Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Two men attack a turtle

Two men attack a turtle with a sword and a mace

Mrs Shirley showing the Queen the Warping machine

He is shown on the famous occasion when he demonstrated to flattering courtiers that God alone can command the tides

'Fafner in his Cave'

A man at the wheel of his car dressed in a driving coat and goggles

Montagu House, Bloomsbury mb-artistname William Woolnoth Two men attack a turtleMontagu House, Bloomsbury, 18th century, (1908). The house was purchased in 1754 as the first home of the British Museum and in 1757 the gardens were opened to the public, two years before visitors were admitted to the Museum's collections. The seventeenth century building was gradually replaced by the present Museum buildings between 1823 and 1852.