2-703-833 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Colonnaded Front of the British Museum on the Site of the Old Montague House', c1935. The British Museum in Bloomsbury, central London, was originally established by Sir Hans Sloane in 1759. The present neoclassical building, dating from 1857, was designed by Sir Robert Smirke. The Museum's collections of some 8 million items is among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, and include objects and works of art dating from prehistory. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]