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Journal of the History of Collections
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.161

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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 0954-6650 - ISSN (Online) 1477-8564
Published by Oxford University Press

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  Pages: 207 - 208
  Abstract: Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff, Afterlives. Recovering the lost stories of looted art. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022. isbn 978-0-300-25070-1. 280 pp., 190 col. illus. $50.
  PubDate: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhad002
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2023)
Apelles’ Aphrodite Anadyomene: the itinerary of a sacred gift
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  Pages: 1 - 12
  Abstract: Recent scholarly efforts to identify the antecedents of modern concepts, practices and institutions of cultural heritage in Greco-Roman antiquity appropriately meet the research need to place ancient collecting in dialogue with the current discourse of museum and heritage studies. Our knowledge of Greek and Roman ways of dealing with the artefacts kept in sacred spaces, however, invites us to be cautious when approaching ancient sanctuaries as predecessors of modern institutions such as public art galleries and museums. Through the specific case of the ‘Aphrodite Anadyomene’ painted by Apelles, this paper proposes some reflections on several aspects of collecting in ancient sacred spaces that remain controversial: the impact of celebrated masterpieces of art on Greek and Roman sanctuaries; ancient art tourism; Greco-Roman views on cultural property and its displacement; and ancient attitudes to conservation.
  PubDate: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac001
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Jewellery and precious objects in the formation of Habsburg family
relationships: Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547) and her
inventories
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  Pages: 23 - 38
  Abstract: Queen Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503–1547), wife of Ferdinand I of Austria, assembled a remarkable collection of jewellery and valuables. Analysis of her collection is aided by the survival of four inventories, as well as household accounts, which not only reveal its origins, development and structure during the queen’s lifetime, but also its fate after her death. The complex distribution of the artefacts involved Anne’s children and other Habsburg family members, as well as other European female rulers and noblewomen. Some of the jewels have been identified in portraits of Queen Anne and her daughters. The present study seeks to shed light on the role of jewellery in establishing personal bonds within the Habsburg family and within the cultural and political networks that linked European elites during the Renaissance.
  PubDate: Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac016
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Rock value: Scientific and economic conditions for collecting minerals in
the early nineteenth century
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  Pages: 77 - 90
  Abstract: The physician Carl Wilhelm Nose (1753–1835) invested a substantial amount of time and money in exploring the rocks of the Siebengebirge, a mountain range in western Germany from the 1780s onwards. Although virtually unknown today, during his lifetime Nose earned a reputation as a leading mineralogical expert in German-speaking countries. He used his private rock collections as the basis for his research, and hoped that his findings would support his position in one of the fundamental scientific debates of the time – the neptunism–volcanism controversy, which concerns the question of the origin of the earth. At the same time, Nose sought to gain recognition for his rock-collecting work. He gave free samples to institutions and individuals, and donated specimens to various institutions. In 1814 he gifted his private collection of rocks to the Royal Mineral Cabinet in Berlin, a precursor of today’s Museum für Naturkunde there. Nose’s rocks provide deep insights into the mineral-collecting and donation practices of the early nineteenth century, the era in which modern scientific museums emerged. In addition, their collection history shows how the transformation of natural objects into museum objects was linked to the scientific, monetary and economic values attached to them. This paper argues that these natural objects embody epistemic and economic values combined.
  PubDate: Wed, 18 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac019
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
‘The illustration of all art expressed in objects of utility’: The
formation of the Renaissance collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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  Pages: 111 - 124
  Abstract: This article examines the formation of the collections of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European works of art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. For brevity’s sake, all are characterized here as ‘Renaissance’ objects, rather than by their century of production. During the first quarter-century of the museum’s activity, Renaissance art was a powerful conditioning influence on British culture and society. This encouraged the growth of the Renaissance collections between 1852 and 1875 at a rapid rate that has never since been equalled. The museum’s regularly published inventories of acquisitions include the prices paid for objects; since the purchasing power of the pound sterling altered little between 1854 and 1914, this permits an assessment of the relative value of acquisitions over this formative period. The paper closes with a résumé of the continued development of the collections since the First World War.
