2-721-314 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Water-Colour Gallery', 1860s, (1881). Interior of a room containing a display of watercolour drawings in the South Kensington Museum in London. The design consisted of a series of bays, each surmounted by a lunette (semi-circular area) framed by a pair of pilasters painted to resemble marble, and supporting an acanthus-leaf corbel with a roof bracket above. The decor was designed by Richard Redgrave, first Keeper of Paintings at the Museum. 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]