2-721-316 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Boy playing the bagpipes, c1490-1520, (1881). Etching of a terracotta statuette made in Florence by Andrea della Robbia of the della Robbia family of ceramic artists, in the late 15th-early 16th century. The polychrome enamelled figure is life-size, and was probably originally part of an altarpiece. It was given to the Museum by Prince Albert. 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]