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Tables of Contents for The Collector's Voice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General preface to series
viii
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xii
Susan Pearce
Ken Arnold
I Curious voices
Giulio Camillo's magical proto-museum
3
3
Samuel a Quiccheberg's `classes': the first modern museological text
6
6
Gabriel Kaltermackt's advice to princes
12
5
Francis Bacon advises how to set up a museum
17
4
The German traveller Thomas Platter describes the English collection of Walter Cope
21
5
Ulisse Aldrovandi collects insects
26
3
Henry Peacham's advice to gentleman collectors
29
4
The Earl of Arundel views the King of Bohemia's collection
33
5
John Evelyn records in his diary the collections he has seen in Florence
38
4
The Collection of King Charles I of England
42
4
John Dury advocates school museums
46
4
The catalogue of the Tradescant collection: England's first substantial museum
50
7
John Bargrave gives and account of his museum collection
57
6
II Scientific voices
John Wilkins experiments with a philosophical museum language
63
4
John Winthrop reports upon some American curiosities
67
5
Robert Plot surveys the natural history of Oxfordshire
72
5
James Petiver describes how to preserve natural specimens
77
5
A show elephant becomes an anatomy exhibit
82
5
Robert Hooke muses on language and memory, in which the idea of a museum or repository plays a significant part
87
7
Nehemiah Grew writes the 1681 catalogue of the Royal Society's Repository
94
6
Elias Ashmole organises the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
100
6
Hans Sloane describes a `China Cabinet'
106
4
Zacharias Conard von Uffenback describes Hans Sloane's collection
110
4
John Woodward sets out a classification for fossils
114
7
III Enlightened voices
Michael Valentini lists contemporary collections
121
5
The collections of Carl Linnaeus and their arrival in Britain
126
3
Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander collect in the South Seas
129
10
The Duchess of Portland collects shells and antiquities
139
8
Captain Chapman sends Whitby fossils to the Royal Society collection
147
4
The Resta collection of drawings is sold
151
6
Thomas Martyn collects collectors
157
10
Alexander Pope mocks collectors and their habits
167
4
Gowin Knight's proposal for the establishment of the British Museum, and for Sloane's collection within it
171
5
Overseas and native visitors view the British Museum
176
3
Collecting as revolution
179
4
Miss Benett collects fossils in Wiltshire
183
4
Mary Anning: collectrice extraordinaire
187
8
IV Antique voices
Johann Winckelmann describes the antiquities discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii
195
5
Charles Townley and his marbles
200
7
Henry Blundell forms his collection of marbles
207
4
Sir Richard Worsley collects on a Grand Tour
211
3
Robert Wood, explorer of Palmyra, muses on ancient architecture and sculpture
214
4
Sir William Hamilton, a many-side connoisseur
218
5
Plaster shops in Britain, 1760-1820
223
5
Correspondence between Charles Tatham and Henry Holland
228
5
The Edinburgh Trustees buy classical plaster casts for their academy
233
3
Captain Francis Beaufort, Royal Navy, surveys the coastal lands of Asia Minor
236
3
Charles Robert Cockerell travels to the temple of Bassae in Arcadia
239
8
Lord Elgin acquires the Parthenon Marbles
247
10
`Ambulator' described the New Gallery at the British Museum, opened in 1810
257
6
V Strange voices
Collecting jewels from India
263
5
Exotic collectables come back from Captain Cook's voyages of discovery
268
10
George Vancouver sails up the north-west coast of America
278
2
Sir Ashton Lever collects, and then organises a lottery
280
6
William Bullock's London museum
286
11
Visitors see sensational collections at York
297
2
William Beckford collects his fantasies
299
9
Horace Walpole collects at Strawberry Hill
308
5
The Society of Antiquaries of London encourages the study of antiquity and the collecting of its remains
313
5
Sir John Soane and his house of collection at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
318
5
Sir Walter Scott describes a collector of antiquities
323
4
Newcastle collects antiquities
327
5
Bibliography
332
11
Index
343