Collecting the past: British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries

Today's museums and libraries are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. 'Collecting the Past' brings together the late...

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Weitere Verfasser: Burrows, Toby (HerausgeberIn), Johnston, Cynthia (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Schriftenreihe:Routledge focus
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Zusammenfassung:Today's museums and libraries are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. 'Collecting the Past' brings together the latest research on several significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including Hans Sloane, John Ruskin, Thomas Phillipps, Sydney Cockerell and Alfred and Edith Chester Beatty. 0Contributors to the volume examine the phenomenon of collecting in a variety of settings and across a range of different materials. Considering the aims and motives that led these collectors to assemble such remarkable collections, the book also examines the fate of these collections after the collectors' deaths. Particular attention is given to the often complicated relationship between collectors and the public institutions that subsequently came to house their collections
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
This volume ... has its origins in a conference held in 2016 at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Beschreibung:ix, 143 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9780815382348
9780367606800

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