Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : forming a supplemental volume to the Treasures of art in Great Britain
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Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : forming a supplemental volume to the Treasures of art in Great Britain
（Museums and their development, . The European tradition 1700-1900 / edited and introduced by Susan M. Pearce ; vol. 8）
Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1999
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Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, MSS., &c. : visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described
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"Reprinted from the 1857 edition"--T.p. verso
Originally published: London : John Murray, 1857
Includes index
"Routledge/Thoemmes Press is a joint imprint of Routledge Ltd and Thoemmes Press Ltd"--T.p. verso
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Description
This set gathers together books, pamphlets and articles on all forms of collecting. The volumes have been carefully chosen to illustrate the principle intellectual and political motives which have fed into collecting during its formative 'enlightenment' years from about 1650 to 1870. Each writer represented in the this set is both important in his own right, and in the influence which he had upon contemporaries and successors. They link together in a sequence which shows the successful preoccupations and fields of museums and collecting over this crucial two-hundred year period.
The volumes reprinted here encapsulate something of the history of European museums and particularly attitudes to collecting during the two hundred years which saw the birth and development of almost all the great institutions. All the authors here were significant players in the history of taste, appreciation and understanding. They have left their indelible mark on the museum scene which we see around us, and on the philosophical history of the Western world.
Table of Contents
Provisional contents: Volumes 1-4: Treasures of Art in Great Britain, being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated mss., etc., [1854-7] Gustav Waagen, Volume 5: Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, with Instructio ns for the Connoisseur and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art [1765] Johann Winckelmann, Volume 6: Travels in Southern Europe and Levant 1810-1817 [1903] Charles Robert Cockerell, Volume 7: Musaeum Tradescantianum, or a Collection of Rarities of Rarities, Preserved at South-Lambert near London [1656] John Tradescant, Volume 8: Museographia, oder Anleitung zum rechten Begriff und nutzlicher Anlegung der Museorum, oder Raritaten-Kammern [1727] Kasper Friedrich Einckel (or Jencquel)
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