Robert Plot was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Portrait of Robert Plot, D.D. from between 1760 and 1809
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. It is also the world's second university museum, after the establishment of the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1661 by the University of Basel.
Front façade of the museum
Wood-engraving of the Ashmolean c. 1845
The museum's renovated central atrium in 2009
Rive des Esclavons, by J. M. W. Turner, c. 1840