Download our app and ask your own questions during your visit. Here are some that others have asked.

What is the significance of the busts on the wall?

I believe those are Portrait Busts of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron.

Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright,poet, and historian while Byron, English nobleman and poet, was considered the leading figure in the Romantic movement.

Awesome.

Both fitting figures to be displayed in this library!!

Portrait Bust of Sir Walter Scott

Decorative Arts and Design

On View: Decorative Art, 19th Century, 4th Floor

SCULPTOR Sir Francis Chantry, 1781–1841

MEDIUM Plaster

DATES 1953

DIMENSIONS 21 in. (53.3 cm)

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts and Design

ACCESSION NUMBER 53.129.1

CREDIT LINE Dick S. Ramsay Fund

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Decorative Art, 19th Century, 4th Floor

RECORD COMPLETENESS

Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.