Vaguely relatedly, the "Cast Court" in the Victoria & Albert museum in London is full of 19th-century models of various famous bits of architecture and sculptur

Vaguely relatedly, the "Cast Court" in the Victoria & Albert museum in London is full of 19th-century models of various famous bits of architecture and sculpture, mostly done by plaster cast: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/cast-collection https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/cast-collection It's a really fun visit as a progenitor of modern enthusiasm for reproductions of famous objects and monuments.