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all are defined by a particular ambition to be innovative

Taking as their focus the Rule of St Benedict

worked and travelled together from 1949 to 1988

Enriching the V&A and poor qualityBy 1862, just a decade after its launch as a study collection for art and design, the Victoria and Albert Museum had become a reference resource for collectors, scholars and art market experts. Enriching the V&A, the final volume in a trilogy of books on the museums 19th century history, describes how the young museums rapid growth in the following decades was driven more by collectors, agents and dealers, through loans, gifts and bequests, than by