Thomas Bruce seventh Earl of Elgin

Standard Name: Elgin, Thomas Bruce,,, seventh Earl of

Used Form: Lord Elgin

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Helen Maria Williams	On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...
Publishing	Felicia Hemans	She wrote under the impression that the topic of the Elgin Marbles (ancient Greek carvings and statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens to England by Lord Elgin , and first exhibited in London in...

Timeline

1806

The Elgin Marbles, ancient Greek statues removed from the Parthenon in Athens by Lord Elgin , were exhibited for the first time in England.

Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.

131-2

15 February 1816

Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons : he wanted to compel the British Museum to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

282-6

Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.

132

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