This elevation is a design for the Lecture Theatre block (the north side of the present Museum quadrangle) of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The form of the building was designed by Francis Fowke, and is seen here largely as executed, replete with recessed first-floor balcony, twisted columns and paired brick pilasters. A number of small changes would, however, be wrought before the façade was built: the central doorway would be placed in a square-headed opening, the roofline statues altered, and the tympanums of the pediment and round-headed first-floor arches would be decorated with scenes of figures executed in mosiac. These decorative aspects were chiefly designed by Godfrey Sykes. Had Francis Fowke's grand scheme for the Victoria and Albert Museum been carried out in full, the grand Lecture Theatre façade would have been a centrepiece that was visible from Cromwell Road: Fowke intended the south side of the quadrangle to have been finished with an open screen, flanked by curving colonnades (see for instance E.1023-1927). Instead, the south side was eventually closed with the National Art Library range (begun ca. 1878), which Aston Webb later flanked with the current buildings fronting Cromwell Road (begun 1899).