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The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from being the only place that people encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the late 185
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- Author
- Kate Nichols
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780199596461
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, History & Criticism, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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