{"title":"Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science","authors":"Sachiko Kusukawa","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad011","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science Get access Bert van de Roemer, Florence Pieters, Hans Mulder, Kay Etheridge and Marieke van Delft (eds.), Maria Sybilla Merian: Changing the nature of art and science, Tielt, Lannoo Publishers, 2022. isbn 978-94-014-8533-3. 304 pp., 140 col. illus., 30 b. & w. illus. €39.99. Sachiko Kusukawa Sachiko Kusukawa UK sk11@cam.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, fhad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad011 Published: 08 April 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135647904","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 the nation in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1832–91","authors":"Juliette E. Holder","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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 of Scottish materials from the period after ad 1100. Its purpose is, first, to ascertain the extent to which the society developed targeted collecting strategies and, second, to demonstrate the ways in which the museum’s collecting practices were influenced by the society’s priorities and broader antiquarian ideas on the value of material sources in the study of history. It is argued that by 1891 the museum’s collecting strategies had shifted from a unionist-nationalist framework towards an international comparative approach which elevated the ‘Scottishness’ of the museum’s collection by representing Scotland as a distinct nation of Europe with its own recognizable material history.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49134201","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 elevation of Henry Willett","authors":"David E. Adelman","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Henry Willett (1823–1905) was a wealthy Brighton brewer who, funded by a large inheritance, became a nationally renowned collector and one of the founders of Brighton Museum. This article focuses on Willett as a ‘collector of collections’ and investigates the eclecticism of the artefacts that he accumulated in a wide range of areas: archaeology, books, curiosities, ethnography, fine art, fossils, furniture, minerals, natural history, ‘objects of vertue’ and pottery. It argues that collecting (and exhibiting) objects, for Willett, was partly a strategy for collecting people, a means of elevating himself into cultural and intellectual circles in both Brighton and London. It also speculates on the idea that Willett’s serial collecting reflected a desire to create his own private museum referencing the totality of human knowledge – an ‘imaginary museum’ whose specimens remained hidden away in premises in Brighton and Hove, only occasionally seeing the light of day.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46500673","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":"From Stosch through Carafa to Hamilton and the British Museum: Provenance and study of some Egyptian scarabs and Near Eastern cylinder seals in the eighteenth century","authors":"Paweł Gołyźniak","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhac053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac053","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article discusses several rare Egyptian scarabs and Near Eastern cylinder seals, together with their visual documentation in the form of drawings made for Philipp von Stosch (1691–1757) in the 1720s and 1730s. These records have proved important in research on the provenance of the original objects, which entered the British Museum in 1772 from the cabinet of incised gems belonging to Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803). They also demonstrate that, in his collecting and studies of glyptic art, Stosch not only focused on Graeco-Roman gems but tried to cover all aspects of glyptics, despite the limited availability of some varieties. The drawings deliver proof of the claim that he regarded Egyptian scarabs and Near Eastern cylinder seals as the most ancient glyptic products and began work on the chronological systematization of engraved gems well before Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) presented his vision of the development of ancient art.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134983443","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 Torlonia Marbles: Collecting masterpieces","authors":"Elena Vaiani","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad006","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting masterpieces Get access Salvatore Settis and Carlo Gasparri (eds.), The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting masterpieces. Milan, Electa, 2020. isbn978-88-918-9012-2. 336 pp., 287 col. illus., 31 b. & w illus. €39. Elena Vaiani Elena Vaiani Italy elena.vaiani@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 35, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 405–406, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad006 Published: 27 February 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"468 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135947189","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":"Great Irish Households: Inventories from the long eighteenth century","authors":"C. Ridgway","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45801583","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 picture collection of the Lords Kinnaird at Rossie Priory","authors":"Brendan Cassidy","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhac059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paintings acquired by the 7th and 8th Barons Kinnaird in the period c.1795–1828 included some of the finest Old Masters on the market, including works by Titian, Rembrandt and Rubens, and works from the Orléans collection. Mounting debts, however, meant that several were soon sold. Those that remained would eventually be displayed (from c.1825) in the newly built family home, Rossie Priory in Perthshire. There they attracted the attention of Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Wilhelm von Bode, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and Bernard Berenson. The collection, however, was larger than the reports of these scholars suggested and contained important works they failed to mention. Two sources of information presented here provide fuller knowledge of the pictures in the Priory: a group of early photographs made in the 1850s and 1860s (accessible at https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/collection/the-rossie-priory-glass-plate-negative-collection/503453) and an inventory of the contents of the house made in 1878 and reproduced in annotated form in an online Appendix to this article. Between them they document the collection before its dispersal, principally at a London sale in 1946.","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136147059","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 Empress Eugénie in England: Art, architecture, collecting","authors":"Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44606891","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":"Martin Folkes (1690–1754): Newtonian, antiquary, connoisseur","authors":"Michael Hunter","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhac056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac056","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Martin Folkes (1690–1754): Newtonian, antiquary, connoisseur Get access Anna Marie Roos, Martin Folkes (1690–1754): Newtonian, antiquary, connoisseur. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021. isbn978-0-19-883006-1. xvii + 410 pp., 17 col. illus., 57 b. & w. illus. £75. Michael Hunter Michael Hunter UK m.hunter@mail.bbk.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 35, Issue 2, July 2023, Pages 402–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac056 Published: 18 January 2023","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135435636","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":"Correction to: Lucanian heritage across the world: the Spanish collections","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/jhc/fhad001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44098,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Collections","volume":"7 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41268264","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}