Producing the past : aspects of antiquarian culture and practice, 1700-1850 / edited by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c1999.Brookfield, Vt : Ashgate, c1999.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 214 p. : ill., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
LWL 63 999 P942: Dust jacket.
Contents:
Introduction : 'Mine are the subjects rejected by the historian' : antiquarianism, history and the making of modern culture / Lucy Peltz and Martin Myrone -- Ceci n'est pas un monument : Vetusta monumenta and antiquarian aesthetics / Maria Grazia Lolla -- Graphic antiquarianism in eighteenth-century Britain : the career and reputation of George Vertue (1684-1756) / Martin Myrone -- British antiquity and antiquarian illustration / Sam Smiles -- 'A small journey into the country' : William Stukeley and the formal landscapes of Stonehenge and Avebury / David Haycock -- The true rust of the Barons' Wars : gardens, ruins and the national landscape / Stephen Bending -- Caspar David Friedrich and national antiquarianism in Northern Germany / Johann J.K. Reusch -- The extra-illustration of London : the gendered spaces and practices of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth century / Lucy Peltz -- The desk : excavation site and repository of memories / Annegret Pelz ; translated and revised by Anne Puetz -- Antiquarianism, connoisseurship and the Northern Renaissance print : new collecting cultures in the early nineteenth century / Heather MacLennan -- Science and sensibility : architectural antiquarianism in the early nineteenth century / Alexandrina Buchanan -- Story, history and the passionate collector / Susan A. Crane.
Subject Terms:
Museums -- Historiography. | Historical museums -- History. | Museum techniques -- Historiography. | Historiography -- History. | Antiquarians -- Historiography. | Archaeology and history. | Material culture. | Antiquities.