Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after R. Kerr, 1864.

Date:
25 June 1864
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38586i
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Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after R. Kerr, 1864. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The competition for the new museums on the 1862 Exhibition site was won by Captain Fowke (see no. 38584i in the Wellcome Library catalogue), he died the following year, 1865. Work was then passed on to other hands

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[London] : The builder, 25 June 1864.

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1 print : wood engraving ; image and border 27.8 x 16.8 cm

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Proposed museums, south Kensington. ; W. E. Hodgkin On the verso is a long explanation of the plate, and a protestation from Kerr to the effect that, as Fowke did not obey the rules of the competition, he (Kerr) should have won

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Survey of London, vol. 38, 1975

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Wellcome Collection 38586i

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