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| ABC OF EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS [Jaromir Malek] Developed from the author's talks for children, describing the origin and use of hieroglyphs, how texts were written on papyrus by scribes or inscribed on statues and monuments and how they were finally deciphered in the 19th century. { 48pp, November 1994; PB, £4.95, 1854440527:9781854440525 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ALFRED JEWEL : & Other Late Anglo-Saxon Decorated Metalwork [David Hinton] The Alfred Jewel is probably the single most famous archaeological object in England. From the Anglo-Saxon period, the great treasure found in the seventh-century ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, is as well-known, but as a collection rather than for any individual object in it. But the distinctive nature of the Jewel with its tantalizing inscription that may refer to King Alfred (871-99), the only English king to be called 'the Great' has a fascination that nothing else can rival. The Jewel has received much attention from scholars since its discovery in 1693, and continues to be discussed in work on the Anglo-Saxon period. In this handbook, recent ideas are reviewed and the significance of new discoveries evaluated, along with pictures and descriptions of other objects relevant to the study of the Jewel. The Handbook focuses on the collections in the Ashmolean that date to the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries AD, but also illustrates objects in other museums. { 96pp, 145x210mm, January 2008; HB, £11.95, 1854442295:9781854442291 / PB, £7.95, 1854442309:9781854442307 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANCIENT EGYPT [P R S Moorey] The Egyptians are one of the most fascinating among the peoples of the ancient world. They are also in many ways the most easily misunderstood. Ancient Egypt seeks to explain their distinctive culture in its historical context. Covering the essential aspects of Egyptian prehistory and history, life and literature, religion and art, and including a concise bibliography. { 58pp, January 1988; PB, £7.95, 0907849768:9780907849766 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANCIENT EGYPT & NUBIA [Helen Whitehouse] The treasures from Ancient Egypt to be found inside the Ashmolean Museum are second only, outside Egypt, to those in the British Museum. From vases to weapons, and ‘serpent game’ boards to decorated ostrich eggs, this book showcases the richness and diversity of the Museum’s Egyptian collection in beautiful full-colour images with informative captions. The introduction looks at the formation of the Museum’s collection within the context of Egyptology as an emerging discipline full of colourful characters. The Egyptians are one of the most fascinating among the peoples of the ancient world and the Ashmolean’s collection depicts their distinctive culture, its history, religion and art as well as everyday routines and traditions. { 96pp, 194x267mm, November 2008; PB, £14.95, 1854442023:9781854442024 / HB, £19.95, 1854442015:9781854442017 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANCIENT GREEK POTTERY [Michael Vickers] This text showcases a selection of vessels from the Ashmolean's collection. Most of the pots were made in Corinth or Athens and exported in antiquity to Italy and Sicily, where they served as grave-offerings. { March 1999; PB, £7.95, 1854441140:9781854441140 / HB, £11.95, 1854441159:9781854441157 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANCIENT NEAR EAST [Roger Moorey] Why have archaeologists been interested in the ancient Near East for over 150 years? What did it contribute to the world in which we live? To what extent is the Old Testament representative of the literature and religious ideas of the ancient Near East? { 56pp, January 1987; PB, £7.95, 090784958X:9780907849582 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TERRACOTTAS : with a Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [P R S Moorey] P R S Moorey FBA FSA (1937-2004) was one of the finest scholars of his generation. Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University from 1983 to 2002, Roger Moorey laid the groundwork for much of our understanding of the bronzes, terracottas and faience of the Ancient Near East. This study and accompanying catalogue of the Ancient Near Eastern terracottas in the Ashmolean's collection, completed in 2004, is the last of Roger Moorey's many publications. This limited printed edition is published to make the first Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture, held in Oxford on his birthday, 30 May 2005. { 281pp, 210x295mm, May 2005; PB, £15.00, 1854442139:9781854442130 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ANTIQUITIES FROM EUROPE & THE NEAR EAST : In the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green [Arthur MacGregor (ed)] The objects described range in date from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age, including items from the Nordic region; Central and Western Europe -- including Iberia and the British Isles -- Italy and the Near East. { 142pp, January 1987; PB, £16.95, 0907849709:9780907849704 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ARTHUR EVANS, KNOSSOS & THE PRIEST-KING [S Sherratt] The year 2000 marks the centenary of the start of excavations at the site of Knossos on Crete, the centre of a Bronze Age civilisation which its excavator, Arthur Evans, called 'Minoan' after King Minos of Greek legend. The palace which he uncovered there was originally decorated with frescoed wall paintings, some of them showing figured scenes, which mostly survived only in a fragmentary and incomplete state. One of the most striking fresco images, and one which particularly engaged Evans's imagination, is the controversial figure of the Priest-King, whom Evans regarded as a portrayal of one of the priestly rulers of Knossos. This booklet gives an account of the history of its discovery, its re-creation and the important part it played in Evans's vision of Knossos. { 24pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £4.95, 1854441426:9781854441423 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ARUNDEL & POMFRET MARBLES IN OXFORD [Michael