Title

Design for a lunette with portrait of Prince Albert, c1863, (1881). Creator: A Reid.

Caption

Design for a lunette with portrait of Prince Albert, c1863, (1881). Decorative double arch and screen surmounted by a mosaic portrait of Albert, Prince Consort (1819-1861). The two openings of the screen are framed by twisted columns of ornate metalwork in this proposal for the north end of the interior of the Prince Consort's Gallery in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Albert, prior to his death in 1861, had been an important figure in the establishing of the Museum and of the surrounding area of South Kensington, known as Albertopolis. Woodcut after a design by Godfrey Sykes. 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_430

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,8Mb (2,6Mb) / 12,9in x 18,9in / 3861 x 5681 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany Latin England people male interior man men architecture archway arch German arts country shape book guy British museum English design decorative ornate royal location Victorian century Britain inside interior design literature royalty concept prince interior decoration Arched lunette Architectural Feature 19th century graphic design Indoors B W Victoria and Albert Museum nineteenth century The Print Collector Museum of Ornamental Art South Kensington Museum Godfrey Sykes engraving woodcut wood engraving Victoria & Albert Museum Prince Albert Albert Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Saxe-Coburg-Gotha V&A Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Consort V&A Museum Sampson Low The South Kensington Museum Marston Prince Consort's Gallery A Reid Reid A A. Reid Reid A. Sykes Godfrey