Title

Giovanni Cimabue: design for a mosaic, c1868, (1881). Creator: Bernard Collier.

Caption

Giovanni Cimabue: design for a mosaic, c1868, (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 Italian painter Cimabue (c1240-c1302) holding paintbrushes. Etching after a painting made c1868 by Sir Frederic Leighton. 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_431

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

63,2Mb (3,2Mb) / 10,2in x 24,0in / 3063 x 7213 (300dpi)

Keywords

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