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British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Museums book cover

1st Edition

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century Volume III: Museums

Edited By Kathleen L. Sheppard Copyright 2026
by Routledge

The earliest collections of Egyptian artifacts were those pieces taken by the Roman empire. There are more Egyptian obelisks in Rome today than there are left in Egypt. In the nineteenth century, British collections were built by the same people whose work comprises volume two. They began as private collections, meant as status symbols usually for the wealthy, or for those who wished to show... Read more

Volume III: Museums

General Introduction

Volume III Introduction

 

Part 1. Collectors and Collecting   

1. Henry Abbott, Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the property of Henry Abbott, MD, no exhibiting at the Stuyvestant Institute, New York (New York: J. W. Harrison, 1854), pp. i–viii, 5–16.

2. Alexander Henry Rhind, ‘How the Demand for Egyptian Relics has been Supplied…’ Thebes: Its Tombs and their Tenants, ancient and present, including a record of excavations in the Necropolis (London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1862), pp. 242–74.

3. Robert J. A. Hay and Joseph Bonomi, Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Belonging to the Late Robert Hay, Esq., of Linplum (London: Thomson & Pinder, 1869), pp. 110–23.

 

Part 2. Private Collections  

4. Thomas Hope, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration Executed from Designs (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), pp. 1–18, 26–7.

5. William John Bankes, Geometrical Elevation of an Obelisk from the Island of Philae (London: John Murray, 1821).

6. Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, A history of Egyptian mummies :and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c. (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834), pp. 227–30.

 

Part 3. Private to Public

7. William Bullock, A Companion To The Liverpool Museum, Containing A Brief Description Of Upwards Of Four Thousand Of Its Natural & Foreign Curiosities, Antiquities & Productions Of The Fine Arts. Seventh Edition (Liverpool: Liverpool Museum, 1809), pp. ii–vii, 65–8.

8. Sir John Soane, Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane (London: Levey, Robson, and Franklyn, 1835), pp. 32–5 and plates.

9. ‘A Reverie at the Crystal Palace,’ Punch Magazine Vol 26 (17 June 1854), pp. 250–1.

10. Erasmus Wilson, Cleopatra's Needle: With Brief Notes on Egypt and Egyptian Obelisks (London: Brain & Co, 1878), pp. v–x, 10–14, 17–9, 76–9, 89–90, 128–31, 167–8, 182–4.

11. Greville John Chester, Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities in the Ashmolean (Oxford: Parker and Co, 1881), pp. iii–viii, 93–100.

12. Amelia Edwards, ‘The Provincial and Private Collections of Egyptian Antiquities in Great Britain,’ Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la philologie et a l'archeologie egyptienne et assyriennes, 10: 3-4 (1888), pp. 121–133.

13. Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part I (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898), pp. v–vii, xi–xvi.

 

Part 4. National Museums

14. Samuel Birch, ‘Description of an Egyptian tomb Now preserved in the British Museum,’ Archaeologia Vol XXIX (1841), pp. 111–26.

15. William Mason, A Guide to the British Museum; Fully Descriptive of all the Most interesting Natural Curiosities, Works of Art, Greek and Roman Sculptures, Egyptian Antiquities, and other objects, worthy the attention of visitors in General (London: William Mason, 1844).

16. Charles Knight (ed.), London Volume VI (London: Henry Bohn, 1851), pp. 161–76.

17. Charles Gatty, Catalogue of the Mayer Collection, Part I. The Egyptian Babylonian, and Assyrian Antiquities. Second, revised edition (London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1879), pp. iii–xii, 23–32.

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Kathleen L. Sheppard is Professor of history in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T, USA. She is also the Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.

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