Competition design for the Royal Manchester Institution of Fine Arts, Manchester: principal floor plan
Architect/Designer | Papworth, John Buonarotti (1775-1847) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Manchester |
Subject Date | 1824 |
Image Date | 1824 |
View | Plan |
Style | Neoclassical |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | PB1309/PAP[99](3) |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Art schools ; Laboratories ; Educational buildings ; Museums ; Societies' buildings |
NOTES: The competition was won by Sir Charles Barry and the building was completed by 1835. It was designed for a learned institution founded in 1823 whose building and collections were transferred to Manchester Corporation in 1882 becoming the Manchester Art Gallery.
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