Selected Design for Completion of South Kensington Museum

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Artist/Maker	Webb, Aston (Sir) (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (printed)

Print, folding plate showing the front and side view, from the south-west, of a design for South Kensington Museum.

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Categories	Architecture Prints History of the V&A
Object type	Print
Title	Selected Design for Completion of South Kensington Museum (published title)
Materials and techniques	Process engraving Process Engraving
Brief description	Print, 'Selected Design for Completion of South Kensington Museum', process engraving, Sir Aston Webb, 1891
Physical description	Print, folding plate showing the front and side view, from the south-west, of a design for South Kensington Museum.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 40.3cm Size of sheet width: 59.1cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions	(Lettered with title etc.)
Object history	This print is a folding plate between pages 124 and 125 from Volume 61 of The Builder, 15 August 1891.
Historical context	The foundation stone of the new Victoria and Albert Museum building, for which this is a design, was laid by Queen Victoria in May 1889, and it was opened by King Edward VII on 26 June 1909. This design shows considerable variations from the completed building
Place depicted	Victoria and Albert Museum
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1334-1963

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O698081/selected-design-for-completion-of-print-webb-aston-sir/

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