  PubDate: Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac021
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Giorgio de Chirico’s artful deception: The story of Nathan Cummings’s
‘true-fakes’ scandal
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  Pages: 125 - 140
  Abstract: In 1953 Nathan Cummings purchased six paintings from Giorgio de Chirico. Accompanying these works was a letter from the artist indicating the dates and titles of the paintings. Cummings nevertheless came to question the authenticity of the dates of these works. While it may seem odd for an artist to be challenged on the dating of his own work, in de Chirico’s case the doubts raised by Cummings were not without precedent. From the 1920s, de Chirico, frustrated with the art market’s rejection of his later work, created copies or ‘verifalsi’, which played off the compositions and themes of his earlier style and bore dates from his Metaphysical period in the 1910s. There is little doubt that de Chirico backdated the paintings sold to Cummings. The correspondence between the artist, Cummings and James Thrall Soby, the leading authority on de Chirico’s works, reveals much about de Chirico’s reasoning and the treatment his later output received in the art market.
  PubDate: Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac017
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
A museum on the front line: The People’s Museum of Girona
(1936–1938)
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  Pages: 141 - 154
  Abstract: On 14 August 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Sir Frederic Kenyon, director of the British Museum, and James Mann, keeper of the Wallace Collection in London, visited the Catalan city of Girona, close to the border with France. They had been sent to Spain by the British government to ascertain at first hand the impact of the war on Spain’s artistic heritage, and to assess the efforts being made by the Republican government to protect it. During their visit, they devoted particular attention to the People’s Museum, on which the Catalan authorities had been working since the outbreak of the civil war, and which they planned to open in October of that year. At the time of the visit, the war had already been raging for a year.
  PubDate: Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac012
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
T. J. Alldridge’s Sierra Leone collections
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  Pages: 155 - 166
  Abstract: Through his books, The Sherbro and its Hinterland (1901) and Sierra Leone: A transformed colony (1911), and his collections of ethnographic material from southern Sierra Leone, Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1847–1916) has probably had a greater influence in shaping the wider world’s perception of Sierra Leone’s traditional culture than any other single individual. The present article traces the history of his collections, showing that they were more extensive than is generally recognized, and documenting their dispersal to public institutions and private collectors in Europe and America. Among the questions it raises is how far the objects in Alldridge’s collections are an authentic representation of the ways of life of the peoples of southern Sierra Leone on the eve of colonization.
  PubDate: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac009
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Captain Cook, Mrs Taylor and a Mi’kmaw quillwork box: An uncorroborated
inscription, an unwarranted assertion and an imagined collection
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  Pages: 167 - 178
  Abstract: In 1963 a small box bearing an inscription stating that it had been ‘brought from Otaheite by Captn. Cook and presented by him to Mrs. Taylor Circus Bath’ was donated to the National Maritime Museum in London. That the box is actually an example of Mi’kmaw work from Nova Scotia has led previous scholars to claim that the famous navigator James Cook (1728–1779) made a collection of artefacts while he was on Royal Navy duty in Atlantic Canada in the years 1758 to 1767. An exploration of the evidence leads to two conclusions: that there is nothing to corroborate the inscription’s claim that Cook presented the box to Mrs Taylor; and that the related assertion that Cook made a collection in Atlantic Canada should be set aside.
  PubDate: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac007
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Doris Duke and Mary Crane: Collecting Islamic art for Shangri La, a
Hawaiian hideaway home
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  Pages: 179 - 192
  Abstract: Doris Duke, one of the most avid twentieth-century collectors of Islamic art, spoke little about her motivation for building a remarkable collection of Islamic art for her Hawaiian home, Shangri La, and the processes whereby she did so. However, the correspondence between her and Mary Crane, a young art-history graduate student, who had travelled in the Middle East with Duke and then was her buyer in New York in 1940–41, illuminates these questions. The letters present exciting evidence, especially about the acquisition of a stunning thirteenth-century mihrab from Kashan, Iran. Moreover, mapping of the sites that Mary Crane visited in pursuit of objects reveals the network of the numerous people involved in the Islamic art market in New York. And, finally, the letters make possible an analysis of Duke’s individual manifestation of Orientalism, enabling an examination of how and why she collected works from Middle Eastern, North African and Indian cultures.
