2-721-258 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Sheepshanks Gallery', South Kensington Museum, c1860s, (1881). Interior view showing exhibition space designed by Captain Francis Fowke. This addition to the museum building was created to house a collection of paintings offered to the nation by John Sheepshanks, a wealthy cloth manufacturer from Leeds. 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]