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These cabinets display layers of preserved butterflies, insects and birds, as well as painted panels by some of Australia's best early colonial painters. Tells the story of the chests and reveals much about the fledgling colony, the vision of Governor Macquarie and the natural history of colonial Australia.

Bibliotheca Elegantissima Et Selecta. A Catalogue of a ... Collection of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books; Chiefly in Early English Literature ... in ... Bindings by Mr. F. Bedford and ... Other Binders. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing a Selection of Rare and Curious Books in Early English Literature from the Libraries of ... John Mitford, and S.W. Singer, Esq. ... and an Assemblage of ... Illuminated Missals, Horae, &c., on Vellum ...

Joseph Lilly

Published: 1862

Total Pages: 142


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Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
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