The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities , 2015
- Title(s):
The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities : an Anglo-Irish country house museum / edited by Arthur MacGregor.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 495 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryAM401.C63 M33 2015 (LC) OversizeAccessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12470293
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Cobb family -- Art collections.Cobb family -- Natural history collections.Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century.Collectors and collecting -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.Newbridge House.
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- Introduction-The cabinet of curiosities at the turn of the nineteenth century: the Cobbe museum and its contemporaries
- Archbishop Cobbe Swiftiana
- Cabinets and furniture
- Zoological curios and taxidermy
- Insects
- Shells
- Charles Cobbe's herbarium
- Minerals, rocks and fossils, and geological curios
- Antlers of Megaceros
- Stone projectile tips
- Classical and Egyptian antiquities
- Coins and medals
- Lithophane
- Gem facsimiles
- Early modern curiosities
- Anatomical illustration
- India
- Burma
- Nepal
- China and Japan
- Africa, the Pacific and North America
- The continuing collection.