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Scholars, travellers, and trade : the pioneer years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840 /

Halbertsma, Ruurd B.,

Scholars, travellers, and trade : the pioneer years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840 / R.B. Halbertsma. - 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Early collections of classical art in the Netherlands : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 3. C.J.C. Reuvens and the archaeological cabinet in Leiden, 1818 -- 4. Collections and conflicts -- 5. The Greek collections of B.E.A. Rottiers -- 6. Jean Emile Humbert : the quest for Carthage -- 7. Station Livorno : the Etruscan and Egyptian collections -- 8. Forum Hadriani : digging behind the dunes -- 9. The ideal museum : dreams and reality -- 10. End of the pioneer years, 1835-40.

ISBN: 9780203634547 9781134475223 9781134475261 9781134475278

Standard No.: 10.4324/9780203634547 doi

Subjects--Personal Names:
Reuvens, Caspar Jacob Christiaan, 1793-1835.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Archaeologists--Netherlands--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Netherlands--History--1815-1830.
Netherlands--History--1830-1849.

LC Class. No.: AM101.L536 / H35 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 069.09492 / H157