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Yuka Kadoi, « Moya Carey. Persian Art: Collecting the Arts of Iran for the V&A », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.47914
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The Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) is renowned for its extensive collection of Persian art. Covering almost all media of the arts from a wide chronological and geographical spectrum, the V&A collection of Persian art took shape during the late nineteenth century, when Robert Murdoch Smith (1835-1900), Director of the Persian Telegraph Company in Tehran, undertook an unusual task to act as an agent of the Department of Science and Art for acquiring artefacts. He was active on this ...