Ancient marbles in Great Britain

THE AUTHOR´S PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS

GEOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY

ERRATA AND ADDENDA

INTRODUCTION, ON THE INFLUX OF ANTIQUE SCULPTURES INTO GREAT BRITAIN:

I. THE ARUNDEL MARBLESAND OTHER EARLY COLLECTIONS

1. No antiques in England in the 16th century.

2. Henry, Prince of Wales.

3. Lord Arundcl's tours in Italy.

4. His Italian marbles.

5. The country of Greece.

6. Sir Thomas Roe in Constantinople.

7. William Petty.

8. The Duke of Buckingham.

9. Roe's and Petty's joint plans.

10. Arundel and Buckingham.

11. Petty's activity.

12. Roe's efforts.

13. Buckingham's marbles. Other collectors at Court.

14. Peacham's Compleat Gentleman.

15. Lord Arundel's Greek sculptures.

16. Increase of the collection. Its rising fame.

17. General view of the Arundel collection.

18. King Charles I.'s collection of antiquities.

19. Vicissitudes of the royal collection after 1649.

20. The Arundel collection during the Revolution.

21. The neglect thereof. The inscriptions presented to Oxford.

22. Dispersion of the whole collection.

23. The coins and gems.

24. The Pomfret marbles.

25. Thomas, Lord Pembroke.

26. The Mazarin collection.

27. the antiques in Wilton House.

28. Sir P. Lely, Lord Winchelsea, Lord Carteret, J. Kemp.

29. Dr. Mead.

30. Conyers Middleton. Collectors of coins. W. Courten. Hans Sloane.

31. The Duke of devonshire.

II. THE GOLDEN AGE OF CLASSIC DELETTANTISM. ROME AND ENGLAND

32. Travels to the South in the time of the Stuarts.

33. The fashion of the 'grand tour.' Sir A. Fountaine. Lord Burlington.

34. Th. Coke (Lord Leicester).

35. Lord Carlisle, Lord Bessborough, Duke of Beaufort.

36. Other travelling collectors. The Richardsons.

37. Foundation of the Society of Delettanti.

38. Activity of its members.

39. State of things at Rome. Foundation of the Capitoline Museum.

40. Dealers and restorers. Cavaceppi.

41. Perry, the Walpoles, Hollis and Brand, and smaller collectors.

42. Lord Leicester.

43. Lord Egremont.

44. British artists in Rome. Gavin Hamilton.

45. Thomas Jenkins.

46. His practices.

47. His purchases of antiques.

48. Hamilton's and Jenkins' new excavations.

49. Results. Restorations.

50. King George III. The Duke of Marlborough.

51. British travellers.

52. Lyde Browne.

53. Lord Palmerston, Weddell, Gen. Walmoden.

54. Locke, Duke of Richmond, Duncombe, Jennings, Lord Exeter, Lord Yarborough, Lord Cawdor, &c.

55. Founding of the Vatican Museum.

56. Competitors from other quarters. Charles Townley.

57. Townley in London.

58. H. Blundell.

59. Smith-Barry, Mansel-Talbot, Sir Thomas Robinson, Duke of Dorset, Sir G. Strickland, Lord Temple, Duke of St. Albans, &c.

60. Lord Shelburne (Lanssowne).

61. Thomas Hope.

62. The Revolution in Rome and its consequences. Earl of Bristol.

63. William Hamilton and his first collection.

64. Sir W. Hamilton's second collection.

65. Relations with Greece.

66. Sir Richard Worsley.

67. Morritt, Lord Aberdeen, Clarke, Rob. Walpole, Hawkins.

68. Payne Knight as a collector. Lord Northwick.

69. Payne Knight as a litterateur. The Specimens of Antient Sculpture.

70. J. Dallaway.

71. Sales. Increase of the British Museum

III. THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. GREECE AND ENGLAND.

72.Travellers in Greece: Dodwell, Gell, Leake.

