ANN: Collecting, Travel, and the Museum in the Long Eighteenth Century (Online/University of Buckingham, 25 Feb 2021)

The University of Buckingham’s Humanities Research Institute is hosting a Research Day on Collecting, Travel, and the Museum in the Long Eighteenth Century

Online, 2.30 pm, 25 Feb 2021
Please register via: Seminars-HRI@buckingham.ac.uk

2:30 pm Research Day Session 1
Professor Arthur MacGregor
Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Victoria and Albert Museum;
Editor, Journal of the History of Collections

‘The Decline of the Cabinet of Curiosities: The Case of the East India Company Collections‘

Professor MacGregor discusses his most recent book, Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and his current project with the Victoria and Albert Museum on ‘The India Museum Revisited’: https://www.vam.ac. uk/research/projects/the-india-museum-revisited

3:15 pm Break

3:45 pm Research Day Session 2
Vivien Bird
PhD student, School of Humanities, University of Buckingham

‘Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824): Antiquity, Myth and Collecting in the Age of Enlightenment‘

16:30 Break

5 pm Research Day Session 3
Dr Adriano Aymonino
School of Humanities, University of Buckingham

‘Robert and James Adam: The Grand Tour Correspondence and Collections, 1754-63‘

This talk offers an introduction to an ongoing digital project, led by Dr Aymonino and Colin Thom (UCL), in collaboration with Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, University College London, and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London.
See also https://adamgrandtour.online/

Venue: online
Series: Research Days in the History of Art and the Classical Tradition