November Supper Club: Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria- a social and cultural phenomenon
29th November 2024
November Supper Club: Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria- a social and cultural phenomenon
This lecture reveals what jewellery meant to the people who wore it.
Queen Victoria played a huge role: what she wore and did had tremendous impact, so what might seem a narrow subject acts as a key to our understanding of the entire Victorian age – its mourning rituals, its politics, its nationalism and its revivals of past ages as models for the present - all are embodied in its jewellery. Particular reference will be made to the jewels in the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart.
Join us for a 5:30pm lecture start, followed by a 6:45pm supper.
November's Speaker
Judy Rudoe is an Honorary Research Fellow at the British Museum, where she was a curator for nearly 50 years (1974-2023), specialising in jewellery, together with 19th and 20th century decorative arts. She is an international authority on 19th-century jewellery and has written widely on the subject.
Her publications include the two-volume 'Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift of Jewellery to the British Museum' (as co-author, 1984), 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950: a catalogue of the British Museum collection' (1991), 'Cartier 1900-1939' (1997) the catalogue of the exhibition she organised at the British Museum, and 'Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: a mirror to the world' (2010), co-authored with jewellery expert Charlotte Gere, which won the 2011 William Berger Prize for British Art History as a ‘triumph of visual and social history’
She is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and the current President of the Society of Jewellery Historians.
