New evidence for the contents of the Leverian museum

Journal of the History of Collections

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-186

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EID: 33750867670     PISSN: 09546650     EISSN: 14778564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/8.2.167     Document Type: Review

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1. 1805 version, quoted in Richard D. Altick, The Shows of London (Cambridge and London, 1978), p. 33
2. This information and the following quotes are taken from W. J. Smith, 'Sir Ashton Lever of Alkrington, and his museum, 1729-1788', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 72 (1962), pp. 61-92
3. The main earlier reference is W. H. Mullens 'Some museums of old London. 1 The Leverian Museum', Museums Journal 15 (1915), pp. 123-9, 162-72
4. For the zoological collections from Cook's voyages see P. J. Whitehead, 'Zoological specimens from Captain Cook's voyages', Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5(3) (1969), pp. 161-201
5. See Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters. History of European Reactions to Indian Art (Oxford, 1977), pp. 142-3, which reproduces an engraving from A
6. Dalrymple, 'Account of a curious pagoda near Bombay', Archaeologia (1785), p. 323. The sale catalogue included, for instance, Lot 4136: 'Two East Indian bronze figures', and then in 'Last day but one... 11. A large and extremely curious female head, sculptured in basaltic stone, from the celebrated cave of Elephanta, near Bombay
7. This is inscribed 'Sr A L' in script characters, star ornament above and below, and on the reverse: 'Holophusicon' ornament above and below. See W. J. Davis and A. W. Waters, Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1922; reprinted 1974), no. 221
8. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (7 April 1785), p. 1
9. See C. L. Estrange Ewen, Lotteries and Sweepstakes (London, 1932), pp. 281-96
10. and John Ashton, A History of English Lotteries (London, 1893), pp. 106-7
11. Charles Howard, later 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746-1815)
12. London Chronicle for 1784 (1-30 July), p. 12
13. Act of Parliament Vicesimo Quarto, Cap. xxii, 1784. An Act for enabling Sir Ashton Lever to dispose of this Museum, as now exhibited at Leicester House, by way of chance, pp. 309-26
14. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (9 January 1786), p. 1
15. Lady Ellenor Fenn [Mrs Lovechild], A Short History of Qudrupeds, extracted from works of credit, designed as an introduction to the study of that branch of natural history and as a pocket companion to those who visit the Leverian Museum (London, 1796)
16. and A Short History of Insects, (extracted from works of credit), designed as an introduction to the study of that branch of natural history and as a pocket companion to those who visit the Leverian Museum (Norwich, 1797)
17. This was prepared by Edward Donovan (1768-1837), see Catalogue of the Leverian Museum ... The sale of the entire collection (by Messrs King and Lochee) will commence on Monday, the 5th May, 1806, at twelve o'clock, in the building now occupied by the museum (London, 1806)
18. Altick, Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, op. cit. (note 1), p. 32
19. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (6 March 1787), p. 1
20. William Hone, The Every-day Book... (London, 1826-7), II, p. 494
21. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (19 February 1788), p. 1
22. The wife of Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809), chief justice of Bengal
23. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (25 February 1790), p. 1
24. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (27 November 1794), p. 1
25. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (9 June 1789), p. 1
26. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (3 March 1791), p. 1
27. Morning Post and Fashionable World (29 June 1794), p. 1
28. The World (25 June 1790), p. 1
29. See Barry M. Gough, Distant Dominion (Vancouver and London, 1980), pp. 100-15
30. M. Willson Disher, Greatest Show on Earth (London, 1937), pp. 59-61
31. For instance one of two examples of the extinct white galinule, Porphyrio albus, which was bought for the Imperial Collection in Vienna at the 1806 Leverian sale, and is now said to be the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Other specimens, particularly reptiles, survive in the Natural History Museum, London, while some mammals are or were in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. See J. H. Calaby, 'The natural history of drawings' in Bernard Smith and Alwyne Wheeler (eds), The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian drawings (New Haven and London, 1988), pp. 140-57
32. Frank Homer, The French Reconnaissance. Baudin in Australia 1801-3 (Melbourne, 1987), p. 357
33. There are few accounts of her life and work, but see Sotheby's Topographical Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, London 2 November 1988, pp. 46-51
34. Morning Post and Daily Advertiser (19 January 1784), p. 1
35. Roland W. Force and Maryanne Force, Art and artefacts of the 18th century (Honolulu, 1968)
36. See Adrienne L. Kaeppler '"Artificial Curiosities" being an exposition of native manufactures collected on the three Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N. at the Bernice Pauhi Bishop Museum January 18, 1978-August 31, 1978 on the occasion of the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook - January 18 1778'
37. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publications 65 (Honolulu, 1978), pp. 12-13
38. See John Latham, A General Synopsis of Birds (London, 1781-5)
39. See A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Ceramics 1, Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware (London, 1976), pp. 22-8, 218-23
40. See Axel von Saldern, German Enamelled Glass (New York, 1965), pp. 51-67. Information from Rüdiger Joppien, letter of 6 March 1993
41. Folios 6-23. See J. C. H. King, 'Woodlands art as depicted by Sarah Stone in the collection of Sir Ashton Lever', American Indian Art Magazine 18(2) (1991), pp. 35-45
42. In 1786 Sophie de la Roche had noted the '... musical instruments of all nations, ancient and modern ...' Quoted in Altick, American Indian Art Magazine, op. cit. (note 1), p. 32
43. John Baily and Alastair Dick, 'Sārindā', The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (London, 1984), III, pp. 297-8
44. Alastair Dick, Christian Poché et al., 'Rabāb', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), III, pp. 177-83
45. Michel Domenichini-Ramiaramana, 'Valiha', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), III, pp. 705-6
46. Alaistair Dick et al., 'Dcombining dot belowhol' and 'Dcombining dot belowholak', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), I, pp. 560-3
47. Alastair Dick and Carol M. Babiracki, 'Nagāṙā', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), II, pp. 739-40
48. Alan R. Thrasher, 'Yunluo', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), III, p. 888
49. Thrasher, 'Sheng' in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), III, pp. 371-2
50. Thrasher, 'Di' in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), I, pp. 563-5
51. See A. C. Moule, 'Chinese musical instruments', Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39 (1908), pp. 1-160
52. Moule, The New Grove, op. cit. (note 100), p. 101
53. Alan R. Thrasher, 'Erhu', in The New Grove (op. cit., note 92), I, p. 717