Studies in the History of Collections
Volume I
The Reception of Classical Art in Britain
An Oxford Story of Plaster Casts from the Antique
Table of contents
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Author's Introduction |
vii |
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Acknowledgements |
ix |
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Part I |
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1. |
Copies of classical sculpture |
1 |
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Ancient Roman copyists at Baiae |
1 |
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Squarcione's casts for artists in 15th century Padua |
2 |
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2. |
Early collections of classical sculpture in Italy |
5 |
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Italian travellers in Greek lands |
18 |
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'Antiquities Gardens' |
18 |
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Engravings of classical sculpture |
19 |
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3. |
The earliest collections of classical art in Britain |
21 |
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Henry VIII and Nonsuch Palace |
38 |
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William Camden, Robert Cotton and early academies |
39 |
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Prince Henry's cabinet |
40 |
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King Charles I and his court |
41 |
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Arundel, Rubens, and Peiresc |
41 |
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Castiglione's Il Libro del Cortegiano and Peacham's Compleat Gentleman |
43 |
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Bodley's benefaction and Oxford's 'Picture Gallery' |
45 |
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Evelyn and the Arundel Marbles |
46 |
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Tradescant, Ashmole and the Ashmolean Museum |
47 |
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4. |
Preparation for the Grand Tour |
49 |
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Early guide books |
49 |
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The Richardsons |
50 |
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5. |
Sir Roger Newdigate (1719-1806) and his era |
53 |
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The first Grand Tour 1738-1740 |
77 |
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The Tribuna of the Uffizi |
78 |
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Buying casts from Cipriani in Florence 1739 |
79 |
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Arbury Hall and the Duchess of Pomfret |
80 |
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The Pomfret Benefaction 1755 |
80 |
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6. |
Classical archaeology 1740-1774 |
85 |
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7. |
The second Grand Tour 1774-1775 |
103 |
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Buying casts from Traballese in Florence |
117 |
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Displaying casts at Arbury Hall |
117 |
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The Queen's College and Newdigate's Wild Boar |
118 |
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The Radcliffe Library and 'Piranesi's Candlesticks' |
118 |
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Newdigate's 'temple for classical art' |
120 |
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The Newdigate Prize |
121 |
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8. |
Continental cast collections before 1800 |
123 |
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British cast collections before 1800 |
127 |
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10. |
The early nineteenth century: an introduction |
133 |
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11. |
The Duncan brothers, John Shute and Philip Bury |
140 |
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The Radcliffe Library and antique busts |
149 |
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Bodleian 'Picture Gallery', Henning's casts and Fouquets' models |
150 |
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Radcliffe Library and plaster casts from the antique |
152 |
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The Duncans as patrons of classical art |
152 |
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The University Galleries 1839-1845 |
155 |
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Dr Francis Randolph and Sir Robert Taylor |
171 |
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Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) |
172 |
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Design of Taylor's Library |
173 |
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Design of the exhibition areas in the University Galleries |
173 |
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Cockerell's 'Great Niche' |
174 |
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Duncans' Muses |
174 |
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Sir Francis Chantrey |
177 |
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Lady Chantrey's benefaction |
183 |
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Chantrey as a collector of antique casts |
184 |
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Chantrey's casts from the antique |
185 |
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Museums in mid-nineteenth century Oxford |
189 |
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Burgon's Remarks on Art |
194 |
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Ruskin and the Drawing School |
195 |
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Charles Newton and his Oxford lectures |
196 |
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The Classical Museum |
199 |
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The Great Exhibition and the Cast Courts of the Crystal Palace |
201 |
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Museums in Oxford 1860-1884 |
205 |
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The University Museum |
205 |
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The Ashmolean Museum and John Henry Parker |
205 |
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Parliamentary Commission of 1877 |
206 |
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German museums and German scholarship |
207 |
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Walter Pater's lectures on Greek art |
207 |
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Cambridge 1870-1884 |
209 |
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Benjamin Jowett's Vice-Chancellorship 1882-1886 |
211 |
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Pelham and the Cast Committee |
216 |
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Casts ordered in 1884 |
217 |
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Archaeological research in Europe before 1884 |
219 |
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21. |
Archaeological research in Oxford before 1884 |
225 |
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Part II |
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1. |
Introduction |
231 |
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2. |
Establishment of the Professorship |
233 |
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Lincoln College and Mark Pattison |
233 |
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Ancient History and Archaeology |
233 |
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3. |
Percy Gardner (1887-1925) |
237 |
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The Gardner brothers |
255 |
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Percy's Inaugural Lecture |
255 |
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Casts ordered |
256 |
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The Chantrey casts |
258 |
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The 'Sunk Court' and the apparatus |
260 |
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Casts on the move |
260 |
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The Evanses |
263 |
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Arthur Evans and Fortnum |
263 |
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University Galleries and Ashmolean Museum 1894 |
264 |
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Casts ordered in 1894 |
265 |
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The 'Sunk Court' and the Chantrey casts |
268 |
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Newton's books and the Archaeological Library |
269 |
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Warren and Marshall |
271 |
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Gardner's first decade |
271 |
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Portrait busts |
272 |
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Barracco's Museo di Scultura antica |
275 |
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Gardner, Richards and Beazley |
275 |
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Amalgamation of the collections 1908 |
277 |
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Warren and Beazley |
278 |
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Hogarth's master plan |
279 |
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The Great War 1913-1918 |
280 |
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Warren, Marshall and the 'Boston Throne' |
280 |
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Gardner's Guide to the casts |
281 |
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The Hope sale |
282 |
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Post-war |
283 |
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The Coin Room |
284 |
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Gardner's Progress in Classical Archaeology |
285 |
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4. |
John Davidson Beazley (1925-1956) |
287 |
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Early years at Oxford |
291 |
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Testimonials for the Professorship |
291 |
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Beazley and the casts |
292 |
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The 1930s |
297 |
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War and destruction of Duncan and Chantrey casts |
298 |
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Beazley's A Catalogue of Casts |
299 |
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Post-War |
299 |
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Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology |
299 |
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Planning for the future |
300 |
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5. |
Bernard Ashmole (1956-1961) |
303 |
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Early years and photography |
307 |
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London years, Inaugural Lecture Value of Casts |
308 |
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'Persuaded' to Oxford |
308 |
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The new Cast Gallery |
308 |
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Cleaning the casts |
309 |
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Martin Robertson (1961-1979) |
311 |
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Early years and Beazley |
313 |
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The University's purchase and Beazley's gift |
314 |
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Departure of the Ruskin School of Drawing |
314 |
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John Boardman (1979-1994) |
317 |
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Reader for Ashmole and Robertson |
329 |
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Artists and exhibitions in the Cast Gallery |
329 |
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The Baiae casts |
330 |
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Midas and Philip |
330 |
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Electronic documentation of the casts |
331 |
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Impressions of engraved gems and cameos |
332 |
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The Wellcome Benefaction |
333 |
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Chronological chart |
341 |
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Catalogue of casts, compiled by Florence Maskell |
383 |
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List of abbreviations |
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Bibliography |
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Index (general) |
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Index of persons |
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Index of museums |
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