Collection: Islington Museum

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Fine Art Collection

  a. Local topographical images About 12,000 prints, watercolours and photographs of the Islington area. b. The Sickert Collection 150 paintings and drawings by Walter Richard Sickert, who spent a lot of time at Highbury Place, and set up a school of painting there. Considered the most influential painter since Turner, Sickert always returned to the borough after long spells on the continent, and even performed at Sadler’s Wells.

  Subjects

  Islington history; Fine Art

  Local History Collection

  Over 1,000 items in a collection which began with small donations since the 1930s, but which has grown since the appointment of a Museum Development Officer in 1988. The collection includes domestic items, a small group of clothes and accessories, items connected with community life and leisure from tea gardens to radical politics, and objects relating to the working life of the area, characterised by small scale businesses, such as watch-making, printing and the rag trade, and large-scale markets. The museum is actively collecting material to represent the diversity of Islington’s population both past and present.

  Subjects

  Watchmaking; Local history; Markets; People

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC