Download or read book The Tradescants as Collectors of Rarities written by Arthur Grant MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tradescant s Rarities written by Ashmolean Museum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections
Download or read book Curiosities and Texts written by Marjorie Swann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
Download or read book The John Tradescants written by Prudence Leith-Ross and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive study of John Tradescant the elder and his son, two remarkable men who traveled to new or little-known lands in search of botanical treasures - John the elder to Russia, the Near East, and North Africa, and John the younger to the new colony of Virginia. They worked for a series of eminent patrons including Robert Cecil, the Duke of Buckingham, and Charles I, for whom they supervised the creation of some of the great gardens of the period. Identifying the varieties of plants which were first grown by the Tradescants or introduced to the country by one of them, this study also features extensive appendices reproducing the complete texts of the Tradescants' lists of plants as well as the Musaeum Tradescantianum, the younger Tradescants' catalog of the museum collection. Each plant is identified with its modern botanical name, making this an essential work for all those interested in the history of gardening and British plants.
Download or read book Strange Blooms written by Jennifer Potter and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Jennifer Potter's book vividly evokes the drama of their lives and takes its readers to the edge of an expanding universe. Strange Blooms is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants.
Download or read book The Tradescants written by Mea Allan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ark to Ashmolean written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consuming Splendor written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Download or read book The bibliographer s manual of English literature containing an account of rare curious and useful books publ in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ashmolean Museum written by John Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter Communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society written by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London written by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1869-1952 include Extracts from the proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society.
