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

By:

Halbertsma, Ruurd B [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780203634547
9781134475223
9781134475261
9781134475278

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Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:

069.09492 H157

LOC classification:

AM101.L536 H35 2003

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Contents:

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.