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Two albums of drawings by Lombard masters of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, from the estate of the Clary-Aldringen family Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Eliška Zlatohlávková, Martin Zlatohlávek
Two albums of drawings by Lombard masters of the Renaissance period (sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries), the contents of which are now in museums in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, constitute one of the most valuable collections of drawings preserved in Bohemia from the seventeenth century. Apparently originally the property of Antonio Maria Viani (1555/60–1630), it remains impossible to identify
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An unknown collector of Late Antique textiles from Egypt Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Anna Głowa
The purpose of this paper is to present an outline sketch of Carl Kallenberg, a little-known nineteenth-century collector of antiquities, and the circumstances of his purchase of Late Antique textiles from Egypt, and to summarize the further history of this ensemble. Calling on an essay published in 1890 by Kallenberg in Der Sammler and on an unpublished notebook of the antiquary and collector Robert
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Doubts and certainties about the Duke of Urbino’s diplomatic gifts to Prince Philip of Spain in 1593 Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Àngel Campos-Perales
In 1593 Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, sent a number of diplomatic gifts to Philip II of Spain, intended for the crown prince, the future Philip III. The gifts included a silver model of a citadel accompanied by a set of compasses, the whereabouts of which are currently unknown; a small gilt-bronze sculptural group which has been identified with Giovanni Bandini’s The Hunt, today
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Between science and art: Irene Manton’s collection of antiquities Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Anna Reeve
Professor Irene Manton (1904–1988) was in the vanguard of technical advances in botany through the use of electron microscopy. As well as new techniques and discoveries communicated through a considerable body of scientific publications, she left behind a collection of antiquities spanning a broad range of cultures and dates. Through these objects, Manton investigated intellectual problems in the history
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Garden catalogues as sources for studying the collection and transmission of plants: Madeiran plants in the Ajuda botanical garden as a case-study Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Sandra Mesquita, Jorge Capelo, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Dalila Espírito-Santo
This paper considers the use of plant lists and related documents in addressing questions about the collection and circulation of plants and plant knowledge. The focus is on plants cultivated in Lisbon’s Ajuda botanical garden up to the mid-nineteenth century, and additionally on plants from the island of Madeira. Three plant catalogues, prepared between the early 1770s and mid-1840s, are analysed
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Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-10-13 James Donaldson, Brit Asmussen, Janette McWilliam, David Parkhill
During the First World War (1914–1918), many service personnel collected souvenirs from the countries in which they served, but the collection of antiquities by service personnel remains a neglected area of research. Between 2019 and 2021, the R. D. Milns Antiquities Museum at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Museum collaborated in a research partnership to learn more about the antiquities
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Creating the Bowes Museum Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Simon Spier
This article examines the role of French antique dealers and the auction sales that took place at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s in forming the sizeable collection of fine and decorative art of John and Joséphine Bowes, founders of the Bowes Museum in County Durham. Using primary sources published here for the first time, and presenting an extensive online Appendix of auction sales
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Reading between the lines: The Alba collection after the end of entailment (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Whitney Dennis
The end of entailed estates, or ‘mayorazgos’, in Spain brought about an unprecedented movement of art objects, although paradoxically the dispersal of art collections also gave rise to a renewed valuation of their restoration as a way to symbolize the restoration of the ‘mayorazgo’. The legislation that ended the status of the ‘mayorazgo’ also gave rise to the proliferation of documentation on collections
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The art collections and museum of King William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849) Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Ellinoor Bergvelt
King William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849) created important art collections with the benefit of advice from leading dealers at home and abroad, for which special premises were built in one of the royal palaces in The Hague. Whenever the monarch was not in residence, these were made accessible to visitors. Following William’s sudden death in 1849 almost everything was sold and the paintings are
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Collecting Raphael in reproduction in the nineteenth century Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Carly Collier
Between 1853 and 1876, an unparalleled corpus of prints and photographs after the works of Raphael was assembled at the instigation of Prince Albert. Such an ambitious endeavour necessitated scrupulous bibliographic research, the assistance of art historians and artists, and international collaboration on a novel scale, as well as the harnessing of nascent photographic technologies. The Raphael Collection
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Family portraits from the lost Gaddi gallery: The Pittori dello Studiolo in the Florentine collection of Niccolò Gaddi Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Mariaelena Floriani
This article presents ‘prolegomena’ to a deeper study of picture collecting and portraiture in Florence through the lens of Niccolò Gaddi’s commissions between 1560 and 1591. Originating in the lost gallery in Casa dell’Orto, fifteen portraits are isolated here, for the first time, as having formed the nucleus of the collection that belonged to Niccolò. Partly comprising hitherto unpublished paintings
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Collecting the nation in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1832–91 Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Julie Holder
