Felicity Myrone is an art historian and curator of works on paper. She worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the British Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings before joining the British Library as Curator of Topography in 2006. In 2015 she became Lead Curator, Western Prints and Drawings, with responsibility for prints and drawings in the Library’s printed books, manuscripts, maps and music collections.
She has led an externally funded team cataloguing and digitising George III’s maps and views, the King’s Topographical Collection, and managed a related research project, Transforming Topography. One outcome of the latter is the British Library webspace, Picturing Places.
Felicity’s current projects involve writing the first handbook to the Library’s prints and drawings collections with the support of a 2021 Getty Paper Project publication grant and leading a research project on prints held by both the British Library and British Museum.
Both build on her 2019-20 Paul Mellon Mid-Career Fellowship, Art in the Library, which investigated how the fused and intertwined institutional histories of the British Museum, Natural History Museum and British Library have shaped attitudes to prints and drawings.
