Title

Apelles: design for a mosaic, c1864, (1881). Creator: Bernard Collier.

Caption

Apelles: design for a mosaic, c1864, (1881). Design for a glass mosaic in the 'Kensington Valhalla' at the South Kensington Museum (later renamed the Victoria & Albert Museum), showing a full-length portrait of the Greek painter Apelles of Kos (active 4th century BC), holding a picture of Aphrodite, a palette and brushes, with a Greek vase by his feet. Etching after a painting of 1864 by Edward John Poynter. 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

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F36_424

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,6Mb (3,1Mb) / 10,1in x 24,0in / 3040 x 7198 (300dpi)

Keywords

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