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THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN MUSEUM

Written by Jonah Siegel
Published by Oxford University Press in 2008
ISBN: 9780195331134

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.

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Cover of THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN MUSEUM by Jonah Siegel

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