A brief history of: Vampires | V&A
From a pressed specimen of a dead bat, to a 19th-century photograph of gothic ruins, to an AIDS awareness poster from the mid-1990s, explore the legacy of Bram Stoker's classic horror story 'Dracula' across the V&A's collections.
Published in 1897 at the height of Gothic literature, Stoker's shocking portrayal of the suave and seductive, yet deadly Count Dracula, soon came to embody popular representations of the vampire in art, literature and film. Join us as curators Lydia Caston and Ruth Hibbard unbox objects from our Prints, Posters, Photography and Drawings collections to reveal Dracula's haunting presence and lasting influence as a symbol of death, decay, degeneration and contagion.
00:00 What is a vampire?
00:30 Who is Dracula?
01:34 Vlad the Impaler
02:48 Whitby Abbey photograph
04:40 Bat drawing and specimen
07:03 Pure Evil and Satan Sowing Terror prints
09:28 Vampires in film: Hammer Horror poster
11:54 Blood, sex and contagion: Aids awareness poster
See objects yourself in our Prints and Drawings Study Room: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/study-room...
Discover more in our Photography, Print and Poster collections:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/pho...
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/print
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/pos...
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