73. Cockerell and other architects. Bassae.

74. Lord Elgin's undertakings.

75. The new Firman and its consequences.

76. Transport of the marbles to England.

77. Opposition to the Elgin marbles. Payne Knight.

78. Champions of the Elgin marbles. West, Fuseli, Haydon.

79. Attempts to sell the collection. Lord Byron.

80. Foreign aid. Visconti. Lord Elgin's renewed proposals.

81. The Phigalia marbles. Canova's visit. Select committee.

82. Deliberations of the committee. Literary warfare.

83. The purchase of the Elgin marbles for the British Museum.

84. The activity of the Society of Dilettanti.

85. Minor collectors. Westmacott, Rogers.

86. The Duke of Bedford.

87. Collectors at Rome. Duke of Buckingham, Lord Kinnaird, Disney, &c.

88. Sir William Temple. collectors at Athens: Lord Guilford, Burgon, Lady Ruthven.

89. Other collectors in Greece: Lord Strangford, Borrell, Woodhouse.

90. Collectors in London: Edwards, Burke, Chinnery, Sir J. Coghill, Sir H. Englefield, Sir J. Soane, Slade, Gen. Fox.

91. Decline of classical dilettantism.

92. Additions to the British Museum. Fellows. Sir Stratford Canning.

93. Discoveries of Newton, Wood, Pullan.

94. Salzmann and Biliotti, Cesnola, Smith and Porcher, Dennis, Davis.

95. Purchases of Farnese, Pourtales, Blacas, Castellani collections, &c.

96. Private collectors of marbles: Lord Lonsdale, Cook, &c.

97. Collectors of small antiques: Hertz, Mayer, Forman, Auldjo, &c.

98. Perils of private collection.

99. Evils of private collections.

100. Passing of private collections into public museums.

APPENDIX (Letters of Sir Thomas Roe)

CATALOGUE OF COLLECTIONS.

Explanation of some abbreviations

St. Ann's Hill, Surrey (Lady Holland)

Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire (Marquis of Northampton)

Battlesden, Bedfordshire (D. Bromilow, Esq.)

Bignor Park, Sussex (C. H. T. Hawkins, Esq.)

Birmingham, Warwickshire (J. A. Crane, Esq.)

Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (Duke of Marlborough)

Boynton, Yorkshire (Sir W. Strickland)

Broadlands, Hampshire (Rt. Hon. W. Cowper Temple)

Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire (Earl of Yarborough)

Broom Hall, Scotland (Earl of Elgin)

Cambridge

Fitzwilliam Museum

Trinity College Library

Rev. C. W. King

St John's College

Canterbury, Kent (Museum)

Chatsworth, Derbyshire (Duke of Devonshire)

Chichester, Sussex (Museum)

Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire (Duke of Newcastle)

Colchester, Essex (Museum. Rev. J. H. Pollexfen)

Dalkeith Palace, Scotland (Duke of Buccleuch)

Deeprene, Surrey (Mrs Hope)

Denton Hall, Northumberland (Lord Rokeby)

Ditchley, Oxfordshire (Viscount Dillon

Duncombe Park, Yorkshire (Earl of Feversham)

Dunrobin Castle, Scotland (Duke of Sutherland)

Easton Neston, Northamptonshire (Earl of Pomfret)

Edinburgh

Antiquarian Museum

Architects' Institution

Royal Institution

Lord Murray

Hamilton Palace, Scotland (Duke of Hamilton)

Hillingdor Court, Middlesex (Lady Mills)

Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Earl of Leicester)

Houghton Hall, Norfolk (Marquis of Cholmondeley)

Hovingham, Yorkshire (Sir W. C. Worsley)

Castle Howard, Yorkshire (Earl of Carlisle)

The Hyde, Essex (J. Disney, Esq.)

Ickworth, Suffolk (Earl of Bristol)

Ince Blundell Hall, Lancashire (Th. Wld Blundell, Esq.)

