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Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]

… John de Monis Johnson (1882-1956) and Francis Bridgford Brady (1890-1981). 18   In the eighteenth century, playbill collecting was ‘an integral part of more generalist collecting practices that situated the theater as part of associational culture as a whole’ (Russell 255). Collectors of … in its exhibitions by these collectors. Banks held a regular salon at 32 Soho Square at which she may have discussed her collecting and James Winston—perhaps one of the century’s most prolific playbill enthusiasts—amassed a huge collection …

Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… fellow clerks and local City officeholders. Drinking and gaming were fun ways to pass the time, but Pepys was also collecting news to send to his patron Mountagu, who was in the country.  In the turmoil of early 1660, with riots in … naval work in 1665. Pepys and Evelyn were both active members of the Royal Society and they shared a love of music, book collecting, and art. In the 1690s, having been forced to retire from the Admiralty after James II was overthrown, Pepys …

Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]

… joined by society and groups of much broader appeal, often with a philanthropic bent’. 3 3 . Joan Coutu, Then and Now: Collecting Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), p. 11. Les … and Dealing in Eighteenth-century Rome (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Burrows, Toby, and Cynthia Johnston, Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries ( London: Routledge, … Sourcebook (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press; London: J. Murray, 1999). Jasanoff, Maya, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East, 1750-1850 (London: Fourth Estate, 2005). McAleer, John, and John M. Mackenzie, Exhibiting the …

Society of Antiquaries of Scotland [ Clubs & Societies ]

… identity The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland nourished intertwining scientific and political ambitions. The collecting of old maps, public as well as private archives, artefacts and remains would contribute to a better … Bishop Geddes And the Earl Of Buchan’, The Innes Review (vol. 15, n°2, December 1964), p. 122-139. Sheridan, Alison, ‘Collecting European antiquities as part of the Scottish antiquarian tradition’ in Luc Amkreutz (ed.), Collecting ancient Europe: National Museums and the search for European Antiquities in the 19 th -early 20 th century …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… the interest of notable historians, politicians, traders and men of letters.   3 . Sarah Easterby-Smith, ‘Botanical Collecting in Eighteenth-Century London’, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (vol. 34, no. 4, 2017), p. 279-297. 4 . On the … mind is an empty cabinet to be furnished ’ - in order to attain several truths. One of these truths was that with their collecting of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, wealthy and refined women were contributing to the …