{"title":"Between science and art: Irene Manton’s collection of antiquities","authors":"Anna Reeve","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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 of science and communicated her findings with a highly original and idiosyncratic approach. At first sight a disparate group of unprovenanced antiquities, through the lens of Manton’s archives this collection can be understood as a rich repository of material evidence. This critical examination of Manton’s collecting practices and the uses she made of her ancient objects provides new evidence for the variety of approaches to collecting and interpreting antiquities, spanning disciplinary boundaries, over the course of the twentieth century.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"69 5-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135455541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and collector","authors":"Henrietta McBurney","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136233730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandra Mesquita, Jorge Capelo, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Dalila Espírito-Santo
{"title":"Garden catalogues as sources for studying the collection and transmission of plants: Madeiran plants in the Ajuda botanical garden as a case-study","authors":"Sandra Mesquita, Jorge Capelo, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Dalila Espírito-Santo","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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, together with register books and documents that habitually accompanied plant shipments sent to the garden. The study shows which plants were present in the garden and how the collection evolved, as well as which world regions were represented. In comparing Madeiran plants listed as present in the garden with those documented as being shipped from the island in the late 1790s, the paucity of shared names is striking. On the one hand, this may reflect document loss, while on the other it suggests that Madeiran plants may have been transported from their native range to other European locations by means of complex exchange networks.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"24 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136233364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew Carnegie’s museum of evolution","authors":"Diana Strazdes","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Carnegie Institute was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the great age of museum building in the United States. The institute took shape over two building programmes completed in 1895 and 1907. It comprised not only a natural history museum and art gallery but also a library and a music hall. Financed solely by Andrew Carnegie, it stood as an oddity in having no founder’s collection. Carnegie’s role has been interpreted as that of a silent financial partner who turned over creative control to others. Instead, and from the start, the natural history collection and art gallery were ideologically driven to accord with their founder’s idiosyncratic values. Carnegie Institute symbolized the thinking of philosopher Herbert Spencer and educational reformer Matthew Arnold, as absorbed and interpreted by Carnegie. The collections of palaeontology, casts, reproductions, paintings and drawings were displayed to reflect both Spencer’s concept of evolution and Arnold’s concept of anti-materialism.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"54 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136318180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collecting copper alloy portrait heads: A history of the acquisition and export of the Wúnmọníjẹ̀ heads in late colonial Nigeria","authors":"Tomos Llywelyn Evans","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad042","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Much has been written about the spectacular naturalistic copper and copper alloy heads of Wúnmọníjẹ̀ Compound, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria, which stunned the art world after they were unearthed in 1938, on the cusp of the Second World War. However, little scholarly attention has been afforded to the controversial aftermath of their discovery, when multiple foreign parties endeavoured to collect and export many of them from Nigeria, while legislation to prohibit the export of antiquities was lacking. Drawing on archives from the USA and the UK, this article reveals important details of the collecting of several of the heads in the late colonial period. Coinciding with renewed calls for the restitution of Nigerian cultural patrimony from foreign institutions, it sheds light on the British Museum’s acquisition of one such head, the acquisition of two by the American anthropologist William R. Bascom, and the purported export by a German export company, of several heads which remain unaccounted for to this day.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"95 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135218799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints","authors":"Armin Kunz","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad043","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints Get access Holly Borham (ed.), The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints.Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, and Marquand Books, 2023. isbn978-1-64657-034-8. 164 pp., 125 col. illus. $39.95. Armin Kunz Armin Kunz USA armin@cgboerner.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, fhad043, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad043 Published: 24 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"50 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135266292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James Donaldson, Brit Asmussen, Janette McWilliam, David Parkhill
{"title":"Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project","authors":"James Donaldson, Brit Asmussen, Janette McWilliam, David Parkhill","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 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 collecting activities of First World War personnel from Queensland, Australia. In addition to reporting on the preliminary results of that pilot study, this paper also begins to address the question of why antiquities appealed to service personnel. Most artefacts in this study are from the private collections donated to the Queensland Museum and from three privately owned collections. Artefacts are mostly small ‘curios’ such as scarabs, figurines, coins and fragments of monuments collected in various theatres of the war.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135854015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project","authors":"Lynn Catterson","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad041","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project Get access Guido Petruccioli (ed.), Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project. Oxford, Archaeopress, 2022. isbn978-1-80327-256-6 (hardback), 978-1-80327-257-3 (e-book). 468 pp., 17 col. illus., 198 b. & w. illus. £59 (hardback), £16 (e-book). Lynn Catterson Lynn Catterson USA LC60@columbia.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-4768 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, fhad041, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad041 Published: 10 October 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136292620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi","authors":"Jörg Zutter","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad039","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi Get access Fernando Mazzocca and Sebastian Schütze (eds.), Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi. Milan, Edizioni Gallerie d’Italia / Skira, 2022. isbn978-572-88-4849-3. 376 pp., 272 col. illus. €39. Jörg Zutter Jörg Zutter Switzerland jorg.zutter@bluewin.ch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, fhad039, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad039 Published: 29 September 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135193364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial changes at the <i>Journal of the History of Collections</i>","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135719692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}