The Arundel and Pomfret marbles in Oxford
By: Michael Vickers.
Series: Ashmolean handbooks
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781854442086; 9781854442079
Subjects: Arundel, Thomas Howard, -- Earl of, -- 1585-1646 -- Art collections.; Marble sculpture, Classical -- Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain.
Description: The largest surviving portion of the first major collection of Classic antiquities in Britain - the sculpture and inscriptions collected by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel for his London house and garden - is in the Antiquities Department of the Ashmolean Museum. This book tracks their eventful history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-90).