A Higher Ambition

If you're interested in Victorian design, London's V&A Museum is celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Owen Jones with an exhibition of his work: A Higher Ambition: Owen Jones (1809-74). It's in the Julie & Robert Breckman Prints and Drawings Gallery, Room 90, and Paintings, Room 88a, admission free. This illustration by William Simpson shows Owen Jones' design for the internal decoration of The Great Exhibition Building of 1851. The exhibition continues until 22 November. Click the title link for more information.