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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Other Authors: Burrows, Toby (Editor), Johnston, Cynthia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Series:Routledge focus
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Summary: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
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This volume ... has its origins in a conference held in 2016 at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Physical Description:ix, 143 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9780815382348
9780367606800

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