The Cobbe cabinet of curiosities , 2015
- Title:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- 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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