Körmöczi Katalin szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum 3 - From the End of the Turkish Wars to the Millennium - The history of Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries (Budapest, 2001)

ROOM 11. Reform in Hungary in the First Half of the 19th Century "We Must Extricate Ourselves from the Morass of Decaying Feudalism" (István Széchenyi) (Katalin Körmöczi)

28. The laying of the foundation stone of the Chain Bridge, 1842 Painting by Miklós Barabás, 1864 (detail) leonic Wars. The drawing-room suite, which follows the Classicist forms of English furniture art, was made by a Hungarian master in Hungarian Empire style. By way of Ida Csapó, wife of Governor Pál Kis, it reached Fiume's gubernatorial palace, the scene of the meeting between Count István Széchenyi and Lajos Kossuth in 1845. It was later inherited by Vilmos Csapó (1798-1879), a Hungarian army colonel in 1848 and the victor of Ozora. A notable fitting is the Empire tiled stove, which stood in Lajos Kossuth's house at Tinnye in the first half of the 19th century. COUNT ISTVÁN SZÉCHENYI AND PEST-BUDA DURING THE REFORM AGE At the heart of the exhibition presenting the Reform Age is a painting which depicts the laying of the foundation stone of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, the first permanent bridge to link Pest and Buda. The bridge symbolized Széchenyi and the ideas of the Reform Age, and also embodied the need for modernization, a national economy, a national market, and a national capital. The payment of a toll, stipulated in Law XXVI of 1836 which announced that the bridge was to be built, was the