大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 8月20日 02時48分

To celebrate #WorldPhotographyDay, we’re sharing some photographs taken by the Museum’s first official photographer Roger Fenton. In 1857 he photographed several of the exhibition galleries‪.
For many people, Sir Robert Smirke's massive nineteenth-century façade in Greek Revival style epitomises the very idea of a museum. The façade was completed in 1847. Its forty-four Ionic columns were carved on the Museum site out of large blocks of Portland stone. The sculptures in the pediments were designed by Sir Richard Westmacott, and installed in 1851. The forecourt layout, designed by Smirke's younger brother Sydney, was completed the following year.
Roger Fenton took this photograph of the south front of the Museum early one morning in 1857. An assistant leans against one of the cast iron lamp standards, giving scale to the photograph. The south front already shows the effects of the air pollution in Victorian London.
These photographs of the Museum galleries were originally produced as stereoscopic views and were on sale to the general public. If looked at through a special viewer, these images appear three-dimensional. From the late 1850s until well into the twentieth century stereoscopic views were very popular.
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