The Collections of Francis Douce, 1757-1834

A Community of Images
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-032-06838-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

This book explores the collections, the networks, and the methods of the antiquarian and scholar of the everyday Francis Douce (1757-1834). Throughout his life, Douce acquired rare books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, paintings, miscellaneous antiquities, and about 25,000 prints and drawings with a view to understand how people lived in the past and how they made sense of the world around them. The peculiarity of his collections is due partly to his favouring subject matter over any aesthetic consideration, and partly to his aim to create a repository of images to trace the circulation of themes and motifs across historical periods and geographical borders. From fools to witchcraft to the dance of death, Douce embraced themes, media, and forms of representation neglected or considered too coarse by most contemporary collectors.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cerón, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ch 1: Introduction: the Douce papers.- Ch 2: A community of images.- Ch 3: Antiquarian networks.- Ch 4: Coincidences, chance, and gossip.- Ch 5: The problem with taxonomy.- Ch 6: Transmission as translation.

Über Autor(innen)

Mercedes Cerón is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Salamanca, Spain.