Item Number: 128888 Title: The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Countryhouse Museum Author: MacGregor, Arthur Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780300204353 Description: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2015. 28cm., hardcover, 480pp., 200 color, 100 b&w illus. Summary: This beautiful book reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House (Co. Dublin) and developed it over the following century. Now housed at Hatchlands Park (Surrey), it has changed so little since 1850 that it offers a virtually unique time-capsule of a private cabinet from the period of the Enlightenment, once common in country houses throughout Britain but now all but lost to view. The enormous range of surviving objects and specimens (including ethnographic specimens, antiquities, natural history, geology) is illustrated by specially commissioned photography and catalogued by scholars in the respective fields, who discuss also the place of the cabinet of curiosities in Enlightenment society, the history of the Cobbe family and the uniquely surviving display cabinets, in which the collection is still displayed. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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