Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 / With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

by Edward Edwards

Collected by Francis Hargrave. Purchased by Parliament for the sum of £8000.

[See Book II, Chapter 3.]

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1815. The Phigaleian Marbles.

Discovered, in 1812, amongst the ruins of Ictinus’ Temple of Apollo ‘the Deliverer’ at Phigaleia, in Arcadia, built about B.C. 430. Purchased in 1815, for the sum of £15,000.

[See Book II, Chapter 2.]

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1815. The Von Moll Library and Museum.

Collected by the Baron Von Moll (Died ...). Purchased (at Munich) for the sum of £4768 (including the contingent expenses), out of the Fund bequeathed by Major Edwards.

The Library of Baron Von Moll comprised nearly 20,000 volumes, and a considerable Collection of Portraits and other Prints. His Museum consisted of an extensive Herbarium and a Collection of Minerals. The purchase was completed in 1816.