Bullock's Museum. 22, Piccadilly.
No.18, of R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. June 1 1810 at 101 Strand; London.
Hand coloured engraving. 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Offset from text.
The interior of Bullock's Museum, also known as the London Museum and the Egyptian Hall (or Museum), centred on a display of stuffed animals including an elephant, zebra and polar bear. William Bullock (c.1773-1849), a traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the museum in 1812. Built at a cost of £16,000, it contained 15,000 items, collected according to the guidebook 'during seventeen years of arduous research at a cost of £30,000'. Admission was l shilling or 1 guinea for an annual ticket. Over the years special exhibits included Napoleon's carriage, 'the superb Feather, Cloak, and and Helmet, presented by the king of Owyhee to, and worn [by] our Unfortunate Circumnavigator [Captain James Cook] a few days before he fell', Giovanni Battista Belzoni's finds in Egypt, and and James Ward's gigantic painting 'Allegory of Waterloo'. Thomas Shotter Boys' view of Piccadilly for 'London As It Is' shows the exterior of the Egyptian Hall during the exhibition of George Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio'.
[Ref: 61419] £95.00
Hand coloured engraving. 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Offset from text.
The interior of Bullock's Museum, also known as the London Museum and the Egyptian Hall (or Museum), centred on a display of stuffed animals including an elephant, zebra and polar bear. William Bullock (c.1773-1849), a traveller, naturalist, and antiquarian, established the museum in 1812. Built at a cost of £16,000, it contained 15,000 items, collected according to the guidebook 'during seventeen years of arduous research at a cost of £30,000'. Admission was l shilling or 1 guinea for an annual ticket. Over the years special exhibits included Napoleon's carriage, 'the superb Feather, Cloak, and and Helmet, presented by the king of Owyhee to, and worn [by] our Unfortunate Circumnavigator [Captain James Cook] a few days before he fell', Giovanni Battista Belzoni's finds in Egypt, and and James Ward's gigantic painting 'Allegory of Waterloo'. Thomas Shotter Boys' view of Piccadilly for 'London As It Is' shows the exterior of the Egyptian Hall during the exhibition of George Catlin's 'North American Indian Portfolio'.
[Ref: 61419] £95.00