Research Catalog

Title

Sciences of antiquity : romantic antiquarianism, natural history, and knowledge work / Noah Heringman.

Author

Heringman, Noah.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xii, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past. Seeking a formal language to display these new findings, Romantic-era plate books presented a wide array of objects as ancient relics. This proliferation of antiquities, a product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism, provided new material for the formation of archaeology, geology, anthropology, and other modern disciplines. This title traces the production of five scholarly plate books on subjects of major literary and scientific interest at the time: South Pacific voyaging, Mount Vesuvius, ancient Greek vases, monuments in English cathedrals, and the geology of southeast England. Focusing on illustrators, fieldworkers, and ghostwriters associated with this type of scholarly publication, Heringman explores how the expertise acquired by these largely self-educated intellectuals precipitated a major shift in the way research was done - from patronage to professionalism.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Uniform Title

Classical presences.

Subject

• Illustrated books > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Scientific illustration > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Natural history > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-333) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Knowledge Work and the Proliferation of Antiquities ; NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITY -- 1. Beyond Patronage : Knowledge, Work, Professional Ambition, and the Competing Narratives of the Endeavour Voyage -- 2. Campi Phlegraei and the Neapolitan Pursuit of 'Most Remote Antiquity' ; GREEK VASES AND DEEP TIME IN NAPLES -- 3. Baron d'Hancarville, Sir William Hamilton, and the Collaborative Production of Antiquities -- 4. The Natural History of Art: Customs and Manners in The Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities -- 5. 'The History, Written by Themselves' : Ancient Religion, Deep Time, and Embedded History ; ENGLAND'S RUINS -- Interlude : Classical to Gothic -- 6. Antiquarianism and the Science of Preservation : Jacob Schnebbelie, Richard Gough, and Gothic Antiquity -- 7. 'The Whole of This Coast is Composed of Ruins' : Thomas Webster's Fieldwork on the Isle of Wight.

Call Number

JFE 13-6090

ISBN

• 9780199556915
• 0199556911

OCLC

794036033

Author

Heringman, Noah.

Title

Sciences of antiquity : romantic antiquarianism, natural history, and knowledge work / Noah Heringman.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Classical presences

Classical presences.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-333) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-6090