theBlack Obeliskand other Assyrian relics from the palace and temples atCalah (modern Nimrūd)andNineveh;exquisitegold, silver, and shell work from the ancient Mesopotamian city ofUr; the so-calledPortland Vase, a 1st-century-cecameo glassvessel found near Rome; treasure from the 7th-century-ce...
The last work by Fowke was the design for the range of buildings on the north and west sides of the garden, this includes the refreshment rooms, reinstated as the Museum Café in 2006, with the silver gallery above, (at the time the ceramics gallery), the top floor has a splendid ...
“After the many marks of encouragement bestowed on me by a generous public, I thought that I could not better evince my gratitude for such favours, than by disseminating to as wide an extent, and at as cheap a rate as possible, the knowledge of an ART; which though not perhaps the mo...