Made ca. 1874, this block plan of the Victoria and Albert Museum shows both existing permanent buildings – primarily occupying the northern half of the site, and coloured to show the year in which they had opened – and one of Henry Scott’s proposals for completing the southern part of the site. Scott’s designs initially drew heavily on the concepts put forward by his predecessor, Francis Fowke (d. 1865), including the idea of a large forecourt bordering Cromwell Road (see for instance E.1023-1927, E.1351-1979 and E.1353-1979). This drawing shows Scott’s proposals evolving: the south range of the present Museum quadrangle has become more substantial and a block of galleries appended to its southern side, to make space for which the forecourt has been halved in size. Owing to the difficulty of securing funds from the Treasury, only a small part of this would be carried out: the current National Art Library range and two blocks protruding south (now Rooms 41 and 46). Both begun in the late 1870s, these buildings did not have decorative façades, giving the Museum an unfinished appearance. Between 1899 and 1909, the southern portion of the site was eventually developed to designs by Aston Webb.