Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom StammersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108807224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments – not just financial but also emotional and imaginative – in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library and Autographs of the Late Senator Henry B. Anthony, of Providence, Rhode Island ...
Author: Henry Bowen AnthonyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Catalogue of the Collection of Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard College by Francis Calley Gray
Author: Louis ThiesCatalogue of the Collection of Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard College by Francis Calley Gray. By Louis Thies. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: Fogg Museum of ArtCatalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Author: George Edwards
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Author: Spink & Son