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The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum
Title
The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
ISBN
9780300204353 (cl : alk. paper)
0300204353 (cl : alk. paper)
Publication
New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
495 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 28, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction-The cabinet of curiosities at the turn of the nineteenth century: the Cobbe museum and its contemporaries
Archbishop Cobbe Swiftiana
Cabinets and furniture
Zoological curios and taxidermy
Insects
Shells
Charles Cobbe's herbarium
Minerals, rocks and fossils, and geological curios
Antlers of Megaceros
Stone projectile tips
Classical and Egyptian antiquities
Coins and medals
Lithophane
Gem facsimiles
Early modern curiosities
Anatomical illustration
India
Burma
Nepal
China and Japan
Africa, the Pacific and North America
The continuing collection.
Subjects
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, issuing body.
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