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Title(s):
Curious specimens [videorecording] : enlightenment objects, collections, narratives : conference, 15-17 April 2010.
Published/Created:
London, 2010.
Physical Description:
6 videodisc (DVD) (263 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Holdings:
Reference Library
DVD 177
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10075967
Classification:
Computer Files
Notes:
DVD.
This confrence brings together academic and museum scholars to present and discuss new perspectives on eighteenth-century practices of collecting, using as its focus two exhibitions: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill (V&A, 6 March - 4 July 2010) and Mrs. Delaney and her circle (Sir John Soane's Museum, 19 February - 1 May 2010)
Subject Terms:
Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715–1785.
Walpole, Horace, 1717–1797 -- Collectors and collecting.
Contributors:
Smith, Pamela H., 1957–
Meyers, Amy R. W.
Snodin, Michael.
Weisberg-Roberts, Alicia.
Eger, Elizabeth.
Neri, Janice.
Allen, Brian, 1952–
Sloboda, Stacey.
Aymonino, Adriano.
Hanson, Craig Ashley.
Bann, Stephen.
Powell, Margaret K. (Margaret Ketchum), 1947–
Baker, Malcolm, 1945–
Sullivan, Greg.
Knox, Tim.
Roman, Cynthia E.
Sweet, Rosemary.
Haggerty, George E.
Calè, Luisa.
Sloan, Kim.
Birkbeck College.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Yale Center for British Art.
Lewis Walpole Library.
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  • [1] Keynote: Curious modes of production: making objects in early modern world / Pamela Smith.--[2-3] Panel 1: Walpole and Delany / Michael Snodin and Alicia Weisberg Roberts; chaired by Amy Meyers.--Panel 2: Collectors, predisciplinarity, divisions of knowledge. Quills and other feathers: Elizabeth Montagu and the matter of friendship / Elizabeth Eger [and] Paper kingdoms: Mary Delany, the Duchess of Portland, and the Consequences of collage / Janice Neri; chaired by Alicia Weisberg Roberts.--Panel 3: Collectors, predisciplinarity, divisions of knowledge II. Materials displays: porcelain and natural history in the Duchess of Portland's Museum / Stacey Sloboda; A mirror of the enlightenment: the collections of Elizabeth Seymour Percy, first Duchess of Northumberland / Adriano Aymonino; Collecting virture: the patronage and acquisitions of Richard Mead in early Georgian London / Craig Hanson; chaired by Brian Allen.
  • Plenary: Curiosity future and past: Siting Horace Walpole / Stephan Bann; chaired by Margaret Powell.--[4-6] Keynote: Walpole and sculpture / Malcolm Baker; chaired by Greg Sullivan.--Panel 1: Aesthetic and/or antiquarian collecting. Collecting copies, surrogates, and misattributions / Cynthia Roman; Contrary to my system and my humour: Horace Walpole and antiquarian collecting in the 18th century / Rosemary Sweet; Eccentric collectors: Walpole, Beckford, and the Eroctics of things / George Haggerty; chaired by Tim Knox.--Final Panel discussion: Museums, collecting, predisciplinarity / malcolm Baker, Tim Knox, Kim Sloan, Michael Snodin; chaired by Luisa Calè.