Special Issue: The Making of the South Kensington Museum
Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 14, Issue 1
ISBN: 019-851614-2, paperback
£13.99 / $21.00 (single issue price)
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Edited by Charlotte Gere and Carolyn Sargentson, Victoria and Albert Museum
THE MAKING OF THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM
This special issue of the Journal of the History of Collections celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, with a number of essays by the late Clive Wainwright, documenting many aspects of the early history of collecting at the South Kensington Museum. The issue also includes accounts of early collecting practice and of the interrelations of the curators with contemporary collectors and dealers.
CONTENTS
By Clive Wainwright
- The Making of the South Kensington Museum: I, The Government Schools of Design and the Founding Collection, 1837-1851
- The Making of the South Kensington Museum: II, Collecting Modern Manufactures; 1851 and the Great Exhibition
- The Making of the South Kensington Museum: III, Collecting Abroad
- The Making of the South Kensington Museum: IV, Relationships with the Trade: Webb and Bardini
- 'A Gatherer and Disposer of Other Men's Stuffe' Murray Marks, Connoisseur and Curiosity Dealer
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- A Victorian Artist-collector and the Museums: the Letters of Henry Wallis: Part I by Tim Wilson
- John Coleman Isaac, 'Importer of Curiosities': an Outline of his Life and the 1846 Continental Diary by Martin Levy and Elaine Moss
- Responsible Outsider: Charles Fairfax Murray and the South Kensington Museum by Paul Tucker
- The Uses of the South Kensington Art Collections by Anthony Burton
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