ABSTRACT
In author’s publication, The Treasures of Art in Great Britain, the arrangement of the sculpture in the British Museum has been greatly improved. The Egyptian and Assyrian monuments have, in the first place, been disposed in that chronological succession which alone best unites the highest instruction with the greatest enjoyment. With the Assyrian monuments are also seen other antiquities of the same nation and of the same period—the ivory reliefs and the bronze vessels being deposited in glass cases along the centre of the same gallery. The arrangement of the Greek and Roman marbles, though the space did not permit of so strictly chronological an order as with the foregoing, is also much more satisfactory. The chief alteration consists in the fact that the sculptures from the pediments of the Parthenon have been removed from the hall containing the reliefs from the Parthenon, into a neighbouring room, which, though smaller, is also lighted from above.