Vickers] The largest surviving portion of the first major collection of Classical antiquities in Britain -- the sculptures and inscriptions collected in the early 17th century by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel for his London house and garden -- is in the Antiquities Department of the Ashmolean Museum. This handbook tracks their eventful history before they came to rest in Oxford. { 96pp, 155x215mm, January 2007; PB, £7.95, 1854442074:9781854442079 / HB, £11.95, 1854442082:9781854442086 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM : A History of the Museum & Its' Collections [Arthur MacGregor] The Ashmolean Museum, the oldest public museum in Britain, houses the University of Oxford's unrivalled collection of art and antiquities from Europe, Central Asia and the Far East. Three centuries and more of unbroken history render the Ashmolean one of the most venerable institutions of its' kind in the world. When, in 1683, Elias Ashmole endowed the University of Oxford with the already famous Tradescant collection, many of the exhibits had already been on display for fifty years, extending the origins of the collection to the very threshold of the Stuart era. This book traces the eventful history of the Ashmolean and its collections from its origin as cabinet of curiosities, to proto-scientific institution at the turn of the eighteenth century and to dusty irrelevance at the opening of the nineteenth; the ensuing century saw the Museum's fortunes rise, fall and rise again to culminate in its' refounding as the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology as the result of the tireless energy of Sir Arthur Evans (Keeper 1884-1908) and powerful patrons such as Charles Drury Fortnum. { 80pp, 150x210mm, September 2001; PB, £7.95, 1854441485:9781854441485 / HB, £11.95, 1854441493:9781854441492 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM : Complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings [Catherine Casley et al (eds)] For the first time ever, all paintings in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum have been brought together in one volume. Every picture is illustrated and almost all are represented in colour. Biographies of all known artists in the collection are also included, making this catalogue an invaluable reference work for specialist libraries, collectors and general readers alike. { 336pp, 250x340mm, October 2004; PB, £35.00, 1854441884:9781854441881 / HB, £60.00, 1854441876:9781854441874 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ADDRESS BOOK Features twelve pages of colour illustrations depicting letters and letter-writing from different cultures across the centuries, from Ancient Egypt to the present day. { 80pp, 110x155mm, July 1998; HB, £6.95, 1854440829:9781854440822 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| BATTLE OF PAVIA [Timothy Wilson (ed)] The Battle of Pavia in 1525, in which Francis I, King of France, was defeated and captured, has tremendous impact throughout; it has been described as 'marking the end of the Middle Ages'. The contemporary panel painting which formed part of the foundation collection of the Ashomelan Museum in 1638 is one of the most dramatic and detailed images of Renaissance warfare. This book tells the story of the battle and of the making of this famous painting. { 24pp, 200x200mm, May 2003; PB, £3.95, 1854441868:9781854441867 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| BEAUTIES FOR THE FOUR SEASONS [Mitsuko Watanbe] Japanese beautiful women, decorative kimono and flowers of the seasons -- 'Beauties for the Four Seasons' comprises Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e) from the Ashmolean Museum. Works by classical artists including Harunobu, Utamaro, Toyokuni and Eishi show beauties related to the seasons, over more than a hundred years. { 81pp, 175x245mm, September 2005; PB, £12.95, 1854442112:9781854442116 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| BRIDGING EAST & WEST : Japanese Ceramics from the Ko-zan Studio [Kathleen Emerson-Dell] The first exhibition outside Japan to feature the the ceramics of the Makuzo studio, founded by Miyagawa Ko-zan (1842-1916) { 64pp, May 1995; PB, £16.95, 0911886397:9780911886399 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| BRITISH & CONTINENTAL GOLD & SILVER IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM : 3-Volume Set [Tim Schroder] The collection of British silver at the Ashmolean Museum has all, with one notable exception (a tankard of 1574 given in 1790) been acquired since shortly after World War 2. In relation to other major museum collections, therefore, it is young. Yet amounting to over 450 objects, many of which are of spectacular quality and rarity, it is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world, equalled only for the 'golden age' of English silver by the V&A in London and the museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The collection has never been fully catalogued and this will be the first time a complete catalogue has been published. { 220x280mm, January 2009; PB, £350.00, 1854442201:9781854442208 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| BUYID COINAGE : A Die Corpus (322-445AH) [Luke Treadwell] This is a catalogue of medieval Iraqi and Iranian coinage, struck within the 10th-11th centuries AD. The Buyid dynasty ruled in Baghdad, Western Iraq and central Iran for over 100 years (c322-c440 AH). Their coinage is of interest because it is one of the earliest and most plentiful regional coinages of the pre-modern Islamic world. It displays a variety of fabric, morphology and inscriptional content that is exceptional. This catalogue draws on all the major public collections of Islamic coinage in the western world, as well as several private collections, and includes several thousand coins. It describes and illustrates every die identified as belonging to the series and thus represents a new departure in the field of Islamic numismatics, which hitherto has not produced any large-scale die studies. The density of coverage in this catalogue should provide the basis for analysis of many historical problems of a monetary and political nature that have not yet been examined. { 172pp, 215x300mm, April 2001; HB, £60.00, 1854441558:9781854441553 