Guest blog by Julia Neville, of the ‘West Quarter in the 1920s Research Project’. Julia investigates the poor conditions of Exeter’s slums in the twentieth century.
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In this guest blog, Dr Andrew Jackson compares Robert Polhill Bevan’s two version of ‘A Devonshire Valley’ at RAMM and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.
Frederick Gordon Tutton (1888-1930) was a pioneer of early colour photography. He worked in Britain and the United States. One of his photographs is part of RAMM’s Fine Art collection.
Blog from RAMM’s Assistant Curator of Photographs. Learn more about the photographs in RAMM’s collections that are part of the latest collections review.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest Elizabethan artists, Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547-1619). The Hilliards were a prominent family in Exeter, renowned for their craftsmanship. Although the name of Hilliard is now more associated with miniature portraits, the family were originally goldsmiths. Several objects linked to the Hilliards are now held in RAMM’s collection. Here we trace the family’s history, beginning with Nicholas’ father Richard.
As part of our project to make the decorative arts collection digitally accessible, we have been photographing our ceramics and focusing especially on RAMM’s Martinware.
Whilst researching a ‘Red Breast’ for the current seasons exhibition an exciting discovery has been made. This work and another 5 works were attributed to B. Fawcett. The database held little further information. However, online article published by Archives and Special Collections department, part of Hull University’s library showed a black and white image of the work ‘Red Breast’. Especially relevant are the details of the artist Benjamin Fawcett and specific details of the publication for which it was produced.
Researchers in Exeter and India have revealed that 17 Indian botanical drawings in RAMM’s collection are by three of the most renowned late 18th-century Indian painters. They are Sheikh Zain al-Din, Bhawani Das and Ram Das.
