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Fictile Ivories Cataloguing Placement

Salary This is an unpaid doctoral placement that is financially supported by the successful applicant’s PhD stipend in line with UKRI guidance.
Location Cromwell Road, London
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This is a Fixed Term Contract, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Role

To provide opportunities for early-career training for PhD students, the V&A has made available a range of doctoral placements based in collections departments, archives, the National Art Library, research, and collections care and access. Each placement is a discrete project designed by members of V&A staff (who will also act as the placement’s supervisor), involving collaborative as well as independent research.

As exemplified by the V&A’s Cast Courts and cast production, in the nineteenth century, new technologies for reproduction such as plaster casting, electrotyping and photography began to play an important role in the institutional development of art history, archaeology and conservation, and the development of networks between European private and public collections. Due to their comparatively small size and portability, Fictile Ivories – plaster casts of medieval and Baroque ivory carvings – played a particularly important role in this story about networks, exchanges, and learning.

The V&A’s collection of over 1000 Fictile Ivories is the largest collection of these objects in existence, and J.O. Westwood’s A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (1876) remains the standard reference work for anyone interested in these objects. This project aims to bring Westwood’s pioneering work into the 21st century. The successful candidate will complete a focused photography and cataloguing campaign of a portion of the V&A’s Fictile Ivories, making them digitally accessible via Explore the Collections. They will develop object handling skills which will be utilised in reorganising the collection within our storage. They will also be given the opportunity to collaborate on a dedicated webpage outlining the importance and history of this part of the V&A’s collection and potentially co-author an article situating them within recent research.

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