Visions of antiquity
Subtitle: the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007
By: edited by Susan Pearce.
Contributors: Pearce, Susan M.; Society of Antiquaries of London.
Series: Archaeologia -- v. 111
Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of London
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780854312870
Subjects: Society of Antiquaries of London.; Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Visions of antiquity : introduction / by Susan Pearce; value: Images of the antiquary in seventeenth-century England / by Daniel Woolf; value: Forming an identity : the early Society and its context, 1707-51 / by Arthur MacGregor; value: The incorporated Society and its public role / by Rosemary Sweet; value: The Society of Antiquaries and the graphic arts : George Vertue and his legacy / by Martin Myrone; value: Art and antiquity in the long nineteenth century / by Sam Smiles; value: Antiquaries and the interpretation of ancient objects, 1770-1820 / by Susan Pearce; value: The Society, its Council, the membership and publications, 1820-50 / by Richard Hingley; value: The development of the library / by Bernard Nurse; value: Prehistory in the nineteenth century / by C. Stephen Briggs; value: Delineating objects : nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and the project of archaeology / by Christopher Evans; value: Fabric, form and function : the Society and "the restoration question" / by Rick Turner; value: Breathing the future : the Antiquaries and conservation of the landscape, 1850-1950 / by Richard Morris; value: The grand excavation projects of the twentieth century / by Michael Fulford; value: Changing roles and agendas : the Society of Antiquaries and the professionalization of archaeology, 1950-2000 / by Graeme Barker; value: A tree with many branches : the fellowship at the start of the twenty-first century / by David Gaimster; value: Society of Antiquaries? / by Eric Fernie.