This image depicts the interior of Thomas Gwennap’s “Oplotheca” (derived from the Greek term hoplothêkê, meaning armory) at no. 20, Lower Brook St., London, as it was arranged in 1816. On the left side of the image, along the wall, stand three full suits of armor, flanked by two armored equestrians.

Joseph Gandy’s watercolor depicts what would become the “Dome Area” of John Soane’s house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. The image illustrates how Soane, a prominent architect and collector, conceived of the space while it was still in the planning stages: the watercolor was produced in 1811, a year before the Dome Area’s construction.

This hand-colored engraving, produced by Rudolph Ackermann in 1810, depicts the second floor of William Bullock’s Museum at 22 Piccadilly, London.

This engraving depicts Richard Du Bourg’s collection of cork models, which at the time of this image’s creation (1808-9) was housed at 68 Grosvenor Street, London.