Main entry:

Herrmann, Frank.

Title & Author:

The English as collectors : a documentary sourcebook / selected, introduced, and annotated by Frank Herrmann.

Edition:

2nd, rev. and expanded ed.

Publication:

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press ; London : John Murray, 1999.

Description:

xlviii, 461 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1972. With new introd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-436) and index.
Introduction. -- Part 1. From the beginnings to 1824. -- The great trio : Charles I, Arundel and Buckingham / Gustav Waagen. -- The first collectors / Anna Jameson. -- Collecting as a fashion : Mrs Jameson surveys the eighteenth century / Anna Jameson. -- Dr Waagen again / Gustav Waagen. -- An exemplary grand tour / James Lees-Milne. -- Aedes Walpolianae / Horace Walpole. -- Horace Walpole's journal of visits to country seats (Melbury, Burghley). -- Principles of sculpture collecting / James Kennedy. -- Collectors first collected / Thomas Martyn. -- The Resta drawings for sale / John Talman. -- Reynolds reports to the Duke of Rutland / Sir Joshua Reynolds. -- Strawberry Hill / R. W. Ketton-Cremer. -- A case of family collecting : the Earls of Radnor / Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor. -- The difficulties of viewing collections / William T. Whitley. -- The Vitturi collection in English hands / William Buchanan. -- Buchanan on the Orleans collection / William Buchanan. -- The Orleans dispersal : an explanatory postscript / Frank Herrmann. -- The Flemish part of the Orleans collection / William Buchanan. -- Dr Waagen surveys the Post-Orleans era / Dr Gustav Waagen. -- Dr Waagen on the Elgin Marbles ; Lord Elgin's rescue of the sculptures from the Parthenon / Sir Henry Ellis. -- Fagan, an early importer / William T. Whitley. -- The Altieri Claudes / William T. Whitley. -- And a postscript: The Altieri Claudes / William T. Whitley. -- Irvine reports to Buchanan from Italy / William Buchanan. -- Desenfans : the amateur professional / William T. Whitley. -- Desenfans tricked by Sir Joshua Reynolds / William T. Whitley. -- William Roscoe / Hugh MacAndrew and Michael Compton. -- Roscoe late in life / J. D. Passavant. -- Waagen meets William Young Ottley / Dr Gustav Waagen. -- Ottley's life as a collector / J. A. Gere. -- Lawrence's collection spurned / George Redford. -- Buchanan himself at work / William Buchanan. -- Pictures with pedigrees... / Thomas Winstanley. -- ...and pictures without / A. C. R. Carter. -- Edward Solly / Frank Herrmann. -- The remarkable acquisition of Correggio's Education of Venus / Anna Jameson. -- The Beckford collection sold / George Redford. -- Rogers on Fonthill Abbey / Lady Bessborough. -- Holkham Hall, 1833 / J. D. Passavant. -- View before the sale / Dr Gustav Waagen. -- The British Institution / Gustav Waagen. -- An extreme view quoted by William T. Whitley. -- Advertisement : advice to proprietors. -- Part 2. 1824 and after. -- The changing taste of collectors / John Steegman. -- Prince Albert as collector / John Steegman. -- Sir John Soane / Camilla Tyler. -- Sir Robert Peel / Frank Herrmann. -- The house of Samuel Rogers / "Athenaeum". -- The collection of Samuel Rogers / Anna Jameson. -- On the hazards of showing one's collection / J. Maberley. -- The founding of the National Gallery / William T. Whitley. -- The Stowe sale / George Redford. -- A sidelight on Stowe / Lord Hertford. -- Lord Hertford and his agent / Lord Hertford. -- The taste for Objets d'Art / John Steegman. -- Official collecting : the Soulages collection purchased / Frank Davis. -- Sale of the Bernal collection / W. Roberts. -- A generous donation / W. Fox Strangways. -- The Eastlakes on tour / Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. -- The Great Manchester Exhibition and the new connoisseurship / John Steegman. -- The Northwick collection / George Redford. -- An early Turner collector / George Redford. -- Lady Charlotte Schreiber from her journals. -- A picture sale at Christies (1887) / George Redford. -- The Hamilton Palace collection / George Redford. -- On the use of photography in the study of painting / Bernard Berenson. -- The Wallace-Bagatelle collection / Germain Seligman. -- The Rothschilds of Waddeson Manor / F. J. B. Watson. -- The sport of collecting : the dream come true ; Luxor; the failure of an amateur "Scout" / Sir Martin Conway. -- The great exodus / Sir Robert C. Witt. -- Problems of connoisseurship / Max Friedländer. -- The Tatton Turners / A. C. R. Carter. -- The collection of Samuel Courtauld / Anthony Blunt. -- Collecting costume / C. Willett Cunnington. -- The twentieth century / Frank Herrmann. -- Sir Karl Parker : survey of a recent stewardship / J. Byam Shaw, Ian Robertson. -- Filling the gaps / Sir John Rothenstein. -- The need for more. -- Sir William Burrell's purchase books (1911-1957) / William Wells. -- Select, annotated bibliography. -- Index.

Summary:

The English as Collectors gathers an abundance of writings, largely from contemporary sources, tracing the history of collecting and connoisseurship from Charles I up through the trends of the 20th century.

ISBN:

1884718833 (alk. paper)
9781884718830 (alk. paper)
0719561442 (Murray)
9780719561443 (Murray)
1587540004

Subject:

Art Collectors and collecting Great Britain.
Art Collectionneurs et collections Grande-Bretagne.
Art Collectors and collecting.
Great Britain.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207234
Call No.: N5245 .H4 1999
Status: Available