Le 15 avril 2016 aura lieu à Londres (Senate House Library) une journée d’études sur les collections anciennes : “Collectors, Collections and Collecting Conference”. Le colloque traite notamment plusieurs collectionneurs importants de manuscrits : Thomas Phillipps, Sidney Cockerell, Alfred Chester Beatty, Henry Yates Thompson, Henry Wellcome, Hans Sloane …
Programme :
09:45 – 10:15 Accueil
10:15 – 10:30 Introduction
10:30 – 11:30 : Plenary lecture
- Stella Panayotova (The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge): Sydney Cockerell: A Bibliophile Director-Collector
11:30 – 11:45 Pause
11:45 – 13:00 Boundless Collecting: The Public Fate of the Private Collection
- Frances Larson: From the Miniature to the Gigantic: Making Sense of Henry Wellcome and his collection
- Alice Marples: Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: the changing uses of Sloane’s collection
13:00 – 14:00 Déjeuner
14:00 – 15:30 Collecting Quality for Prosperity
- Anthony James West (IES, SAS):The Shakespeare First Folio: The ‘Must Have’ Book
- Laura Cleaver (Trinity College Dublin): Mr and Mrs Alfred Chester Beatty, Mr and Mrs Henry Yates Thompson and Judgments about the Quality of Western Manuscripts, c. 1916-1941
- Karen Attar (Senate House Library): Mummifying Collections: An Institutional Overview
15:30 – 15:45 Pause
15:45 – 17:15 ‘For what purpose do they spend?’ Ruskin and his legacy
- Stephen Wildman (University of Central Lancaster): A wonderful range of mind: the Ruskin collection
- Cynthia Johnston (IES, SAS, London) : The Post-Industrial Collector: The books and coins of Robert Edward Hart, rope-maker of Blackburn, Lancashire
- Danielle Magnusson (Trinity College Dublin): American Industrialist Collectors and Collections
17:15 – 18:00 Final Words
- Toby Burrows (King’s College London): Beyond “Vello-mania”: a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps
18:00 – 19:00 Pot
Lieu : Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
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