British Museum Collection (#29)

Monument to the Memory of Sir Hans Sloane, the Founder of the British Museum, In
MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF SIR HANS SLOANE, THE FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, IN CHELSEA CHURCH YARD, LONDON, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Drinking Fountains at the British Museum, London, Uk, 1860

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, THE EGYPTIAN SALOON, LONDON, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

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OLD EGYPTIAN LADYs WIG, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Egypt, engraving 1879

Building Tower
Circa 1450, Men at work building a circular tower with large stones. Original Artwork: Manuscript in the collection of the British Museum, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

British Museum Tank
circa 1938: A tank standing on a pile of earth outside the British Museum, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Stuffed Giraffes
The staircase of the old British Museum in Montague House. Stuffed giraffes at the head of the staircase are being admired by visitors. Original Artwork: Painting - George Scharf the elder

circa 1950: British Museum
circa 1950: Exterior of the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions/Getty Images)

AMERICAN COINS AND PAPER MONEY: 1. American 20 Dollar Bill (1775); 2. Maryland Shilling, 1788 (from the British Museum); 3. George the Third American Half-penny (from the British Museum); 4

EGYPTIAN MUMMY AND CASE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. London, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Monument to the Memory of Sir Hans Sloane, the Founder of the British Museum, In
MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF SIR HANS SLOANE, THE FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, IN CHELSEA CHURCH YARD, LONDON, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Illustration of war ship in Anglo - Saxon manuscript
Norse dragon - prowed ship. Anglo - Saxon manuscript, 10th Century. British Museum, London

THE BRITISH MUSEUM, THE EGYPTIAN SALOON, LONDON, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Source Size = 1562 x 2129
OLD EGYPTIAN LADYs WIG, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Egypt, engraving 1879

Drinking Fountains at the British Museum, London, Uk, 1860

Police officers with women during Great Depression
Great Depression in Britain 1929 - 1936. In 1931 Britain left the Gold Standard. Social benefits, the wages of government workers, and naval pay, were all cut. Demonstrations were countrywide

England, London, Mesopotamian Art, Bronze panel door showing Assyrians offering tributes to the Phoenician King of Tyre
Mesopotamia Art - 9th century - Bronze panel door - Assyrians and offer tributes to the Phoenician King of Tyre and Sidon; below, the storming of Hazazu in northern Syria (848 b. C.) from Balawet

British Museum Reading Room, artwork
Reading Room, British Museum, London, UK, artwork. This was a larger replacement for the original reading room. It was built in the central courtyard of the museum building

British Museum library, 19th century C015 / 6071
British Museum library. 19th-century artwork of people consulting books in the reading room at the British Museum, London, UK

Gustavus Brander, British naturalist C016 / 5303
Gustavus Brander (1720-1787), British naturalist. Brander, from a Swedish family, was a trustee of the British Museum from 1761

Sir Hans Sloane, British naturalist C016 / 5012
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), British naturalist. Sloane, a practising physician, built up large collections, including many plants brought back to Britain from the West Indies in 1689

E. Trewavas, British ichthyologist C013 / 6227
Ethelwynne Trewavas (1900-1993), British ichthyologist. Trewavas, who continued the work of Charles Tate Regan, was Curator of Fish at the Natural History Museum

British Museum (Natural History) New Fossil Mammal Gallery P
A poster advertising the New Fossil Mammal Gallery Pleistocene Section which opened in 1970. One of the many fossils displayed in the gallery was a Giant Irish Elk, which is depicted in this poster

The Wellington Tree Cupboard
This tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium

Parliamentary Enquiry into the Affairs of the British Museum (1835-1836). Annotated by J.E. Gray. Catalogue reference DF 206/4

Tommaso Salvadori (1835-1923)
Count Adelaro Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was one of ten eminent ornithologists who assisted Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Head of the Bird Section. Image shows Tommaso working on flamingoes, c. 1890

Natural History display at Montagu House
Staircase near the entrance of the old British Museum in Montagu House, 1845. This housed the original collection of the Natural History Museum, London. From a watercolour by George Scharf (1788-1860)

Montagu House, Bloomsbury
A watercolour, by an unknown artist, showing Montagu House, Bloomsbury, the first home of the British Museum

Amblypterus, palaeoniscid fish

Erasipteron bolsoveri, dragonfly
Impression from the wing of an extinct dragonfly-like insect found by Malcolm Spenser in Bolsover coal mine in 1978

The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

LONDON: MONTAGUE HOUSE. The north front and garden of Montagu (also known as Montague) House in Bloomsbury, London, later to become the first home of the British Museum

LONDON: MONTAGU HOUSE. Montagu (also known as Montague) House in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, later to become the first home of the British Museum. Line engraving, English, 1714

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1857. The Main Reading Room of the British Museum, London, England, which had seats for about 400 readers, was built in the years 1854-57

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1848. Scene in the Xanthian Room at the British Museum, London, England, shortly after its opening. Wood engraving, 1848

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1845. Facade of the British Museum. Wood engraving, 1845

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1845. The British Museum in London, England, undergoing renovations. Wood engraving, 1845

BRITISH MUSEUM, c1860. The Egyptian Room at the British Museum, London, England. Steel engraving, English, c1860

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1860. Drinking fountains at the British Museum, London, England. Wood engraving, 1860

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1845. Visitors in the new room at the British Museum, London, England. Wood engraving, 1845

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1860. Elgin Room. London. Steel engraving, English

BRITISH MUSEUM, 1844. Facade of the British Museum, London, England. Wood engraving, 1844, after the design by Sir Robert Smirke

BRITISH MUSEUM, c1860. The reading room at the British Museum. Steel engraving, English, c1860

MATTHEW MATY (1718-1776). Principal librarian of the British Museum. Stipple engraving, English, 1800

1861 Du Chaillu ape The Gorilla
Frontispiece illustration, natural tone, of Paul Du Chaillus 1861 " Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa" published by John Murray, London

1830 Montagu House natural history museum
An image of Montagu (Monatgue) house and its grand staircase in the British Museum around 1830, (Great Russell street). Published in Walter Thornbury " Old and New London" Cassell and Co

1830 Old British Museum Montagu House
The British Museum in Montagu House, Great Russel (sic) Street. Engraved by William Henshall from a study by T.H. Shepherd

1697 Grays Inn first British handaxe
Steel plate engraving with later tinting of a handaxe discovered near the bones of an elephant by John Conyers in London 1697

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