The sixty-year period from 1832 to 1891 was key to the development of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and its museum, during which time its collection was transferred to national ownership and greater emphasis began to be placed on social and cultural history. This article analyses acquisition data to add substance to the knowledge of the meanings attached by the antiquarian society to the collection
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New light on the art collection of Andrea Menichini Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Peter Crack
Among the seventeenth-century state papers held at the National Archives at Kew is a list, dated 1670, of fifty-four works of art that were for sale at that time in Italy. The document was penned by John Dodington, an English diplomat who had recently taken up a post in Venice. Despite providing a wealth of detail on the objects for sale – several of which he ascribed to some of Europe’s most illustrious
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The rediscovered Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum in the University Library of Bologna Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Federica Gigante
This article reconstructs, by means of unpublished and newly discovered archival sources, the path of the Islamic manuscripts of the Cospi Museum from their entry into the collection of Ferdinando Cospi up to the present day, and identifies them, for the first time, in a group of manuscripts currently held in the University Library of Bologna. Although Islamic manuscripts had made their way to Italy
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Coke of Norfolk: politician, agriculturalist and art collector Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Katherine Hardwick
While much has been written about the collecting practices of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of the 5th Creation (1697–1759), less attention has been paid to those of his successor Thomas William Coke, later 1st Earl of Leicester of the 7th Creation (1754–1842). The first Thomas Coke was responsible for the construction and decoration of Holkham Hall in Norfolk. He was a passionate and enlightened
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‘His utter unfitness for a commercial collector’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Keith Alcorn
Non-European or ‘exotic’ plants became prestigious collectable items in the early nineteenth century. Although unpaid collectors contributed greatly to the discovery of new plants, systematic sponsored collecting became increasingly important after 1800 in Britain. While sharing features of natural history collecting, the organization and sponsorship of exotic plant collecting in the first half of
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Counting when, who and how Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Isobel MacDonald
This paper critically examines the possibilities of using the British Museum’s collection database as a research tool to examine acquisition history. It publishes initial findings from the author’s research into the history of the collection through a quantitative analysis of collection data. Rather than focusing on individual collectors, collections or areas of the collection, it takes a high-level
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A. W. Franks, William Ridgeway and collections of Irish antiquities Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Philip McEvansoneya
The visit by A. W. Franks of the British Museum to the Irish Industrial Exhibition in Dublin in 1853 gave him the opportunity to assess the holdings of Irish antiquarian material displayed there. This soon led to purchases for the museum. The collections that most interested him are discussed here, along with another, long known to William Ridgeway, who eventually bought it on behalf of the Cambridge
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‘The illustration of all art expressed in objects of utility’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Mark Evans
This article examines the formation of the collections of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European works of art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. For brevity’s sake, all are characterized here as ‘Renaissance’ objects, rather than by their century of production. During the first quarter-century of the museum’s activity, Renaissance art was a powerful conditioning influence on British culture and
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The House of Fragile Things: Jewish art collectors and the fall of France Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Alice S Legé
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The Art Market in Rome in the Eighteenth Century: A study in the social history of art Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-04-16 Adriano Aymonino
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T. J. Alldridge’s Sierra Leone collections Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-04-13 William Hart
Abstract Through his books, The Sherbro and its Hinterland (1901) and Sierra Leone: A transformed colony (1911), and his collections of ethnographic material from southern Sierra Leone, Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1847–1916) has probably had a greater influence in shaping the wider world’s perception of Sierra Leone’s traditional culture than any other single individual. The present article traces the
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A nineteenth-century entrepreneur and collector Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Alice S Legé
Abstract Members of the Parisian financial elite, Meyer Joseph Cahen d’Anvers (1804–1881) and his descendants belonged to an Ashkenazi community rooted in Germany and Belgium. In the late nineteenth century, as targets of the anti-Semitic press, the Cahen d’Anvers family experienced the consequences of the Dreyfus Affair and the horrors of the racial laws. In an earlier generation, the family adopted
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Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian art market in nineteenth-century France, 1853–1914 Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Silvia Davoli
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Rodolphe (1845–1905) and Maurice Kann (1839–1906) Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy
Abstract This study of two important German–Jewish collectors who settled in Paris, after 1866, Maurice (1839–1906) and Rodolphe (1845–1905) Kann, examines their place in French society. Based on unpublished archives, in particular the discovery of their wills (Archives Nationales, Paris) and their correspondence with Wilhelm von Bode (Berlin), it helps us to understand the evolution of the brothers’
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Enlightened Eclecticism: The grand design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Susan Jenkins
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Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late nineteenth-century art markets and their social networks Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Tedbury I.
