Behind the scenes of an exhibition: or everything you wanted to know about exhibitions, but were afraid to ask.
Over the last twelve months we have been enhancing the boxlist for the Li Yuan-chia archive with the aim ofContinue Reading
Tag: Visual Collections
The Cellar Art Project
The Visual Collections Team has joined forces with Collection Care conservator Niki Pantazidou to try and make sense of aContinue Reading
Manchester Histories Festival – 11th June 2016
The John Rylands Library is part of Manchester Histories Festival Celebration Day 2016 taking place across Manchester Town Hall andContinue Reading
Vive la France!
Having been inspired by an undergraduate Art History and Visual Collections Seminar first year student Kelly Stanford has returnedContinue Reading
Facial recognition software solves Elizabeth Gaskell mystery
On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (on 12 November 1865), a mystery surrounding the true identity ofContinue Reading
A Portrait of Enriqueta Rylands
Elaine Sheldon of The Collection Care Team writes: The library’s portrait sculpture of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands has been cleaned byContinue Reading
Marcantonio Raimondi’s Day Out
On Monday 22nd June 2015 The Visual Collections Team were delighted to take the Spencer Album of Marcantonio Raimondi printsContinue Reading
Li Yuan-chia – The Man behind the Artist.
Over the last 4 months we have been working across teams, (The Visual Collections and The Manuscript and Archives Departments),Continue Reading
Picture Store
Elaine Sheldon from our Collection Care Team writes: Freelance paintings conservator Elizabeth Jowett has recently been working on a smallContinue Reading
The Race for Westminster
Political cartoons are a regular feature in modern-day newspapers and periodicals. Cartoons have long been used to capture, and provideContinue Reading