Stephen Thompson
1872, December
Photographs from the British Museum

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The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, December 1872, p.408.
 
During the past year the first set of a most valuable series of photographs of various objects of antiquity in the British Museum has been published by W. A. Mansell and Co., of 2, Percy Street, Rathbone Place, W. It consists of upwards of a thousand plates, each 12 inches by 10 inches, representing about five thousand examples, and is arranged as follows :
 
Part I. Prehistoric and ethnographical series. Plates 1-157.
Part II. Egyptian series. Plates 200-317.
Part III. Assyrian series. Plates 350-595.
Part IV. Grecian series. Plates 600-785.
Part V. Etruscan and Roman series. Plates 860-896.
Part VI. Antiquities of Britain and foreign mediaeval art. Plates 901-946.
Part VII. Seals of corporations, sovereigns, etc. Plates 951-1041.
 
The photographs, which have been taken by permission of the Trustees, are executed by Mr. Stephen Thompson by the advice and under the superintendence of gentlemen attached to the various departments to which the objects represented may be severally referred; and a descriptive catalogue of them has been arranged (approximately chronologically), with an introduction, by Mr. Charles Harrison. Each photograph is sold separately at two shillings, uumounted ; and the subjects are intended to "supply evidence of man's advancement from the lowest stage of his history to the latest epoch."
 
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