CattersonLynn, Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late nineteenth-century art markets and their social networks. Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets 9. Leiden, Brill, 2020. isbn 978-90-04-41990-2. xxiv + 572 pp., 140 col. illus. €145.
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Captain Cook, Mrs Taylor and a Mi’kmaw quillwork box Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Jeremy Coote
In 1963 a small box bearing an inscription stating that it had been ‘brought from Otaheite by Captn. Cook and presented by him to Mrs. Taylor Circus Bath’ was donated to the National Maritime Museum in London. That the box is actually an example of Mi’kmaw work from Nova Scotia has led previous scholars to claim that the famous navigator James Cook (1728–1779) made a collection of artefacts while he
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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Coote J.
CampbellMungo and FlisNathan, with the assistance of Sánchez-JáureguiMaría Dolores (eds.), William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 2018. isbn 978–0–300236–651. 440 pp., 275 col. illus. $65.
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Introduction: Bildung beyond bordersGerman–Jewish collectors outside Germany, c.1870–1940 Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Hilary J, Stammers T.
Arts and Humanities Research Council10.13039/501100000267ah/S006656/1
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Arte e lettere a Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Baker-Bates P.
ZezzaAndrea, Arte e lettere a Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento.Rome, Officina Libraria, 2021. isbn 978-88-3367-065-2. 836 pp., 102 col. illus., 11 b. & w. illus. €48.
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‘I shall now go on selling as I can to these people’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Silvia Davoli
This article reassesses the collecting activities of Herbert Stern (1851–1919), 1st Baron Michelham, and his wife, Aimée (1882–1927), at the start of the twentieth century, when their lives were lived partly in France and partly in Britain. The first section provides a general overview of the Stern family and their social, cultural and philanthropic activities, which were comparable in scope and range
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The ‘beautiful enigma’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Luisa Levi D’Ancona Modena
Through an analysis of the art collection and patronage of Margherita Traube Mengarini (1856–1912), a German scientist and woman activist of Jewish origin in Rome, this article explores the dynamics of German–Jewish art collectors’ networks active in Italy from the 1880s to the early 1910s, with a particular focus on women. The collection assembled by Margherita and her husband Guglielmo Mengarini
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Apelles’ Aphrodite Anadyomene: the itinerary of a sacred gift Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Gabriella Cirucci
Recent scholarly efforts to identify the antecedents of modern concepts, practices and institutions of cultural heritage in Greco-Roman antiquity appropriately meet the research need to place ancient collecting in dialogue with the current discourse of museum and heritage studies. Our knowledge of Greek and Roman ways of dealing with the artefacts kept in sacred spaces, however, invites us to be cautious
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Felix Bamberg (1820–1893), a scholar and collector between Prussia, France, Italy and Romania Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Véronique Gerard Powell
Born in Prussia to a Jewish family, Felix Bamberg (1820–1893) is known principally as the man who sold his collection of Old Masters to King Carol I of Romania (1839–1914), now mostly in the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest. The first aim of this article is to provide a more accurate portrait of this cultured man, who moved to France in the early 1840s and whose main career as a German
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Rarities of these Lands. Art, trade, and diplomacy in the Dutch Republic Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
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Sir Ernest Cassel, a ‘Jew of taste’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Tessa Murdoch
‘Windsor’ Cassel, financial adviser to Edward VII, emigrated from Cologne to Liverpool aged 16, in 1869. Within five years he was earning a substantial salary. By 1888 he owned a residence in Mayfair, renting and then purchasing country houses and sporting estates. He owned an apartment in Paris, built a chalet in the Swiss Alps and rented villas near Biarritz. With the assistance of New York based
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What’s Mine is Yours. Private collectors and public patronage in the United States. Essays in honor of Inge Reist Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Jonathan Conlin
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Preserving Jewish heritage Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Michele Klein
