Donald King (1920–1998)

Author of Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection, The: Embroidery in Britain from 1200 to 1750

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Victoria & Albert Museum's Textile Collection, The: Embroidery in Britain… 106 copies
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: On Copia of Words and Ideas (Mediaeval… 14 copies
Samplers 13 copies
Opus Anglicanum: English Medieval Embroidery 5 copies
The Eastern carpet in the Western world from the 15th to the 17th century:… 2 copies
Ricky: Diary of a Gay Love Hustler (Barclay House Psycho-Sex Study) 1 copy
A Venetian Embroidered Frontal 1 copy
South West Railwayman 1 copy
A Parallel for the Linen of the Turin Shroud 1 copy
Crewel 1 copy
The Wandering Eye 1 copy
Silk weaves of Lucca in 1376 (article) 1 copy
Imperial Ottoman textiles : catalogue 1 copy

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Hanwell, Middlesex, UK

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Hanwell, Middlesex, UK (born)

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Educated in Ealing County School for Boys

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Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria & Albert Museum 1972-1980

From 1949 to 1972 he was Assistant and then Deputy Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the V&A Museum

He was called up in 1941 and became an officer in the intelligence division of the Air Ministry

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King, Monique Toury (wife)

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Victoria & Albert Museum

President of Centre Internationale des Etudes Anciens (Cieta) in 1977-1992 (Cieta)

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He took a first in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art

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Obituary, V&A Museum

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Victoria & Albert Museum Bulletin, v1, 4, Oct 1965

Large Picture Book #14

The Victoria and Albert Museum's Textile Collection

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