Isabella Banks – A Collection Full of Surprises!
I am pleased to announce that the cataloguing of the Isabella Banks Collection of Objects and Photographs has finally beenContinue Reading
Tag: Visual Collections
Close to the heart, the Art of family
In previous blogs about the Rylands photographic collections there has been a lot of focus on architectural photographs and landscapes;Continue Reading
Innovators and Artists, the early pioneers of Photography
The ‘Out of the Ether’ project, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which is facilitating cataloguingContinue Reading
Francis Frith, Manchester & the Business of Art
Francis Frith (1822 –1898) was an English photographer who captured images of many towns in the United Kingdom but isContinue Reading
Recollections of Dunham Massey
A fabulous collection of photographs entitled Recollections of Dunham c1870s has now been catalogued and is available to see viaContinue Reading
Picturing the The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire, 1901
We have a further addition to Visual Collections items that have been catalogued as part of the Paul Mellon CentreContinue Reading
Changing the Landscape: the Art of Roger Fenton
We are pleased to announce that another wonderful album of Victorian photography is now fully catalogued and available through LibraryContinue Reading
Discovering Intérieurs Anglais: The Art of Bedford Lemere & Co.
This week the Special Collections division held a Roadshow in the University of Manchester Library. For me, it was anContinue Reading
Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: Show and Tell!
The last couple of months have been a flurry of activity as we prepare the information to accompany the objectsContinue Reading
Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: The Art of Visual Communication
Digitisation activity around our Special Collections exhibitions has become more and more critical over the past few years. Whether thatContinue Reading