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Teaching from the Collections, an engraving

The Clore Centre for Education follows a long association wi…
Merman: part monkey, part fish

This 'merman' is made up of the dried parts of a monkey, wit…
Arthur Conan Doyle's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

All prospective users of The British Museum Library had to a…
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…
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 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 First Egyptian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
Henry Wood's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) used the Reading Room of The B…
Memorial from the National Sunday League on the Sunday opening of the British Museum

For more than a century the British Museum has opened on Sun…
Poster advertising the sale of building materials

Between 1823 and 1852 the new British Museum building design…
Sir Robert Smirke, Design for showcases for The British Museum

As the present-day Museum building was erected, between the …
Sir Robert Smirke, The South Wing, a drawing

By 1841 the East Wing, North Wing and half of the West Wing …
The British Museum Security Staff, by an unknown photographer

Here we see The British Museum Security staff photographed o…
The Eastern Zoological Gallery in the East Wing of The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The two-storey East Wing of The British Museum was designed …
The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery on the introduction of the electric light, an engraving

Until the late nineteenth century The British Museum was lit…
The Grand Saloon and the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, an engraving

The engraving shows the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery soon afte…
Brass whist marker

Card games were very popular as a form of home entertainment…
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, £5 note

This panorama gives a multi-faceted view of nineteenth-centu…
Copper advertising token for John Thornley, tea merchant

Throughout the nineteenth century, advertising was used by B…
Dundee Union Bank, £1 note

At the top of this note the three figures of Britannia, Hibe…
Early Victorian tea set

In England matching pottery and porcelain tea wares began to…
Frederick York, The British and Medieval Room, a photograph

In 1875 the Museum Guide Book stated that this room containe…
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…
Invitation to a private view of the Round Reading Room

By the early 1850s the British Museum Library badly needed a…
Letter from John T. Wood to J. Winter Jones, Principal Librarian of The British Museum

John Turtle Wood (1821-1890) was a professional architect, b…
Notes on the application of Henry Hook, V.C., for a post as a labourer at The British Museum

The man whose name appears on this document could not fill i…
Report by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge to the Trustees of The British Museum

Between December 1898 and January 1899, Wallis Budge visited…
Robert Smirke, South Elevation of the North Wing, a drawing

The North Wing was designed by Sir Robert Smirke (1780-1867)…
Roger Fenton, The Discus-thrower (discobolos), a photograph

In this unusual photograph by Roger Fenton we see a famous R…
Roger Fenton, The Mineral Gallery, a photograph

In 1857 the Mineral collection of The British Museum was dis…
Roger Fenton, The Third Graeco-Roman Saloon on Artists' Day, a photograph

This photograph by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), the famous Vict…
The Arched Room in The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The Arched Room in The British Museum was built between 1837…
The Entrance Gates to The British Museum, an engraving

For almost 150 years the front of The British Museum has bee…
The Long Room of The British Museum, an engraving

In 1845 it was decided to build a long, single-storey galler…
The Main Entrance Hall and Staircase, a print

The Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase of the British Mu…
The sixth Reading Room of The British Museum, an engraving

The British Museum held library collections from 1753 until …
Title deed of the 'perimeter properties' of The British Museum

By the last years of the nineteenth century, The British Mus…
Visitors on the Colonnade of The British Museum, an engraving

The Great Exhibition of 1851, centred on Crystal Palace in L…
William Sievier, British Museum Porter, at the gate of Montagu House, a lithograph

The gate of Montagu House was in fact a doorway opening off …
Bronze medal celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, by Leonard Wyon after Sir Frederic Leighton and Sir Edgar

The artist Frederic Leighton (1830-96) was made a baronet in…
Carlisle City and District Banking Company, proof of £5 note

Early banknotes were printed from copper plates and usually …
Cast bronze medal of Charles Darwin by Alphonse Legros

Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) was a French painter who lived i…
Commercial Bank of Scotland, design for £20 note

In the nineteenth century, Scottish notes were more likely t…
Queen Victoria's Jubilee souvenir badge

Large numbers of these badges were sold as souvenirs of Quee…
Steel dies for a silver crown of Queen Victoria

A coin die is the annealed (hardened) steel stamp used to le…
Uhlhorn Press advertising token

The Great Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park…
£5 note of the Scarborough Bank, York City and County Banking Company

This note is dominated by an imposing view of York Minster e…
Electroplate teapot, designed by Christopher Dresser and made by James Dixon and Sons

Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was the most brilliant and p…
Edward Lear, L is much disturbed by several large flies, a drawing in pen and ink

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is most famous as the author of vers…
James Sharples, The Forge, a steel engraving

James Sharples (1825-92) was a self-taught English artist bo…
Sudanese slit drum

By 1885 he had established the Mahdist State, and although h…
Frederick York, The Ethnography Gallery, a photograph

Between 1850 and 1900 the size of The British Museum's Ethno…
Plan of the Mausoleum Room

In 1856 the British Museum acquired most of the remains of t…
Roger Fenton, The South Front, a photograph

For many people, Sir Robert Smirke's massive nineteenth-cent…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

In 1854, work began on the construction of a new domed Readi…
William Lake Price, The Reading Room under construction, a photograph

Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867) designed The British Museum bu…
Cheque of Barclay's Bank

This simple unissued cheque tells part of the history of a w…
Primrose League badge

The Primrose League was formed in 1883 by admirers of Benjam…
Trial striking of a silver 1 baht of Rama IV Mongkut

Mongkut (reigned 1851-68), famous in the West as the hero of…
Cup and cover, designed by William Burges

The cup and cover are made of turned maple wood with silver …
Earthenware double-spouted vessel, by Christopher Dresser

The Linthorpe Art Pottery was jointly established in 1879 by…
Gold and enamel pendant brooch made by the jewellers Phillips Brothers

The two cobras flanking the agate and that on the loop show …
Gold necklace set with the heads of hummingbirds

'Novelty' jewellery in the nineteenth century referred to je…
Lustre pottery dish, made by William De Morgan

The multi-talented William De Morgan (1839-1917) began his c…

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