The family heirlooms and Jewish ritual objects owned by Frankfurt-born Solomon David Schloss (1815–1911), an ardent Jew, who was much affected by the death of his young wife, shed light on how one man participated in the growing trend for preserving Jewish heritage in the late nineteenth century. The story of his collection, spanning a century and a half, coincides with the modern history of collecting
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Doris Duke and Mary Crane Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
Doris Duke, one of the most avid twentieth-century collectors of Islamic art, spoke little about her motivation for building a remarkable collection of Islamic art for her Hawaiian home, Shangri La, and the processes whereby she did so. However, the correspondence between her and Mary Crane, a young art-history graduate student, who had travelled in the Middle East with Duke and then was her buyer
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The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary. Art and empire in the long nineteenth century Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Debora Meijers
RampleyMatthew, ProkopovychMarkian and VeszprémiNóra, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary. Art and empire in the long nineteenth century.University Park, pa, Penn State University Press, 2021. isbn978-0-271-08710-8. 304 pp., 47 b. & w. illus. $99.95.
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Controversial collections Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Anna Tietze
This study discusses the works of art presented by Randlord Max Michaelis and his wife, Lilian, to public institutions in South Africa, particularly in Cape Town. The study notes that benefactions of this kind were unusual for the Randlords– many of whom were, like Michaelis, of German-Jewish origin – and considers the gifts in the context of South African union and the drive to provide a ‘new’ nation
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Creating ‘a palace of art’ Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-26 John Hilary
Nineteenth-century art collecting in Britain is typically characterized as a rejection of the earlier aristocratic tradition of amassing Old Masters in favour of a bourgeois preference for more relevant contemporary paintings. Inspired by the intellectual ideal of ‘Bildung’, however, German-Jewish collectors settling in fin-de-siècle London brought with them an expectation of high cultural engagement
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‘Sèvres-mania’ and collaborative collecting networks Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth
This article examines the relationship between a rising mania for ‘old’ pâte-tendre Sèvres porcelain and a growing specialization in collecting practices during the 1830s in Paris and London. Using newly discovered archival evidence, it questions the idea that individuals make collecting histories, and instead posits the notion of collaboration in creating an art collection. It examines a series of
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A Farnese acquisition Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Giulia Cocconi
This article focuses on the works of art – bronzes and paintings – listed in an inventory of 1655 detailing the collection of Carlo Luzzi, governor of Piacenza. This document has enabled the identification of a hitherto unpublished acquisition by Ranuccio II Farnese (1630–1694), and the tracing of many of Luzzi’s objects in the Farnese inventories drafted in Parma in 1680 and 1708. It also allows us
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The Wenceslaus Hollar collection of Sidney T. Fisher, and catalogue by Richard Pennington Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Simon Turner
The comprehensive collection of prints by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) donated by Sidney T. Fisher to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto ranks alongside the collections in London, Prague and Windsor. Based on the extensive unpublished correspondence between Sidney Fisher and Richard Pennington preserved in Toronto, this article describes the formation of Fisher’s Hollar
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The Matterozzi collection of Early Christian gold-glass at the British Museum Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Valerio Mezzolani, David Rini
This article recounts the story of an outstanding and yet little-known eighteenth-century character, the collector of sacred art Alessandro Matterozzi (1713–1783). He displayed in his family palace in Urbania (Marche, Italy), among paintings and antiquities, a select collection of Early Christian gold-glass, a form of decorative glass made of two layers of glass with a design in gold leaf fused between
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La Grande Galleria: spazio del sapere e rappresentazione del mondo nell’età di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Toby Osborne
VaralloFranca and VivarelliMaurizio (eds.), La Grande Galleria: spazio del sapere e rappresentazione del mondo nell’età di Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia.Rome, Carocci Editore, 2019. isbn 978-88-430-8672-6. 413 pp., 26 b. & w. illus. €46.
