Natural History Museum Entrance Hall London Antique Print Picture 1896 RL#131

Description: Natural History Museum Entrance Hall London 1896 Antique Print A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side. Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm. Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description. All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.—We first enter the Great Hall, 170ft. long, 97ft. wide, 72ft. high, with a monstrous skeleton of the cachalot, or sperm-whale, 50ft. long, in the centre. Branching out of the Central Hall, near its southern extremity, are two long galleries, 278ft. long by about 50ft. wide. These galleries are repeated on the first floor, and in a modified form on the second floor also; the white marble statue of Charles Darwin, by Boehm, is placed on the top of the first flight of stairs, facing the Entrance Hall of the Museum. The whole collection is divided into the Mineralogical, Botanical, Zoological, and Geological departments. The first of these is located in the gallery on the first floor of the east wing; the second occupies the upper floor of the east wing; the third takes the west wing; while Geology finds a place on the ground floor of the east wing. Besides these there is a fifth, or introductory, collection, in the Central Hall, which is intended as an introduction to all the others. The west side of the gallery round this hail contains a very interesting collection of birds, with their nests, eggs, and young, as in Nature; while the east wing is occupied by the Gould collection of humming-birds, which is described in a special catalogue. Another room on the ground floor, behind the great staircase, contains the British Zoological collection. One then passes to the Geological and Palaeontological collection, which occupies a basement of the east wing, to the right. The various galleries extending to the north of the Reptile Gallery are each about 140ft. long, and contain the fossil fishes and invertebrate animals. On entering the main portal the visitor passes under the "Monkey Arch," so named from the climbing monkeys that form its principal decoration.

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: DEREHAM

End Time: 2024-12-12T20:28:55.000Z

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