The Collector's Voice

by Pearce, Susan M.; Flanders, Rosemary; Hall, Mark; Morton, Fiona; Bounia, Alexandra; Martin, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781859284193
• ISBN10: 1859284191
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Scolar Pr

Summary

The Collector's Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels.Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra BouniaVolume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth ArnoldVolume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary FlandersVolume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin

Table of Contents

General preface to series	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xii
Susan Pearce
Rosemary Flanders
Mark Hall
Fiona Morton
I National voices
The Great Exhibition of 1851, London, is created	3	(5)
The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 is organised	8	(6)
The South Kensington Museum is established	14	(5)
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks is appointed to the British Museum	19	(4)
The National Portrait Gallery, London, comes into being in 1856	23	(4)
The India Museum experiences mixed fortunes	27	(4)
The Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is formed	31	(4)
Museums in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, are established, 1857--61	35	(7)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes into being	42	(6)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is established	48	(4)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is created	52	(7)
II Institutional declarations
Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers describes classification and typology	59	(6)
The Musee d'Ethnographie, Paris, makes its first collections, 1877--78	65	(5)
The British Museum debates its collecting and exhibitions policy, 1885	70	(5)
The public are encouraged to participate in collecting natural history specimens	75	(3)
The press pleads for public support for expanding the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 1895	78	(4)
Collecting for natural history exhibitions in late nineteenth-century Melbourne enjoys popular support	82	(4)
Children are inspired to collect	86	(3)
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, gathers its first collections	89	(4)
Lord Leverhulme describes the benefits of public art collections, 1915	93	(6)
III Voices from the beyond
Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovers the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings	99	(7)
Amelia Edwards becomes a female scholar and populariser	106	(6)
Marianne Brocklehurst sails up the Nile	112	(5)
Austen Henry Layard excavates Nineveh and Babylon	117	(9)
Sir John Savile Lumley investigates the temple of Artemis at Nemi, Italy	126	(3)
Officers of the Royal Navy encounter the Inuit	129	(11)
Charles Roach Smith becomes the London archaeologist	140	(5)
Hugh Alderson Fawcett achieves a remarkable collection	145	(6)
The Harpur Crewe Family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire	151	(6)
Charles Paget Wade creates Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire	157	(4)
The phrenologists collect heads	161	(7)
Punch reflects society back at itself	168	(9)
IV Literary voices
Bleak House	177	(6)
Charles Dickens
The Moonstone	183	(6)
Wilkie Collins
`The Adventure of the Illustrious Client'	189	(8)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jewel of Seven Stars	197	(7)
Bram Stoker
She	204	(10)
H. Rider Haggard
The Time Machine	214	(7)
H. G. Wells
`The Death of Simon Fuge'	221	(8)
Arnold Bennett
`The Doom of the Darnaways'	229	(16)
G. K. Chesterton
`The Mezzotint'	245	(7)
M. R. James
John MacNab	252	(6)
John Buchan
`The Thin Man'	258	(4)
Dashiell Hammett
The Golden Salamander	262	(7)
Victor Canning
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	269	(14)
Angus Wilson
V Dark voices
The relics of murder most foul: the Red Barn	283	(9)
Museums of the macabre	292	(7)
A mortal obsession: the collecting of Egyptian mummies	299	(8)
Faking it: fakes and forgeries	307	(11)
Waterloo: the great victory	318	(9)
A soldier's life: regimental collections	327	(4)
Collecting the First World War	331	(8)
Collecting militaria	339	(5)
Art collections manipulated by the state	344	(3)
Hitler's dream of art: the culture-centre at Linz	347	(3)
Germany in 1945: concealed treasure	350	(4)
Memorial: the Holocaust Museum	354	(5)
Bibliography	359	(6)
Index	365