Medieval Multiplied: A Gothic Ivory and its Reproductions

19 Oct 2024 – 16 Feb 2025
Project Space, Floor 2

Medieval Multiplied: A Gothic Ivory and its Reproductions draws from the collections of 91Ӱ�� and V&A to explore how different technologies of reproduction have shaped encounters with artworks since the 19th��Գٳܰ��.

Juxtaposing a spectacular Gothic ivory carving with multiple reproductions of it – from engravings, photographs and plaster casts to 3D prints and digital models – the display offers unparalleled opportunities to compare these technologies side-by-side.

What do they reveal or conceal about the original? How have they exposed otherwise inaccessible objects to study? And how can historic thinking about the ‘aura’ of the original inform current debates about new, super accurate reproductions?

19 Oct 2024 - 16 Feb 2025

10:00 – 18:00 (last entry 17:15)

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Mirror case; carved ivory with an allegory of love showing knights attacking the castle of love; French; 14th century. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Explore the display

The ivory mirror case

Marvel at a new digital model of a Gothic ivory mirror case from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and compare this model with the original ivory and with reproductions in other media.

Fictile ivories case display

A close-up look at some of the ivories on display, with objects ranging from the 6th to the 15th century.

Fictile ivories wall display

Explore a display of fictile ivories inspired by the photographs by Isabel Agnes Cowper (1826–1911) in Frederick Maynard’s Descriptive notice of the drawings and publications of the Arundel Society, London, 1869.

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