Contents:
Preface 6
Contributors 8
Acknowledgements 9
Pt. I. The 'Universal Museum' 10
1. 'Aimed at universality and belonging to the nation': the Enlightenment and the British Museum / Kim Sloan 12
2. Collectors and commemoration: portrait sculpture and paintings in the British Museum / Aileen Dawson 26
3. 'Most curious, splendid and useful': the King's Library of George III / Graham Jefcoate 38
4. The King's Library and its architectural genesis / Tim Knox 46
5. Ancient glory and modern learning: the sculpture-decorated library / Thorsten Opper 58
Pt. II. The Natural World 68
6. Challenging the dogma: classifying and describing the natural world / Robert Huxley 70
7. Natural history collectors and their collections: 'simpling macaronis' and instruments of empire / Robert Huxley 80
8. The nature of the earth and the fossil debate / Jill Cook 92
9. Rocks, fossils and the emergence of palaeontology / Jill Cook 100
Pt. III. The Artificial World 106
10. The ordering of the artifical world: collecting, classification and progress / Luke Syson 108
11. 'The King love medals': the study of coins in Europe and Britain / Andrew Burnett 122
12. Engraved gems: the lost art of antiquity / Judy Rudoe 132
13. Words and pictures: Greek vases and their classification / Lucilla Burn 140
14. Between antiquarianism and experiment: Hans Sloane, George III and collecting science / Silke Ackermann, Jane Wess 150
15. King George III's topographical collection: a Georgian view of Britain and the world / Peter Barber 158
Pt. IV. Ancient Civilizations: New Interpretations 166
16. Ideas of antiquity: classical and other ancient civilizations in the age of Enlightenment / Ian Jenkins 168
17. The discovery of British antiquity / Jill Cook 178
18. From Persepolis to Babylon and Nineveh: the rediscovery of the ancient Near East / St. John Simpson 192
19. 'The curse of Babel': the Enlightenment and the study of writing / Clive Cheesman 202
20. Sacred history? The difficult subject of religion / Jonathan Williams 212
Pt. V. Voyages of Discovery 222
21. Venture to the exterior / Brian Durrans 224
22. Romancing the Americas: public expeditions and private research c. 1778-1827 / J. C. H. King 234
23. Irresistible objects: collecting in the Pacific and Australia in the reign of George III / Jennifer Newell 246
24. Trade and learning: the European 'discovery' of the East / Joe Cribb, Jessica Harrison-Hall, Tim Clark 258
25. Africa: in the shadow of the Enlightenment / Nigel Barley 270
Chronological table 276
Further reading and notes 278
Picture credits 300
Index 301
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