| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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Classical Presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Knowledge work and the proliferation of antiquities -- Part I. Natural History and Antiquity -- 1. Beyond patronage : knowledge, work, professional ambition, and the competing narratives of the Endeavour voyage -- 2. Campi phlegraei and the Neapolitan pursuit of 'most remote antiquity' -- Part II. Greek Vases and Deep Time in Naples --3. Baron d'Hancarville, Sir William Hamilton, and the collaborative production of antiquities -- 4. The natural history of art : customs and manners in the collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman antiquities -- 5. 'The history, written by themselves' : ancient religion, deep time, and embedded history -- Part III. England's Ruins -- Interlude : Classical to Gothic -- 6. Antiquarianism and the science of preservation : Jacob Schnebbelie, Richard Gough, and Gothic antiquity -- 7. 'The whole of this coast is composed of ruins' : Thomas Webster's fieldwork on the Isle of Wight |
| Summary |
In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines. This title traces the production of five scholarly plate books on subjects of major literary and scientific interest at the time: South Pacific voyaging, Mount Vesuvius, ancient Greek vases, monuments in English cathedrals, and the geology of southeast England. Focusing on illustrators, fieldworkers, and ghostwriters associated with this type of scholarly publication, Heringman explores how the expertise acquired by these largely self-educated intellectuals precipitated a major shift in the way research was done - from patronage to professionalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Scholarly publishing -- History
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Antiquities.
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Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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Antiquities
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Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
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Scholarly publishing
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191626067 |
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0191626066 |
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9780191744990 |
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0191744999 |
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