British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

Volume III: Museums
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-33090-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British collections were built by the same people whose work comprises volume two. They began as private collections, meant as status symbols usually for the wealthy, or for those who wished to show evidence of their wide travels. However, gradually, many of these collections were left in wills to municipal institutions or turned into publicly available collections themselves.

The British Museum, originally founded in 1759, opened its first purpose built gallery for Egyptian antiquities in 1808. The Townley Gallery was built to house the antiquities seized from the French in 1801, including the Rosetta Stone, and the collection has been growing ever since. Later, the British Museum hired people who were already in Egypt, or who were going to Egypt of their own accord, to gather and send back artifacts. As the discipline of archaeology in Egypt became a scholarly pursuit, museums began to sponsor their own expeditions in order to fill their now bursting stores. Collecting in order to possess the past, both physically and ideologically, of a subjected people was the point.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheppard, Kathleen L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altes Ägypten & Ägyptische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume III: Museums

General Introduction

Volume III Introduction

Part 1. Collectors and Collecting

1. Henry Abbott, Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, MD, no exhibiting at the Stuyvestant Institute, New York (New York: J. W. Harrison, 1854), pp. i–viii, 5–16.

2. Alexander Henry Rhind, ‘How the Demand for Egyptian Relics has been Supplied…’ Thebes: Its Tombs and their Tenants, ancient and present, including a record of excavations in the Necropolis (London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1862), pp. 242–74.

3. Robert J. A. Hay and Joseph Bonomi, Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Belonging to the Late Robert Hay, Esq., of Linplum (London: Thomson & Pinder, 1869), pp. 110–23.

Part 2. Private Collections

4. Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration Executed from Designs (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), pp. 1–18, 26–7.

5. William John Bankes, Geometrical Elevation of an Obelisk from the Island of Philae (London: John Murray, 1821).

6. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, A history of Egyptian mummies:and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834), pp. 227–30.

Part 3. Private to Public

7. William Bullock, A Companion To The Liverpool Museum, Containing A Brief Description Of Upwards Of Four Thousand Of Its Natural & Foreign Curiosities, Antiquities & Productions Of The Fine Arts. Seventh Edition (Liverpool: Liverpool Museum, 1809), pp. ii–vii, 65–8.

8. Sir John Soane, Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane (London: Levey, Robson, and Franklyn, 1835), pp. 32–5 and plates.

9. ‘A Reverie at the Crystal Palace,’ Punch Magazine Vol 26 (17 June 1854), pp. 250–1.

10. Erasmus Wilson, Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks (London: Brain & Co, 1878), pp. v–x, 10–14, 17–9, 76–9, 89–90, 128–31, 167–8, 182–4.

11. Greville John Chester, Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the Ashmolean (Oxford: Parker and Co, 1881), pp. iii–viii, 93–100.

12. Amelia Edwards, ‘The Provincial and Private Collections of Egyptian Antiquities in Great Britain,’ Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la philologie et a l'archeologie egyptienne et assyriennes, 10: 3-4 (1888), pp. 121–133.

13. Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898), pp. v–vii, xi–xvi.

Part 4. National Museums

14. Samuel Birch, ‘Description of an Egyptian tomb Now preserved in the British Museum,’ Archaeologia Vol XXIX (1841), pp. 111–26.

15. William Mason, A Guide to the British Museum; Fully Descriptive of all the Most interesting Natural Curiosities, Works of Art, Greek and Roman Sculptures, Egyptian Antiquities, and other objects, worthy the attention of visitors in General (London: William Mason, 1844).

16. Charles Knight (ed.), London Volume VI (London: Henry Bohn, 1851), pp. 161–76.

17. Charles Gatty, Catalogue of the Mayer Collection, Part I. The Egyptian Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities. Second, revised edition (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1879), pp. iii–xii, 23–32.

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen L. Sheppard is Professor of history in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T, USA. She is also the Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.