2-721-191 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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]