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During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's most intriguing collectors following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects.
From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
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Index
1st Cheshire Rifles 249, 251
4th Bebington Company 250
34th Regiment of Foot 249
38th Middlesex (Artistsâ) Rifle Volunteers 251
Abbey of Stavelot, Belgium 283
Abbotsford, Melrose 197
Abeokuta, Nigeria 334
Aberdeen 36
Abu Simbel temples, Egypt 227
Abyssinia (later Ethiopia): Magdala Treasure 222â23
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris 54
Académie Française, Paris 54
Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris 54
Academy 175
Aesthetic movement, Aesthetes 24, 266, 284
African art 333â34
Agnew, William 115
Agnewâs 106, 272
Albert, Prince Consort 18, 69, 75, 103â4, 114, 154, 226, 229, 231â34, 334
Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 33â34
Alcock, Sir Rutherford 345, 346
Alexandra, Princess (later Queen) 221
Alfred Jewel 201
Alicante, Spain 167â68
Alnwick Castle 199
Altes Museum, Berlin 238
Amsterdam 165, 169, 178, 269
André, Alfred 306
Angelico, Fra: Adoration of the Magi 64
Anning, Mary 155, 156
anthropology 325
antiquarianism 196â200
Antwerp 172, 173
Arley Castle, Staffordshire 220
Arnold, Matthew: âCulture and Anarchyâ articles 24
art critics, female 175, 176
art history 117â18
Art Journal 84â85, 89, 118, 206
Art Nouveau 266
Art Treasures Exhibition (Manchester, 1857) 8, 13, 23, 46, 158, 169, 228â37
Arthur, King 140
âArtistsâ Housesâ 271
Arts and Crafts movement 23â24
Asclepius-Hygieia diptych 227
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 199, 226, 356
Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria 142
Astor, William Waldorf 305
Athenaeum, The 77
Athenae...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Catching the Collecting Bug
- Making Museums: Collecting as a Career
- Ransacking and Revolution: The European Crusade
- Pride, Passion and Loss: Collecting for Love
- Fashion, Fine Dining and Forgeries: Dealing in Society
- Collecting the Empire: In Pursuit of the Exotic
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates