Interior of the British Museum reading room, engraved view – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Interior of the British Museum reading room, engraved view, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Interior of the British Museum reading room, engraved view
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The British Museum's reading room, shown here in an engraved interior view, was once one of the most famous study spaces in the world. Its great circular dome, completed in 1857, rose over a ring of desks where scholars, writers and clerks worked under a skylight. Engravings like this one helped carry the room's grand proportions to readers who would never visit London, and its lines of shelving and rows of tables still convey the hushed order of a serious library.
| Original scan | 3,982 × 2,404 px · prints to 13 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif15551_ReadingroomoftheBritishMuseum |
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