2-721-234 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Design for a ceiling', c1860s, (1881). Decorative design for 'one of the two staircases leading to the lecture theatre' at the South Kensington Museum in London. The staircases were decorated with Frank Moody's ceramic tile mosaic pavement. The Della Robbia ware, a modern version of a Renaissance technique, was produced by the English ceramic company Minton, Hollins & Co. Woodcut after Moody. 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]