Montagu House, Bloomsbury Pretoria Plate 19 from Bright's Medical

Plate 19 from Bright's Medical Reports: Diseases of the brain and Nervous System part 2 by Richard Bright (London

William Allen is holding hands with his third wife

Constellation of Cetus (the whale)

Austria and Bulgaria

View of Barnard's Castle and boats on the River Thames

Montagu House, Bloomsbury Pretoria Plate 19 from Bright's MedicalMontagu 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.