Sujet

'The Sheepshanks Gallery', South Kensington Museum, c1860s, (1881). Creator: John Watkins.

Légende

'The Sheepshanks Gallery', South Kensington Museum, c1860s, (1881). Interior view showing exhibition space designed by Captain Francis Fowke. This addition to the museum building was created to house a collection of paintings offered to the nation by John Sheepshanks, a wealthy cloth manufacturer from Leeds. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]

Date

1881

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19F36_498

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

64,0Mo (3,4Mo) / 49,3cm x 32,5cm / 5824 x 3840 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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