ROMA OXONIENSIS

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The West Wing

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  West Wing of the museum in c.1850.
  Etching: Joseph Fisher

On the walls of the building's West Wing, Cockerell placed plaster casts of the Parthenon frieze.

They can just be seen in this etching of about 1850, and, more clearly, in the photograph below.

The casts shown in this etching are from Sir Francis Chantrey's 19th century marble sculptures.

• West Wing of the museum today.
  Photograph: Beazley Archive, Ian Hiley