Sir John Soane’s Museum: Fiction Site

“This labyrinth stuffed full of fragments is the most tasteless arrangement that can be seen; it has the same kind of perplexing and oppressive effect on the spectator as if the whole stock of an old-clothes-dealer had been squeezed into a doll’s house.” — Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles of Great Britain,1882
(tr C.A.M.Fennell, 2 vols, Cambridge, quoted in S.F.Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor Michigan 1987)