Exhibition of the works of the old masters, associated with ..
This is a Royal Academy of Arts catalogue of 1870, printed in London, listing old master paintings for a public exhibition of British and European art. The pictures are a numbered elevation of a gallery wall hung with paintings under Gothic canopies and a floor plan of the galleries with rooms labelled oil paintings, miniatures, drawings and central hall. A designer might take the orderly grid of numbered wall bays and the tidy architectural plan as models for layout and wayfinding.
