Abstract
This museum building is, of course, one of several that were built following the fashion set by Bullock's celebrated Egyptian Hall, London Museum - opened on the south side of Piccadilly in l8l2 (Altick, 1973, 235-252; Pevsner & Lang. 1956). In its early days, the entrance to Bullock's displays was through a replica of the columnar basalt caves of Staffa (Shephard, I960), and it was here that the Chevalier de Barde's superb trompe I'oeuil paintings were displayed in I814 (Hancock, I98O), One of these paintings depicts a fictitious cabinet of minerals, a conversation piece assembled from several British collections, and many of these specimens are now in the British Museum...
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