Casts and cast-offs

The origins of the Museum of Classical Archaeology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11618094
AutoresMary Beard (Newham College, autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume39
Páginas1-29
Data de publicação1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoProceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0068-6735 • E-ISSN: 2053-5899
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s006867350000170x
OpenAlexW1979351403
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas6

‘ It's my PARTY... ;’ The Cambridge Museum of Classical and General Archaeology opened on 6 May 1884 with – what else? – a PARTY. Distinguished guests turned out, the University meeting the Aristocracy, Arts and Politics: H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor of Wales (the Queen's son, then an undergraduate), Sir Frederick Leighton (President of the Royal Academy), the painters Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward Poynter, the American Ambassador, Sir Frederick Burton (Director of the National Gallery), George Scharf (Director of the National Portrait Gallery), and other assorted dignitaries rubbing shoulders and sharing the fun with Richard Jebb (Regius Professor of Greek), E. B. ( Primitive Culture ) Tylor, S. H. Butcher (of Butcher and Lang's Odyssey ), as well as (in the usual formula) ‘the Heads of Colleges, Doctors and Professors, the officers of the University’ ... and their ‘ladies’. ‘Luncheon’ was taken in the hall of Gonville and Caius College at one o'clock. A great feast, no doubt, but a bit of a sprint. By two o'clock the assembled company had already finished the pudding and was proceeding to the lecture room of the new museum in Little St Mary's Lane

Aristocracy (class · Butcher · Chapel · George (robot · Portrait · Queen (butterfly · Statue · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography