and photographs." -- provided by publisher
Notes "First published by V&A Publishing, 2018" -- title page verso
Design: planningunit.co.uk
Copy-editor: Denny Hemming
Indexer: Nic Nicholas
New photography by Peter Kelleher
Bibliography Includes a bibliography (pages 107-108) and index
Subject Victoria and Albert Museum -- Catalogs
Sculpture galleries -- England -- London
Sculpture -- England -- London -- Catalogs
Plaster casts -- Catalogs
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Author Patterson, Angus, editor
Trusted, Marjorie, editor
Hemming, Denny, editor
Nicholas, Nic
Kelleher, Peter
Victoria and Albert Museum, host institution
V&A Publishing
ISBN 1851779795 paperback
9781851779796 paperback