Furnishing the Court

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulian Wu
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Personal Networks ◽  
Managerial Ability ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
Tribute System ◽  
Private Collections

Chapter 2 examines the Huizhou head merchants’ interaction with the most precious and expensive goods in eighteenth-century Jiangnan. It explores how these businessmen produced and procured objects for imperial use through the tribute system, manufacturing, and the Qianlong emperor’s empire-wide book collecting project. This chapter shows in detail how the Huizhou salt merchants procured objects from local workshops, markets, and private collections and how their personal networks and managerial ability enabled them to “run errands” for the court. While the salt merchants supplemented formal state bureaucratic systems and served as the emperor’s informal agents in Jiangnan, they also facilitated an exchange of style and taste between the capital and Jiangnan.

scholarly journals Formación y cultura escrita: los libros del agrimensor Francisco Falcón (1764)

2020 ◽  
pp. 611
Author(s):  
Amparo García Cuadrado
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Nature ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Bibliographic Collection

This article approaches the study of the private library of the Murcian land surveyor Francisco Falcón de los Reyes, from the first half of the eighteenth century, which constitutes a clear example of the relationship between education and written culture. From the data extracted from a postmortem inventory and the subsequent appraisal and partition of goods among the heirs, we carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of said library. First, the text provides a biographical profile of this geometer, a descendant of slaves (new Christians), and describes the formative precariousness of these professionals in their time. The quantitative analysis of the bibliographic collection and its comparison with other private collections from similar socioeconomic fields indicate the importance of this particular collection. The qualitative study of authors and titles shows, on one hand, the high degree of mathematical training of the subject, who is shown to be a recipient of the fundamentally Valencian pre-illustrated reformist scientific mainstream, and, on the other hand, the purpose with which those books were incorporated into the funds of the collection. Together with the library, which we could call professional, due to its scientific nature, the inventoried religious matter in the form of printed documents makes up another interesting part of the collection, one of a catechetical nature in its various formative levels

Cultures of collecting

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
David Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Evidence

Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.

BIAGIO BURLINI, UN OTTICO DEL '700 VENEZIANO

Nuncius ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-220
Author(s):  
ALBERTO LUALDI
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Optical Instrument ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Collections

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The sphere of activity of Biagio Burlini, an optician and instrumentmaker working in Venice around the middle of the eighteenth century, is here pointed out. A research in the Archivio Patriarcale of Venice allowed to find the year of his birth (1709) and his death (13.1.1771). A survey of signed microscopes and telescopes now in various public and private collections contributes to a better knowledge of optical instrument-makers in that century.

The long life of the book: public book auctions in Leiden 1725-1805 and the second-hand book trade

Quaerendo ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannie Van Goinga
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Private Collections

AbstractIn the Dutch Republic the books that were sold in public auction were bound, which implied that they were second-hand. They came either from private collections or from booksellers' stock. For the eighteenth-century Leiden booksellers auctions were an important outlet for the second-hand trade. This is demonstrated on the basis of the auction ledgers of the firm of Luchtmans. In their auction catalogues booksellers often mixed their own stock in with private libraries. Of only 194 of the 1707 public auctions recorded for the period 1725-1805 catalogues are known, i.e. 11,4%. It is shown that these catalogues are not representative for public auctions in general and cannot be used as sources for developments in the book trade. The practice of mixing in and combining books makes their use as sources for the study of private ownership problematical. In an outline of the Leiden public auctions for the period 1725-1805 the number of auctions is given, as well as the turnovers per five-year period and the average annual turnovers. The fluctuations in the five-year turnovers for 1725-70 correspond with the general economic trends. A remarkable rise in the turnovers occurred between 1776 and 1785 - the more notable as the economic crisis of 1772-3 took a long time to overcome. Just in this period the position of the book and its cultural importance

scholarly journals Libri e stampe di casa Manfrin a Venezia tra Sette e Ottocento. Prime considerazioni

Venezia Arti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Borean
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Illustrated Books ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Venetian Republic ◽  
Private Collections

Manfrin’s gallery in Venice has been one of the most famous private collections assembled in the Venetian Republic at the end of the eighteenth century, becoming a must-to-see for visitors and artists during the following century. Recent literature addressed mainly his painting collection, shedding light on its history and dispersal, while less attention has been paid to his library and print cabinet, both formed and increased from the last years of Settecento onwards. New documentary sources allow us to explore more in detail the taste for ancient and modern prints and the contents of the library, which was physically incorporated into the last room of the painting gallery and whose importance for the presence of art history publications, illustrated books and volumes of prints, was pointed out in the guides of contemporary writers and critics such as Giannantonio Moschini and Francesco Zanotto. This essay covers a lacuna in the studies on Venetian collecting during the period comprised between the fall of the Republic and the establishment of the Austrian government, providing a preliminary survey of what was until now a missing chapter in the reconstruction of the cultural ‘tradition’ that Girolamo Manfrin and his son Pietro tempted to obtain in the Venetian society of the time.

scholarly journals Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-84
Author(s):  
Jennifer OConnor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
Private Collections

The current exhibition at the Gardiner Museum, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, explores how eating, cooking, and dining were reimagined in England and France from the 1650s to the 1790s. Drawing from the Gardiner’s collection of ceramics as well as works on loan from other museums and private collections, curator Meredith Chiton, Curator Emerita at the Gardiner who specializes in “early European porcelain, dining, and social culture of the eighteenth century”, combines the functional with the curious and the historic with the contemporary.  

Tobie Matthew

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosamund Oates
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Book Collecting ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Made In

This chapter explores Matthew’s book collection, showing how the experience of developing libraries in Oxford and Bristol shaped his own book collecting. Rare Frankfurt book catalogues offer an invaluable insight into how Matthew purchased some of his books, while other sources point to a network of booksellers in York, London, and Oxford dealing in new and in second-hand books. This chapter also examines the guiding principles behind Matthew’s book collecting, seeing how these evolved over Matthew’s career. Matthew owned one of the largest private collections of books in early modern England, and this chapter explores contemporary ideas of what a library was and whether Matthew aspired to create one. The chapter concludes by examining the network of friends, colleagues, and patrons reflected in gifts to his library, asking how Matthew, and others, presented themselves through the marks of ownership they made in their books.

scholarly journals Annotated Copies of Early Editions of Johnson's Dictionary: A Preliminary Account

The Library ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
John Considine
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
New Words ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Noah Webster ◽  
Private Collections

Abstract Early responses to Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language included manuscript annotations, sometimes very extensive, in copies of the dictionary. This article surveys twenty-one copies of eighteenth-century editions of the dictionary with critical or informative annotations, bearing on etymology or usage, adding new words or senses, or improving the supply and referencing of quotations. Some of these copies are extant in institutional or private collections, and others are unlocated. The annotators include Johnson himself; members of his circle including Edmund Burke, Samuel Dyer, Edmond Malone, Hester Piozzi, and George Steevens; and other readers including Leigh Hunt, Horne Tooke, Noah Webster, and John Wilkes.

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