THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN MUSEUM
Written by Jonah Siegel
Published by Oxford University Press
in 2008
ISBN: 9780195331134
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- MUSEUMS
THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN MUSEUM
Written by Jonah Siegel.
Stock no. 2132939
1st.
2008.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
An Anthology of Nineteeth-Century Sources. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780195331134. Some pencil annotation to front endpaper. Couple of small scuffs to wrapper.
Front cover
Contents
- CHRONOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE
- From Collection to Museum
- 1. PRIVATE COLLECTION
- (William Bullock)/A Companion to Mr Bullock's Museum (1810)
- Gustav Friedrich Waagen/Treasures of Art in Great Britain (1838/1854)
- Collecting in Britain
- Blenheim Palace
- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Panshanger, Seat of Earl Cowper
- William Hazlitt/Sketches of he Principal Picture Galleries in England (1824)
- Mr Angerstein's Collection
- 2. TOWARD A PUBLIC ART COLLECTION
- House of Commons/Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Earl of Elgin's Collection (1816)
- House of Commons/Parliamentary Debate on Purchasing the Elgin Marbles (1816)
- House of Commons/Parliamentary Debate on Building the National Gallery (April 1832)
- Anonymous/The British Museum (1836)
- Anna Jameson/the National Gallery (1842)
- 3. THE PUBLIC IN THE MUSEUM
- Anonymous/The British Museum (1832)
- House of Commons/Report of the Select Committee on Arts and their Connexion with Manufactures (1836)
- House of Commons/Report of the Select Committee on National Monuments and Works of Art (1841)
- House of Commons/Report of the Select Committee on the National Gallery (1850)
- H.M. Bateman/The Boy who Breathed on the Glass in the British Museum (1916)
- TWO
- Rationalising the National Collections
- 4. ART AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY
- House of Commons/Testimony Before the Select Committee on the National Gallery (1853)
- House of Commons/Testimony Before the National Gallery Site Commission (1857)
- Gustav Friedrich Waagen/Thoughts on the New Building to be Erected for the National Gallery of England (1953)
- 5. NATURAL HISTORY AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM
- W.I. Bicknell/The British Museum (1847)
- Elizabeth Eastlake/The British Museum (1858)
- House of Commons/The British Museum. Committee Moved for (1859)_
- Richard Owen/On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History (1862)
- (William Henry Flower)/Topographical Descriptions of the Museum and its contents, British Museum (1893)
- 6. PEDAGOGY:SOUTH KENSINGTON AND THE PROVINCES
- Henry Cole/Extracts from an Introductory address on the Functions of the Science and Art Dept (1857)
- Anonymous/The South Kensington Museum (1859)
- Anonymous/Provincial Museums (1866)
- F.R. Sandford/Report on the system of Circulation of Art objects on Loan from the South Kensington Museum (1881)
- 7. REFORM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSEUM ATTENDANCE
- John Ruskin/On the present state of Modern Art (1867)
- W. Stanley Jevons/The Use and abuse of Museums (1883)
- 8. FROM WONDERS TO SIGNS: ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY
- David Murrary/The Modern Museum (1904)
- John Henry Parker/The Ashmolean Museum (1870)
- Augustus Henry Lane Fox (Pitt-Rivers)/Catalogue of the Anthropological Collection Lent by Colonel Lane for Exhibition in the Bethnal Green Museum (1874)
- 9. EXHIBITING INDIA
- Anonymous/The India Museum, Whitehall (1861)
- J.Forbes Watson/On the Measures Required for the Efficient Working of the India Museum and Library (1874)
- Lord Curzon et al/The Future Treatment of the Indian Collection at the Old South Kensington Museum (1909)
- INDEX