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Gem Engraving in Britain from Antiquity to the Present: with a catalogue of the British engraved gems in The State Hermitage Museum
Julia Kagan
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Dr. Julia Kagan, Curator of post-Classical engraved gems in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to the study of gem-engraving in Britain, in part inspired by the English Brown brothers who carved gems for Catherine the Great during the 18th century. The many articles she published in the 1960s and 1970s covering various aspects of the history of glyptics in Great Britain and the formation of the Hermitage's collection of British gems, an earlier dissertation which originally formed the basis of this book, and the attached catalogue, comprise a suitable tribute to the immense richness and diversity of gem engraving in Britain from Antiquity to the present. This comprehensive study includes a catalogue of the British engraved gems in The State Hermitage Museum, appendices of archive documents, and a table of British engravers.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Contents
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Foreword and acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I. From antiquity to the enlightenment
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1. The roots
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2. Portrait gems of the Tudor period
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3. Cameo insignia and intaglio seals
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4. The first collections
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5. Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Simon and others
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Part II. Into a new era
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6. Tendencies in a time of transition
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7. Lorenz Natter in England. The ‘Museum Britannicum’
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8. James Tassie’s Cabinet of Casts
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9. Josiah Wedgwood’s ‘cameos’
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10. The boom years
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11. The flourishing of a national school
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12. Crisis in the national school.The last masters. Late collections
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Conclusion. The end of the road
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Afterword
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Catalogue of the British engraved gems inThe State Hermitage Museum
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Part I. 14th to 17th centuries
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Part II. 18th to 20th centuries
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Part III. Charles and William Brown
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Part IV. Addenda: Gems discoveredor attributed shortly before publication
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Appendices
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Appendix I
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Appendix II
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Table of British gem engravers and imitators
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British gem engravers and imitators 14th - 21st centuries
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2010
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407305578 (paperback)
- 9781407321844 (ebook)
BAR Number: B514