Dodos and Dark Lanterns: Highlights of Ashmolean History
Language: English
Published by Ashmolean Museum, 2013
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- Title
- Dodos and Dark Lanterns: Highlights of Ashmolean History
- Author
- David A. Berry
- Publisher
- Ashmolean Museum
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1854442813
- ISBN 13
- 9781854442819
- Tells the story of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, the world's first university museum, dating from the late 1600s
- Not your traditional approach to a museum history, but told through anecdotes about people famous and not-so and the objects they treasured
- It all started with the bequest of a cabinet of curios called "The Ark"
Contents: Map of Oxford; Introduction; Tradescant's Orchard; Powhatan's Mantle; Præmia Honoraria; Statutes Order & Rules; Bottle of Nitre; Clypeus ploti; Oxford Dodo; Mourning Dress; Megalosaurus bucklandi; Draft Labels; Jewelled Disc Brooch; Guy Fawkes' Lantern; Statue of Athena; Study of Heads and Hands; Chester Seal; Hill House Album; Medieval Mug; Head of Louisa; Jane Russell; Ritual Food Vessel; Statue of the Buddha.
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