Chance and certitude
Pitt Rivers and his first collection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14904640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Petch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257-266 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Collections (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-6650 • E-ISSN: 1477-8564 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jhc/fhl028 |
| OpenAlex | W2153778730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) amassed his first collection between the 1850s and 1884 when he donated the collection to found the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers obtained most of the items in this collection from auction rooms, dealers, institutions and other individuals. This paper considers his relationships with the sources that helped form the collection of some 20,000 artefacts. In examining this issue, it draws attention to the fact that his certitude when writing about his collection was in fact based upon the happenstance and coincidences of accidental collecting.
Accidental · Art · Art history · Data collection · Social science · Sociology · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
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