MARC Record view

001 $ 04/3330
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220114105905.5
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
110 2 # $a British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
245 1 2 $a A description of the collection of ancient marbles in the British Museum : with engravings
260 # # $a London : $b Printed by W. Bulmer and co., and sold at the British Museum ... [etc.], $c 1812-61
300 # # $a 11 v. : $b front (v. 6 ) ill., plates (part fold.) ; $c 32 cm
500 # # $a Imprint varies
508 # # $a Parts I-IV, by T. Combe; pts. V, VII-X, by E. Hawkins; pt. IV, by C. R. Cockerell; pt. XI, by S. Birch
510 0 # $a J. Scott, The pleasures of antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome (2003); I. Jenkins, Archaeologists and aesthetes: the sculpture collections of the British Museum in the 19th century (1992); B. Cook, The Townley marbles (1985); R. Westmacott, Account of the arrangement of the collection of antique sculpture lately placed in the British Museum (1808).
520 2 # $a This was the first detailed catalogue of the ancient statuary collected in the British Museum. The Museum had only recently created its Department of Antiquities (1807) and opened a Townley Gallery (1808). In 1817 it created a temporary Elgin Room.
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1821.
610 2 4 $a British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
650 # 0 $a Sculpture, Roman
653 # # $a Sculpture, Greek - Sculpture, Roman - Great Britain - London - History
653 # # $a Collections - Museums - Great Britain - London - History
655 # 0 $a Catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Coombe, Taylor $d 1774-1826.
700 1 # $a Hawkins $d 1780-1867.
700 1 # $a Cockerell $d 1788-1863.
700 1 # $a Birch $d 1813-1885.
700 1 # $a Alexander $e draughtsman
852 8 # $d 1821: B-4-09.