Title

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

Caption

'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

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F36_498

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

64,0Mb (3,4Mb) / 19,4in x 12,8in / 5824 x 3840 (300dpi)

Keywords

leisure building people interior architecture arts paintings doorway art book museum door doors Victorian collection century gallery inside picture literature pictures exhibition visitors visitor art gallery 19th century Indoors B W Victoria and Albert Museum nineteenth century philanthropy The Print Collector Museum of Ornamental Art South Kensington Museum etching engraving Victoria & Albert Museum V&A John Francis Fowke Fowke Francis art centre John Watkins Watkins John V&A Museum Sampson Low Captain Francis Fowke The South Kensington Museum Marston Captain Francis Sheepshanks Gallery John Sheepshanks Sheepshanks