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During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's most intriguing collectors following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects.From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
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During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's most intriguing collectors following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beautiful objects. From art connoisseur John Charles Robinson, to the aristocratic scholar Charlotte Schreiber, who ransacked Europe for treasure, and from London's fashionable Pre-Raphaelite circle to pioneering Orientalists in Beijing, Jacqueline Yallop plunges us into the cut-throat world of the Victorian mania for collecting.
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Autorenportrait
- Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. She has been curator of the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield and now writes novels. She does not collect anything.
Detailansicht
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves
eBook - How the Victorians Collected the World
ISBN/EAN: 9780857895615
Umbreit-Nr.: 3641492
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 524 S., 1.12 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.05.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen