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These casts served as models of design for the schools' students.\r\n\r\nThe first Government School of Design was established in London in 1837 at Somerset House.  From 1837 to 1851, eighteen more schools were founded in provincial cities such as Manchester and Birmingham.  The schools were set up by a government Committee on Arts and Manufactures 'for the purpose of affording Instruction to those engaged in the practice of ornamental Art, and the preparation of Designs for the various Manufactures of this country' (Wainwright 2002, p. 5).  The Committee immediately began acquiring a collection of plaster casts for the schools, so that their students could copy and sketch from the best examples of ancient and modern ornamental art.  After his substantial contribution to organising the 1851 Great Exhibition of modern British manufactures, Henry Cole was appointed the Head of the Schools of Design in 1852.  He expanded the school's collection to include not only casts, but also electrotypes, modern drawings, and decorative art for a new museum that could be visited by the public.  This museum, the progenitor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, first opened at Marlborough House in 1852.","briefDescription":"Relief panel showing a griffin seated above a wreath of rosettes. Portion of a frieze of the interior of the porch of Santa Maria de' Miracoli (Brescia). 19th century plaster cast of 16th century Italian original.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wornum, R.M.  <i>Catalogue of Ornamental Cast in the Possession of the Department. Third Division, Renaissance Styles. </i>  London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. pp. 26-27. cat. no. 8."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wainwright, Clive and Gere, Charlotte (ed.), 'The making of the South Kensington Museum I: The Government Schools of Design and the founding collection, 1837-51.' <i>Journal of the History of Collections</i> 14:1 (2002) pp. 3-24."}],"production":"19th century copy of 16th century Italian original.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"St. Mark","id":"N987"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"lion","id":"x39903"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["REPRO.1851-69"],"accessionNumberNum":"69","accessionNumberPrefix":"REPRO","accessionYear":1851,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LW9119"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}