Ketteringham Hall, Norfolk (Sir J. Boileau)

Kingston Lacy, Dorsetshire) W. R. Bankes, Esq.)

Knole, Kent (Lord Sackville)

Liverpool (Public Museum)

London

Apsly House (Duke of Wellington)

Atkinson, Esq.

C. S. Bale, Esq.

Burlington House (Society of Antiquaries)

Col. Maitland Crichton

Devonshire House (Duke of Devonshire)

Lord Elcho

R. Ford, Esq.

A. W. Franks, Esq.

Guildhall

W. R. Hamilton, Esq., the late

Holland House

Lansdowne House (Marquis of Lansdowne)

Lord Leicester

Lord De Mauley

Mr. Mellhuish

Soane Museum

South Kensington Museum

Stafford House (Duke of Sutherland)

Lord Wemyss

Sir R. Westmacott, The late

Lord Yarborough

Lowther Castle, Westmoreland (Earl of Lonsdale)

Marbury Hall, Cheshire (A. H. Smith Barry, Esq.)

Margam, Glamorganshire (C. R. Mansel Talbot, Esy.)

Narford Hall, Norfolk (A. C. Fountaine, Esq.)

Newby hall, Yorkshire (Lady M. Vyner)

Osborne, Isle of Wight (Royal Palace)

Osterley Park, Middlesex (Earl of Jersey)

Oxford

University Galleries

The Schools

Ashmolean Museum

All Souls' College

Christ Church College

Radeliffe Library

Penrice Castle, Glamorganshire (C. R. mansel Talbot, Esq.)

Penshurst, Kent (Viscount De Lisle and Dudley)

Petworth House, Sussex (Lord Leconfield)

Pippbrook House, Surrey (Mrs. Seymour Burt)

Ramsgate, Kent (H. Curling, Esq.)

Richmond, Surrey (Francis Cook, Esq.)

Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire (Col. Morritt)

Rossie Priory, Scotland (Lord Kinnaird)

Salisbury, Wiltshire (Blackmore Museum)

Shobden, Herefordshire (Lord Bateman)

Stanmore Hill, Middlesex (C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq.)

Stourhead House, Wiltshire (Sir R. Hoare)

Stratfield Saye, Hampshire (Duke of Wellington)

Trentham Hall, Staffordshire (Duke of Sutherland)

Tunbridge Wells, Kent (Admiral Spratt)

Warwick Castle, Warwickshire (Earl of Warwick)

Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire (F. W. T. Vernon-Wentworth, Esq.)

Wentworth House, Yorkshire (Earl Fitzwilliam)

Wilton House, Wiltshire (Earl of Pembroke)

Wimbleden, Surrey (- Beaumont, Esq.)

Windsor Castle, Berkshire (Royal Palace)

Winton Castle, Scotland (Lady Ruthven)

Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (Duke of Bedford)

Indexes

I. Collectors, collections, Sources, &c.

II. Drawings and Engravings

III. Subjects represented

IV. Epigraphical Index

LISTE OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS

Plate I. Relief, girl with two doves (Brocklesby Park, no. 17)

Plate II. Fragment of a statue of a Kistophoros (Cambridge, no. 1)

Fig. 1. Right shoulder of the same statue

Plate III. Head of Aphrodite (Holkham Hall, no. 37)

Fig. 3. Relief, Zeus (Ince Blundell Hall, no. 259)

Fig. 4. Relief, a Centaur (Ince Blundell Hall, no. 267)

Plate V. Satue of an Amazon (Lansdowne House, no. 83)

Plate VI. Statue of Hermes (Lansdowne House, no. 83)

Plate VII. Bust of a heroine (Petworth House, no. 27)

Fig. 5. Votive Relief to Zeus (Wilton House, no. 48)

Plate IX. Relief, a Greek maiden (Woburn Abbey, no. 100)