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.
{"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
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.
{"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}
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.
{"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}
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.
1938年，在第二次世界大战即将爆发之际，尼日利亚伊尔萨姆-伊夫莱姆Wúnmọníjẹ´Compound的铜和铜合金头像被发现后，震惊了艺术界，人们写了很多关于这些壮观的自然主义铜头像的文章。然而，学术界很少注意到这些文物发现后的争议性后果，当时许多外国当事人试图从尼日利亚收集和出口其中许多文物，而禁止出口文物的立法却缺乏。本文借鉴了美国和英国的档案资料，揭示了殖民后期收集几具头颅的重要细节。与此同时，人们再次呼吁从外国机构归还尼日利亚文化遗产，这也揭示了大英博物馆获得了一个这样的头像，美国人类学家威廉·r·巴斯科姆(William R. Bascom)获得了两个头像，以及一家德国出口公司据称出口了几个至今仍下落不明的头像。
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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
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James Donaldson, Brit Asmussen, Janette McWilliam, David Parkhill
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.
{"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}
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
20世纪早期欧洲的古代艺术及其商业:约翰·马歇尔档案。由约翰·马歇尔档案项目的参与者写的论文集合获得访问Guido Petruccioli(编)，古代艺术及其商业在二十世纪早期的欧洲:约翰·马歇尔档案。约翰·马歇尔档案项目的参与者所写的论文集。牛津，古出版社，2022年。Isbn978-1-80327-256-6(精装本)，978-1-80327-257-3(电子书)。468页，17页。， 1998 b. & w.伊勒斯。精装本59英镑，电子书16英镑。Lynn Catterson Lynn Catterson USA LC60@columbia.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-4768搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者文集杂志，fhad041, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad041出版日期:2023年10月10日
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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
Journal Article从医生到罗斯柴尔德:赞助人,收藏家,费尔南多·Mazzocca慈善家得到access and Sebastian Schü层面(eds),从医生到罗斯柴尔德:赞助人、收藏家、慈善家。米兰，意大利/斯基拉出版社，2022年。isbn978-572-88-4849-3。376页，272页。€39。J罗孚öZutter Jörg Zutter Switzerland jorg zutter@bluewin。ch Search for其他works”作者:牛津学术Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, fhad039 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhad039 Published: 2023年9月29日
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