Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

Opens: 06/03/2010 Closes: 04/07/2010 V&A, London

This exhibition is dedicated to the 18th-century collector Horace Walpole and his grand residence, Strawberry Hill. It recreates some of the rooms of the Georgian gothic revival house, and it surveys Walpole's hefty collection, which happens to include paintings by Joshua Reynolds and a lock of Mary Tudor's hair.

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