Recent Issue: Journal of the History of Collections

Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2024
(partial open access)

The art collections and museum of King William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849)
Ellinoor Bergvelt

Lucanian heritage across the world: the Spanish collections
Alain Duplouy and Mariana Silva Porto

Acquisition, duplicates and exchange: C. P. de Bosset’s collections from Cephalonia, Ithaca and Delphi in the British Museum
Amelia Dowler

Continuity and change in the British diplomatic service in the Levant: The ‘Levantine’ question and the lure of antiquities
Lucia Patrizio Gunning and Despina Vlami

Garden catalogues as sources for studying the collection and transmission of plants: Madeiran plants in the Ajuda botanical garden as a case-study
Sandra Mesquita and others

Creating the Bowes Museum: Collectors, dealers and auctions in mid-nineteenth-century Paris
Simon Spier

Collecting copper alloy portrait heads: A history of the acquisition and export of the Wúnmọníjẹ̀ heads in late colonial Nigeria
Tomos Llywelyn Evans

Reading between the lines: The Alba collection after the end of entailment (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
Whitney Dennis

Andrew Carnegie’s museum of evolution
Diana Strazdes

Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project
James Donaldson and others

Twentieth-century private collecting: Dr Philip Nelson’s acquisition of sculptures from the Kinnaird collection at Rossie Priory
Georgina Muskett

Rediscovering John Martin: Collecting the apocalypse in post-war Britain
Laia Anguix-Vilches

Book Reviews

Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the early modern academy
Paula Findlen

Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi
Jörg Zutter

Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and collector
Henrietta McBurney

Sarcophagi and other Reliefs, 4 vols., Part A.III of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A catalogue raisonné
Arnold Nesselrath

The Temple of Fame & Friendship: Portraits, music, and history in the C.P.E. Bach circle
Naomi J Barker

A Collection in Context: kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer
Jonathan Kagan

Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market: Connoisseurship, networking and control of the marketplace
Alan Crookham

Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project
Lynn Catterson

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints
Armin Kunz

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