Provenance
Subtitle: twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990
By: Hermione Waterfield and J.C.H. King
Contributors: King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.)
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishers; University of Washington Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; [Seattle, Wash.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781903470978; 9781903470961
Subjects: Ethnic art; Art; Primitive Art; Biography; Collectors and collecting
Other titles: Twelve collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990; 12 Collectors of ethnographic art in England, 1760-1990
Description: Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered. The climax of the period of collecting from around 1880 to 1960 coincided with the maximum extent of Empire, when legions of explorers, missionaries, administrators, traders and military personnel brought back to Britain an inexhaustible quantity of exotic material. The sources for the collections included most of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, as well as tribal societies in Asia. --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sir Ashton Lever, 1729-1788; title: Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, 14 April 1827-4 May 1900; title: W.D. Webster, 11 May 1868-14 January 1913; title: William Ockelford Oldman, 24 August 1879-30 June 1949; title: Harry Geoffrey Beasley, 18 December 1881-24 February 1939; title: Captain A.W.F. Fuller, 29 March 1882-13 December 1961; title: William Ohly, 31 August 1883-22 July 1955; title: James Thomas Hooper, 1 September 1897-9 February 1971; title: James Keggie, 27 November 1901-30 July 1985; title: Herbert F. Rieser, 16 June 1902-15 July 1978; title: Kenneth Athol Webster, 17 December 1906-5 October 1967; title: Kenneth John Hewett, 7 July 1919-15 July 1994.