  PubDate: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhab055
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States, 1500–1930.
Variety and ambiguity. Studies in the History of Collecting and Art
Markets 10
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  Pages: 193 - 195
  Abstract: BakerMalcolm and ReistInge (eds.), Sculpture Collections in Europe and the United States, 1500–1930. Variety and ambiguity. Studies in the History of Collecting and Art Markets 10. Leiden, Brill, 2021. isbn 978-90-04-45846-8. xviii + 340 pp., 67 col. illus. €62.
  PubDate: Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac026
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Playful Pictures: Art, leisure, and entertainment in the Venetian
Renaissance home
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  Pages: 196 - 197
  Abstract: HenryChriscinda, Playful Pictures: Art, leisure, and entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance home. University Park, pa, Penn State University Press, 2021. isbn978-0-271-08911-9. 280 pp., 41 b. & w. illus., 39 col. illus. $104.95.
  PubDate: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac033
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian
palace
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  Pages: 197 - 198
  Abstract: SchmitterMonika, The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy: Andrea Odoni and his Venetian palace. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. isbn 978-1-10884-408-6. 340 pp., 104 col. illus., 38 b. & w. illus. £75.
  PubDate: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac027
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Blinded by Curiosity: The collector–dealer Hadriaan Beverland
(1650–1716) and his radical approach to the printed image
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  Pages: 198 - 199
  Abstract: ZelenJoyce, Blinded by Curiosity: The collector–dealer Hadriaan Beverland (1650–1716) and his radical approach to the printed image. Leiden, Primavera Pers, 2022. isbn978-90-5997-330-5. 272 pp., 122 col. illus., 46 b. & w. illus. €34.50.
  PubDate: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac039
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Country House Collections: Their lives and afterlives
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  Pages: 200 - 201
  Abstract: DooleyTerence and RidgwayChristopher (eds.), Country House Collections: Their lives and afterlives. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2020. isbn978-1-84682-975-8. 334 pp., 106 col. illus. €50.
  PubDate: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac037
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters
and British Museum collections
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  Pages: 201 - 202
  Abstract: SimpsonDaniel, The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855: Maritime encounters and British Museum collections. Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. isbn978-3-030-60096-9 (e-book: isbn978-3-030-60097-6). 328 pp., 10 col. illus., 3 b. & w. illus., 1 table. £79.99 (e-book: £63.99).
  PubDate: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac051
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin
Gemäldegalerie
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  Pages: 202 - 203
  Abstract: SkwirbliesRobert (ed.), The Solly Collection, 1821–2021: Founding the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2021. isbn978-3-422-98664-0. 136 pp., 65 col. illus., 9 b. & w. illus. £32.50.
  PubDate: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac025
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Mobile Museums
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  Pages: 203 - 205
  Abstract: DriverFelix, NesbittMark and CornishCaroline (eds.), Mobile Museums. London, UCL Press, 2021. isbn978-1-787355-149. 372 pp., 76 col. illus. £30, or as a free download from https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/141630#
  PubDate: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac024
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony: W. A. Ismay and his collection of British
studio pottery
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  Pages: 205 - 206
  Abstract: WalshHelen, The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony: W. A. Ismay and his collection of British studio pottery. London, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2022. isbn978-1-913645-15-1. 168 pp., 130 col. illus. £25.
  PubDate: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac035
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)
Correction to: ‘I shall now go on selling as I can to these people’:
Joseph Duveen and the making of the Stern–Michelham collection
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  Pages: 209 - 209
  Abstract: In the originally published version of this manuscript, the following funding acknowledgement was inadvertently omitted:
  PubDate: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhac013
  Issue No: Vol. 35, No. 1 (2022)