The hummingbird cabinet a rare and curious history of romantic collectors
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the collecting obsessions of the period: birds, books, Napoleonic relics, botanical specimens, Egyptiana, and fossils. Judith Pa...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- The last guitar Shelley ever played
- Hummingbird collectors and romantic poetry
- Queen Charlotte, collector and collectible
- Travels with Napoleon's carriage
- Belzoni in ruins
- Mary Anning recollected
- Lights out for the romantic collectors.
