Every man is naturally an antiquarian: Francis Grose and polite antiquities

Art History

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 520-530

  Bending, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 60950153682     PISSN: 01416790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8365.00342     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. This essay develops ideas first explored in my 'The true rust of the Barons' Wars: gardens, ruins, and the national landscape', in Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850, eds M. Myrone and L. Peltz, Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, pp. 83-93
2. See, for example, Myrone & Peltz, Producing the Past
3. For a fuller discussion of this see Sam Smiles, The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994, especially chap. 2
4. and Sam Smiles, Eye Witness and Visual Documentation in Britain, 1770-1830, Aldershot, and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000
5. Gerald Newman, The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History 1740-1830, London, 1987, pp. 111-12
6. Francis Grose, The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellany, intended to preserve and illustrate several valuable remains. Adorned with elegant sculptures, 4 vols, London, 1775-84, vol. 1, p. iii
7. Francis Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, new edn, London, 1773-87, vol. 1, p. iv
8. Richard Gough, Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain Applied to Illustrate the History of Families, Manners, Habits, and Arts, at the different periods from the Norman Conquest to the Seventeenth Century. With Introductory Observations. Part I. Containing the first four centuries, London, 1786, p. 7
9. John Frew, 'An aspect of the early Gothic Revival: the transformation of Medievalist research', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 43 (1980), pp. 174-85, p. 175
10. For the broader ramifications of a 'consumer culture', see Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1982, the phrase appears p. 23
11. Grose, Antiquities of England and Wales, op. cit. (note 12), supplement, vol. 2, pp. 209-12
12. Francis Grose, A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour, London, 1785
13. r R.A., London, 1778, Preface
14. Henry Boswell (pseud. Alexander Hogg), Historical Description of New and Elegant Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England and Wales: being a Grand Copper-Plate Repository of Elegance, Taste, and Entertainment ..., London, nd (1786)
15. Susan Stewart, On Longing: narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, the collection, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984; rpt Durham: Duke University Press, 1993, p. 143