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The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum
Arthur Macgregor
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Description for The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum
Hardback. Reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House and developed it over the following century. In this book, the enormous range of surviving objects and specimens is illustrated by photographs and has been catalogued by scholars in the respective fields. Editor(s): MacGregor, Arthur. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 496 pages, 200 color + 100 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; ACQ; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 329 x 50. Weight in Grams: 3558.
This lavishly produced volume presents a survey and analysis of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities established around 1750 by the Cobbe family in Ireland and added to over a period of 100 years. Although such collections were common in British country houses during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Cobbe museum, still largely intact and housed in its original cabinets, now forms a unique survivor of this type of private collection from the Age of Enlightenment.
A detailed catalogue of the objects and specimens is accompanied by beautiful, specially commissioned photographs that showcase the cabinet’s component elements. Reproductions of portraits ... Read more
This lavishly produced volume presents a survey and analysis of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities established around 1750 by the Cobbe family in Ireland and added to over a period of 100 years. Although such collections were common in British country houses during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Cobbe museum, still largely intact and housed in its original cabinets, now forms a unique survivor of this type of private collection from the Age of Enlightenment.
A detailed catalogue of the objects and specimens is accompanied by beautiful, specially commissioned photographs that showcase the cabinet’s component elements. Reproductions of portraits ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300204353
SKU
V9780300204353
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Ref
99-50
About Arthur Macgregor
Arthur MacGregor is a former senior assistant keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Reviews for The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum
“The singularity of the book lies in the weight and breadth of specialist scholarship which has been marshalled”—Dora Thornton, Art Newspaper
Dora Thornton
Art Newspaper
Dora Thornton
Art Newspaper