The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
Published / Created:
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
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
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.
Subject Terms:
Newbridge House. | Cobb family -- Natural history collections. | Cobb family -- Art collections. | Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century. | Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
Contributors:
MacGregor, Arthur, 1941– editor. | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, issuing body.