The Elgin Marbles room in the British Museum. Lord Elgin's collection of perished statuary from the Parthenon was purchased by the British government in 1816. Steel engraving by Radclyffe after an illustration by Llewellyn Jewitt from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841.

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