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British Museum Catalogues Of Coins
The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections. The series continued after his retirement, and continues to this day, with the collection increasingly being made available online. Series: Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum The series editor was Reginald Stuart Poole, and the authors/editors were Percy Gardner, Barclay Vincent Head, and Warwick Wroth. * Vol. 1: ''Italy'' - R.S. Poole (1873) * Vol. 2: ''Sicily'' – P. Gardner, B.V. Head, and R.S. Poole (1876) * Vol. 3: ''The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c.'' – P. Gardner and B.V. Head (1877) * Vol. 4: ''The Seleucid Kings of Syria'' – P. Gardner (1878) * Vol. 5: ''Macedonia, etc.'' – B.V. Head (1879) * V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Stuart Poole
Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane and his nephew Stanley Lane-Poole famous for their work in this field. His other uncle was Richard James Lane, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver. Life Born in London, Poole was the son of the Rev. Edward Poole, a well-known bibliophile. His parents became estranged during his early childhood, and his mother, Sophia Lane Poole, took her sons to Egypt to live with her brother, the Orientalist Edward William Lane. During their seven-year residence in Cairo from 1842 to 1849, Lane Poole wrote ''The Englishwoman in Egypt'', while her son was imbibing an early taste for Egyptian antiquities. In 1852 he became an assistant in the British Museum and was assigned to the Department of Coins and Medals, of which in 1870 he became ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. The British Museum was the first public national museum to cover all fields of knowledge. The museum was established in 1753, largely b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Gardner
Percy Gardner, (24 November 184617 July 1937) was an English classical archaeologist and numismatist. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford from 1887 to 1925. Early life Gardner was born in Hackney, Middlesex, United Kingdom on 24 November 1846 to Thomas Gardner and Ann Pearse. He was educated at the City of London School to the age of fifteen when he joined his father's stockbroker business. Having been unsuccessful in the field, in 1865 he matriculated into Christ's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts (BA) in the classics and moral sciences tripos in 1869. In 1870, he received the one year, University of Cambridge Whewell Scholarship in international law. Academic career From 1871 to 1887, Gardner was an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum. While there, he helped to write the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barclay Vincent Head
Barclay Vincent Head (1844–1914) was a British numismatist and keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.Barclay Head Dictionary of Art Historians, retrieved July 2014 Life Head started work at the British Museum in 1864. He rose to be keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the (1893 to 1906). He published over many years eight of the thirty book catalogue of the museum's Greek coins. He also published a standard work on the subject which went to a second edition.Honours and awards * 1907 - awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society * 1914 - elected Honorary Member of the Ac ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick William Wroth
Warwick William Wroth (24 August 1858 – 26 September 1911) was a numismatist and biographer. He was Senior Assistant Keeper of Coins and Medals in the British Museum and one of the original contributors to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'', with which he was associated almost until its completion. Life Wroth was born in Clerkenwell, the eldest son of the Rev. Warwick Reed Wroth, vicar of St. Philip's Clerkenwell. He attended the King's School, Canterbury, where he received a classical training, and joined the staff of the British Museum as an assistant in thDepartment of Coins and Medalsin July 1878. Publications Wroth contributed to the series of British Museum Catalogues of Greek Coins, and wrote articles for the ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', the ''Numismatic Chronicle'', '' The Athenaeum'' and ''The Classical Review''. He also wrote a series of biographies of numismatists, medallists, coin-engravers which were published in the ''Dictionary of National Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Mattingly
Harold Mattingly (24 December 1884 – 26 January 1964) was a British classical scholar, specialising in art history and numismatics. His interests included the history of Ancient Rome, Etruscan coins, Etruscan and Roman currency, and the Roman historian Tacitus. Early life and education Harold Mattingly was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, Sudbury, Suffolk on 24 December 1884. From 1896 to 1903, he was educated at The Leys School, an Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school in Cambridge. He then studied classics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he achieved a double first and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1907. Career In 1910 he joined the ''Department of Printed Books'' of the British Museum. In 1909 and 1914, showing his interest in Roman history, he published two books on the subject. During the First World War, worked for the Postal Censorship, Postal Censorship Bureau. At the close of hostilities he returned to his work at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Lane Poole
Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (18 December 1854 – 29 December 1931) was a British orientalist and archaeologist. Poole was from a famous orientalist family as his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, uncle Reginald Stuart Poole and great-uncle Edward William Lane were famous for their work in this field. His other great-uncle was Richard James Lane, a distinguished Victorian lithographer and engraver. Biography Born in London, England, from 1874 to 1892 he worked in the British Museum, and after that in Egypt researching on Egyptian archaeology. From 1897 to 1904 he had a chair as Professor of Arabic studies at Dublin University. He was married to Charlotte Bell Wilson from 1879 until her death in 1905. The couple had three sons and a daughter; his eldest son predeceased him while of his other two sons, Richard was a Royal Navy officer and Charles was a forester who did much work in Australia. Bibliography Books * Completed the First Book of the '' Arabic-English Lexicon'', le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Allan (numismatist)
John Allan, (8 August 1884 – 29 August 1955) was a British numismatist and scholar of Sanskrit. Allan was a noted numismatist and produced the first systematic study of the coins the Gupta Empire, which remains a standard reference today. Biography Allan was born in Bolton, East Lothian. His father, John Gray Allan, was the local schoolmaster. John had 2 sons John Gray Allan, (b:1915 Finchley, Middlesex) and James Law Allan (b:1918 Finchley, Middlesex). After studying at the universities of Edinburgh and Leipzig, Allan took up a position at the British Museum in 1907, eventually becoming the Keeper of thDepartment of Coins and Medalsin 1931. He was also a lecturer in Sanskrit at University College London, 1907–1917, then at the School of Oriental Studies, 1920–1922, and after his retirement from the British Museum, at the University of Edinburgh, 1949–1955. Allan was an active member of many learned societies. He was Secretary of the Royal Numismatic Society for almos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Wang
Helen Kay Wang (; ; born 1965) is an English sinologist and translator. She works as curator of East Asian Money at the British Museum in London. She has also published a number of literary translations from Chinese, including an award-winning translation of a Chinese children's book. Biography Wang has a BA in Chinese from SOAS University of London (1988, including a year at the Beijing Language Institute, 1984–1985). She has a PhD in archaeology from University College London, titled "Money on the Silk Road: the evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800", 2002. In 1991 Wang joined the British Museum staff as an assistant to Joe Cribb in the Asian section of the Department of Coins and Medals. She became Curator of East Asian Money in 1993. Her work mostly relates to the collections for which she is responsible, collection history and development of the field, in particular East Asian numismatics, Silk Road Numismatics, Sir Aurel Stein and his collections, and textiles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Errington
Elizabeth Errington is a specialist on the archaeology of Gandhara and the collections of Charles Masson, and a numismatist specialising in Asian coins. Biography Errington grew up in Potchefstroom in South Africa and gained a diploma at the Johannesburg School of Art in 1967. Subsequently she worked as a graphic designer in South Africa and London. Errington entered the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1977 and gained her B.A. Honours in Near and Middle East History and Archaeology in 1980. Errington then worked part-time on her PhD from 1980-1987 on 19th-century archaeology in Gandhara and Afghanistan entitled: ''The Western Discovery of the Art of Gandhara and the Finds of Jamalgarhi''. Errington worked for the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1988 preparing the catalogue of the Ghubayra Excavations, Iran, for publication. After her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Errington worked on the "Crossroads of Asia" exhibition and catalogue at the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliothèque Nationale De France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including books and manuscripts but also precious objects and artworks, are on display at the BnF Museum (formerly known as the ) on the Richelieu site. The National Library of France is a public establishment under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in France that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public. It produces a reference catalogue, cooperates with other national and international establishments, and participates in research programs. History The National Library of France traces its origin to the royal library founded at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien De Lacouperie
Albert Étienne Jean-Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (23 November 1844 – 11 October 1894) was a French oriental studies, orientalist, specialising in comparative philology. He published a number of books on early Asian and Middle-Eastern languages, initially in French and then in English. Lacouperie is best known for his studies of the Yi Ching and his argument, known as Sino-Babylonianism, that the important elements of ancient civilization in ancient China came from Mesopotamia and that there were resemblances between Chinese characters and Akkadian hieroglyphics. The American sinologist E. Bruce Brooks writes that Lacouperie "gained a sufficiently accurate view of the Spring and Autumn period that he realized, half a century before Qian Mu, Chyen Mu and Owen Lattimore, that the 'Chinese' territory of that period was in fact honeycombed with non-Sinitic peoples and even states." Brooks concluded that the "whole trend of Lacouperie's thought still provokes a collective all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
