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

JOHN WATKINS. '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].

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Author:

JOHN WATKINS

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]

Personalities:

MARSTON • JOHN WATKINS

Technique/material:

ETCHING • engraving

Credit:

Album / The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Releases:

Model: No - Property: No
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Image size:

5824 x 3840 px | 64.0 MB

Print size:

49.3 x 32.5 cm | 19.4 x 12.8 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

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