Elenor Ling

Senior Curator Prints & Drawings

Elenor Ling is Senior Curator Prints & Drawings. She is responsible for the care, interpretation and display of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s print collection, comprising 125,000 objects, and has a particular interest in histories and methodologies of collecting. Elenor was co-curator of the major, interdisciplinary exhibition The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces (2021), and was sole curator of several exhibitions in the Print Gallery, including Changing Faces: Anthony Van Dyck as an etcher (2009), Work, rest and play: women and children in prints after Chardin (2012), Cradled in Caricature: Visual humour in satirical prints and drawings (2015‒16), An Amateur’s Passion: Lord Fitzwilliam’s print collection (2016) and Virtue, Vice and the Senses: Prints 1540‒1660 (2021).

Elenor is currently working on a digitasation project on prints by David Lucas after John Constable, as well as researching the print albums belonging to Lord Fitzwilliam (1745‒1816)

Email: el275@cam.ac.uk