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The Marlborough ice pails

Ice pails, containing one bottle of wine, were intended to b…
The Pegasus Vase

The body of the vase is made of pale blue jasper, and the re…
Triple pin set

This unusual and richly decorated set of three linked pins w…
William Hogarth's gold admission ticket to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

William Hogarth (1697-1764) , the celebrated painter, was in…
Bronze head from a statue of the Emperor Hadrian

Hadrian (reigned AD 117-138) is famous as the emperor who bu…
Bronze shield

Sheet metal shields such as this are ostensibly defensive ar…
Bronze spoon

This spoon was cast as a single piece in a mould. The decora…
Floor tile

The sketch appears to show a pharos , a Roman lighthouse. Tw…
Front-plate and chape from a dagger sheath

In the Bronze Age swords, daggers and spears were often plac…
Horned helmet

This 'helmet' was dredged from the River Thames at Waterloo …
Iron adze-hammer

The adze-hammer was a boatwright's most important tool. It w…
Luxury imports

At the end of the Iron Age, eating and drinking habits were …
Lyngby axe

This trimmed reindeer antler was found in a gravel pit by th…
Pottery jar with a chariot-race

This colour-coated pottery jar was locally made, either in t…
Pottery mortarium

Roman tastes in food favoured the use of sauces, relishes an…
Selection of blacksmith's tools

This is a selection of the type of tools used to make iron o…
Silver statuette of Harpocrates

The figure, a naked child with a finger to his mouth, depict…
The Battersea cauldron

In the middle of the Bronze Age, around the thirteenth centu…
The Battersea Shield

The Battersea shield was not made for serious warfare. It is…
The Fulham sword

This is the characteristic sword of the Roman legionary at t…
The Witham Shield

This shield was made at the same time as the Chertsey Shield…
Antony Gormley, Attendant, a black and grey ink wash drawing

This drawing belong to a series from the first half of the 1…
Beatrix Potter, Flopsy Bunnies, a drawing in pen and ink with watercolour

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) is among the best-loved of childr…
Edward Burne-Jones, St George fighting the Dragon, a pencil drawing

This carefully-finished drawing was formerly in the collecti…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, London Bridge, a drawing

The great Venetian painter Canaletto came to London in 1746,…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, The Thames and Westminster Bridge from the north, pen and ink with wash over black chalk

This splendid drawing is a reminder that the grandest approa…
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, The western arches of Westminster Bridge, pen and ink with wash over black chalk

This drawing shows the western end of Westminster Bridge ove…
John Smith, Madam Elizabeth Brownlowe, a mezzotint after a painting by Willem Wissing

The mezzotint process was invented during the seventeenth ce…
Luke Clennell, The Fair on the Thames, February 4th 1814, a hand-coloured etching

The medieval London Bridge was built on nineteen narrow arch…
Paul Sandby, View from the Gardens of Somerset House, Looking East and West, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

These panoramic drawings by Paul Sandby (1730-1809) were mad…
Sir Peter Lely, Portrait of a Girl, a chalk drawing

Born in Holland, Peter Lely (1618-80) arrived in England to …
Théodore Géricault, The Coal Waggon, a black chalk watercolour

Although he attempted some formal training (including a spel…
Thomas Gainsborough, Self-portrait of the artist sketching, a pencil drawing

Thomas Gainsborough sometimes said that while painting portr…
Wenceslaus Hollar, View of the Tower of London, a drawing

The drawing was made in pen and brown ink with watercolour o…
William Henry Hunt, Bushey Churchyard, a pen and ink drawing with watercolour

'Bird's nest' Hunt (1790-1864) earned his nickname for his s…
George Dance, Chevalier D'Eon

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée D’Eon de Beau…
Astrolabe quadrant from Canterbury

This extremely rare instrument is likely to have belonged to…
Magdalene Odundo, ceramic vessel

Magdalene Odundo (born 1950) grew up in Kenya but settled in…
Admission ticket to the British Museum

The British Museum opened its doors to visitors for the firs…
Application for a post on the staff of The British Museum

Frank Derrett was born in London in 1883 and was educated at…
Appointment of the British Museum's Head Housemaid

In 1772 the Archbishop of Canterbury asked the Principal Lib…
Arthur Conan Doyle's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

All prospective users of The British Museum Library had to a…
Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson, The Hall and Stair Case, British Museum, an etching

Montagu House was the first home of the British Museum. When…
Bram Stoker's application for a ticket for the British Museum Library

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) describes himself in this letter as …
Catalogue of casts of classical sculpture in the British Museum

Today, replicas of many objects from The British Museum's co…
Charles Townley, a draft catalogue of sculptures at Park Street, Westminster

At the end of the eighteenth century, Charles Townley's magn…
Charles Townley's sketch for a proposed Museum extension

In 1791 the collector Charles Townley was elected onto the B…
Deed of bargain and sale of Montagu House

In 1675 Ralph Montagu bought Baber's Field, on what was then…
Design for illuminating the front gate of Montagu House

The reign of King George III began on 25 October 1760, thus …
Design for the title page of A Catalogue of Benefactions to the British Museum...

One of the main series of records of the British Museum is c…
Donald Macbeth, One of the Ethnography Galleries, a photograph

In 1883, with the move of the Natural History collections of…
Donald Macbeth, The Manuscripts Saloon, a photograph

This room is on the ground floor of the East Wing of the Mus…
Early accounts of the British Museum

Between 1761 and 1803 the Principal Librarian's clerk kept a…
East Wing exterior of The British Museum (the King's Library), a print

The East Wing, built between 1823 and 1828, was the first pa…
Extract from Charles Townley's Will

From the time of his first Grand Tour in 1768 until his deat…
Frederick York, Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase, a photograph

It is early morning in 1875 in the Main Entrance Hall of The…
Frederick York, Mastodon and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, photographs

In the nineteenth century there were 'dinosaurs' of sorts on…
Frederick York, The British and Medieval Room, a photograph

In 1875 the Museum Guide Book stated that this room containe…
Frederick York, The Central Saloon, a photograph

This photograph of 1875 shows one of the most popular exhibi…
Frederick York, The Eastern Zoological Gallery , a photograph

The Eastern Zoological Gallery used to be above the King's L…
Frederick York, The Ethnography Gallery, a photograph

Between 1850 and 1900 the size of The British Museum's Ethno…
Frederick York, The First Egyptian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
Frederick York, The Grenville Library, a photograph

Sir Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) was a Trustee of The Britis…
Frederick York, The King's Library, a photograph

In 1823 King George IV presented his father's library to the…
Frederick York, The Mammalian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
George Saunders, Design for the West Wing (elevation and section)

In 1803 George Saunders, the British Museum's architect, was…
George Saunders, Plan of The British Museum site

Montagu House, built in 1686, was the first home of The Brit…
Henry Wood's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) used the Reading Room of The B…

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