print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- EPH-ME.704
- Title
- Object: The Large Room and The Arched Room
- Description
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Print from a periodical featuring the newly opened library spaces at the British Museum, entitled "The Large Room" and "The Arched Room" and dated 1851; 'The Illustrated London News' (p. 507).
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 7 June 1851
- Dimensions
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Height: 41 centimetres (sheet)
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Width: 28 centimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After describing the library spaces in the Large Room, Cracherode Room, Banksian Room and First and Second Supplementary Rooms, the article goes on to describe the Arched Room as follows:
"Last of all we come to the Arched Room, the termination of the suite of rooms forming the library and the north front of the Museum. The double galleries of this handsome apartment produce an impression of additional height, while their pierced iron floors and the arching of the piers of the recesses give the room an appearance of lightness and elegance which show it in favourable contrast with the others. The design, we understand, was a suggestion of Mr. Panizzi, the keeper of the Printed Books. Here we are prevented by a gate from penetrating farther into the room than is necessary to distinguish its architectural characteristics; the remainder of it being kept private for the accommodation of the gentlemen engaged in the business of the department. Our view is taken from this end of the room, facing the gate".
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Illustrated London News
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- EPH-ME.704