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The Foundling Museum – The Architecture

William Hogarth (1697-1764), Moses before Pharaoh's Daughter

William Hogarth (1697-1764), Moses before Pharaoh's Daughter

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The original Foundling Hospital was built to provide a home for children and to create England’s first public art gallery to attract financial support. Before it was demolished in the late 1920s, the architects, J M Sheppard & Partners, took incredibly accurate measurements of all the dimensions. A lot of historic features were put into storage and reused when the current Foundling Museum building was built in 1938. The Foundling Museum’s Court Room has one of London’s finest surviving Rococo interiors and is available for private hire.

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