The Collectors 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 Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin
General preface to series viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction xii Susan Pearce Ken Arnold I Curious voices Giulio Camillos magical proto-museum 3(3) Samuel a Quicchebergs `classes: the first modern museological text 6(6) Gabriel Kaltermackts 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 Peachams advice to gentleman collectors 29(4) The Earl of Arundel views the King of Bohemias 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: Englands 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 Societys 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 Sloanes 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 Knights proposal for the establishment of the British Museum, and for Sloanes 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 Cooks 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 Bullocks 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 Lincolns 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
Susan Pearce, Rosemary Flanders, Fiona Morton
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