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Inside Out: Representing the Romantic Museum

Egyptian Room in British Museum
Curators
Sophie Thomas
Rhys Juergensen
Erin McCurdy
Date Published:
March 2024
Description

This exhibition examines how museum spaces were conceptualized and visually represented in two-dimensional media forms, drawing examples principally from metropolitan London. Many of the museums of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century no longer exist. However, prints and paintings, often reproduced in gallery guides, periodicals, and ephemera, are valuable sources of information about the objects that they contained: from oddities and marvels to natural history specimens and revered artworks. Such images also document the arrangement of objects and the display strategies employed by collectors and museums, as well as the visual idioms—and aesthetic categories—they used to capture and ‘frame’ their interiors.

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Sir Ashton Lever’s Holophusicon

Image Item
Watercolor of the Leverian Museum
Description

This watercolor, copied ca. 1835 from Sarah Stone’s original—made on site in 1786—depicts Sir Ashton Lever’s museum, or “Holophusicon.” Making effective use of one-point perspective, the drawing depicts the long series of rooms comprising the upper floor of the museum.

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Rhys Juergensen

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3770. Robert Southey to [Samuel Holworthy], [24 December] 1821

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Address: To/ The xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Croxall Parsonage/ near/ Lichfield
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
MS: University of Kentucky Library. AL; 3p. (c).
Unpublished.
Note on correspondent: Identified by the address – Holworthy was Vicar of St John
the Baptist, Croxall, 1809–1839 – and by the letter’s content.

3700. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 July 1821

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Address: To/ G. C. Bedford Esqre/ Exchequer/ Westminster
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
Postmark: [partial] E/ 9 JY/ 1821
Endorsements: 6. July 1821/ £50 –
MS: Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Lett. c. 26. ALS; 3p.
Unpublished.

3228. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 January 1819

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3228. Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1 January 1819

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Communicating the Outside: Nature, the Outside, and Romanticism

Romanticism and Political Ecology

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Amanda Jo Goldstein

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Joseph Albernaz

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