British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum

The unrivalled collection of post-medieval British sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum is here catalogued and illustrated for the first time. The collection encompasses marble portrait busts and figures, sculpture in wood, terracotta, bronze, lead and plaster, as well as a number of outstanding sculptors' models.Its greatest strengths lie in works from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and virtually every major sculptor active in Britain during this period is represented - among them Nicholas Stone, John Michael Rysbrack, Louis Francois Roubiliac, Joseph Wilton, John Flaxman and Alfred Stevens.Over 770 pieces by almost 200 sculptors are included, more than a third of which have never been published before. The catalogue, wide-ranging and scholarly, will serve both as a work of reference, and in effect a history of sculpture in Britain over 500 years.