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Old Masters Worldwide: Markets, movements and museums, 1789–1939 Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-09-27 McEvansoneya P.
Avery-QuashSusanna and PezziniBarbara (eds.), Old Masters Worldwide: Markets, movements and museums, 1789–1939. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. isbn978-1-5013-4814-3. xviii + 300 pp., 75 b. & w. illus. £85.50.
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Framing colonial war loot Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Nicole M Hartwell
This article investigates the provenance of four artefacts associated with the military commander Kunwar Singh (1777–1858), who fought a guerrilla campaign against the British during the Indian Uprising of 1857–8. By analysing how these objects were documented and inscribed, it can be shown that, through the invocation of what is characterized here as ‘martial discourse’, British officers framed the
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Rudolf Weisker’s anatomical and developmental wax models Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Elaine Charwat
The institute for wax modelling founded in Leipzig by Rudolf Weisker (1845–1887) can be considered an important competitor to the earlier established and more successful producers of nineteenth-century developmental and anatomical wax models, Adolf and Friedrich Ziegler. This article establishes previously unknown aspects relating to Weisker, his background and sources. It examines why models from
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Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Adriana Turpin
KentIsabelle (ed.), Collecting Murillo in Britain and Ireland. Madrid, Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2020. isbn 978-84-15345-96-4. 352 pp., 136 col. illus. €38.47.
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Raphael: The Power of Renaissance Images: The Dresden tapestries and their impact Apostles in Prussia: The Raphael tapestries of the Bode-Museum The Raphael Cartoons Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Mark Evans
KojaStephan with MohrLarissa (eds.), Raphael: The Power of Renaissance Images: The Dresden tapestries and their impact. Dresden, Sandstein Verlag; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2020. isbn978-3-95498-552-4. 336 pp., 261 mostly col. illus. €48.00.
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Georg Forster: The South Seas at Wörlitz. Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Jeremy Coote
VorpahlFrank (ed.), Georg Forster: The South Seas at Wörlitz. Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz . Munich, Hirmer Verlag, 2019. isbn 978-3-7774-3314-1. 208 pp., 104 col. illus., 23 b. & w. illus. €39.95.
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Illuminating Natural History: The art and science of Mark Catesby Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Arthur MacGregor
McBurneyHenrietta, Illuminating Natural History: The art and science of Mark Catesby. London, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021. isbn978-1-913107-19-2. xii + 353 pp., 242 col. illus., 22 b. & w. illus. £40.
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Corrigendum to: Duped or duplicitous? Bode, bardini and the many Madonnas of South Kensington Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Lynn Catterson
In the originally published version of this manuscript, page 72, column 1, paragraph 2 notes a first published date of 1868, that date has been corrected to 1863. In paragraph 79, column 1, paragraph 2 notes that child grasps the Madonna’s right forearm, that has been corrected to child grasps the Madonna’s left forearm. Paragraph 82, column 1, paragraph 1, notes that the skm was obtained from Galiardi
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Books Received Journal of the History of Collections Pub Date : 2021-08-04
Ellinoor S. Bergvelt and Debora J. Meijers, Teyler’s Foundation in Haarlem and its ‘Book and Art Room’ of 1779: A key moment in the history of a learned institution. Scientific and Learned Cultures and their Institutions 29. Leiden, Brill, 2020. isbn 978-90-04-44099-9. xviii + 310 pp., 91 col. illus. €125.