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CAMILLE PISSARRO & HIS FAMILY [Anne Thorold & Kristen Erickson] The Ashmolean's collection of drawings and watercolours by Camille Pissarro is the largest in the world and is indeed the largest single collection of drawings by any impressionist artist. This book illustrates the full range of his work together with the work of his son Lucien and granddaughter Orovida. { 80pp, May 1993; PB, £7.95, 1854440314:9781854440310 / HB, £11.95, 1854440322:9781854440327 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CATALOGUE OF ISLAMIC COINS, VOLUME 1 : The Pre-Reform Coinage of the Early Islamic Period [Stephen Album] This will be the third volume to appear in a proposed ten-volume series, which aims to present the coins and their descriptions in as simple a manner as possible and in a format which is intended to facilitate ease of use. The coins are grouped in regional or dynastic sub-sections and then arranged chronologically under mint headings. { 225pp, 210x295mm, September 2002; HB, £60.00, 1854441736:9781854441737 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CHINESE PAINTINGS & MODERN CHINESE PAINTINGS BOXED SET [Shelagh Vainker] CHINESE PAINTINGS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD -- The Ashmolean Museum's Department of Eastern Art houses a collection of Chinese paintings that has been built up since the 1950s to complement the University's substantial holdings of Chinese bronzes, ceramics and decorative arts. The paintings include several works by early Qing (1644--1911) dynasty artists but its strength lies in the late Qing and twentieth-century paintings, which constitute one of the foremost collections of their type in Europe. This catalogue presents more than two hundred major works, from seventeenth century landscapes, through landscape and figure paintings by modern masters such as Ren Yi, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and Fu Baoshi, to recent work by contemporary artists, with inscriptions fully reproduced in Chinese characters, and an extensive bibliography. MODERN CHINESE PAINTINGS: THE REYES COLLECTION IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD -- The Reyes Collection of modern Chinese paintings covers the period from the middle of the 19th century until late 1995 when the collection was presented to the Ashmolean Museum. Artistically this period includes paintings which seek to update the tradition, as well as works embodying a response to Japanese or to Western art and works which reflect international art movements of the late 20th century. Politically it is a period that began under the Qing dynasty, which witnessed the founding of the Republic in 1911 and the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China; it was also a period punctuated by unrest in the form of widescale rebellion, the Sino-Japanese (1937-45) war, civil war and, most recently, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The plurality of artistic styles that arose in these circumstances, together with the ongoing tension between China's illustrious past and international present, has precluded the decisive formulation of a mainstream in Chinese painting; the Reyes collection, in representing the conservative as well as the innovative painters of each generation, is in keeping with most major collections, public and private, in this field. { May 2001; BS, £32.00, 1854441604:9781854441607 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CHINESE PAINTINGS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, OXFORD [Shelagh Vainker] The Ashmolean Museum's Department of Eastern Art houses a collection of Chinese paintings that has been built up since the 1950s to complement the University's substantial holdings of Chinese bronzes, ceramics and decorative arts. The paintings include several works by early Qing (1644--1911) dynasty artists but its strength lies in the late Qing and twentieth-century paintings, which constitute one of the foremost collections of their type in Europe. This catalogue presents more than two hundred major works, from seventeenth century landscapes, through landscape and figure paintings by modern masters such as Ren Yi, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Huang Binhong and Fu Baoshi, to recent work by contemporary artists, with inscriptions fully reproduced in Chinese characters, and an extensive bibliography. { 253pp, 180x250mm, March 2000; PB, £16.95, 1854441329:9781854441324 / HB, £27.95, 1854441450:9781854441454 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CHINESE PRINTS, 1950-2006 : New Acquisitions at the Ashmolean Museum [Weimin He & Shelagh Vainker] Focusing on the period since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, this catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the Ashmolean Museum's recently-acquired Chinese prints in October 2007. Prints include the New Year's pictures of the 1950s, the propaganda style woodcuts produced during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the 1960s-70s, and those made after China's open door policy of the 1980s up to the present day. The catalogue reflects the way in which artists have responded to these cultural, political and economic transformations through their work and aesthetic ideas.120 works from 67 established Chinese printmakers are reproduced to the highest standard in this catalogue, tracing the development from the first generation of printmaking masters to younger generations. An informative introduction and useful chronology are also included. { 176pp, 175x245mm, October 2007; PB, £14.95, 1854442287:9781854442284 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| CONTINUITY & CHANGE : Twentieth Century Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum [Katharine Eustace] Illustrated from the Ashmolean's collections of twentieth-century sculpture, this book continues the series of Ashmolean Handbooks, edited by the Director of the Ashmolean, Dr Christopher Brown. It provides a context in terms of the Ashmolean's world-famous collection of antique and renaissance sculpture and the development of twentieth-century sculpture as a whole. It makes accessible for the first time many pieces by, among others, Epstein, Frink, Maillol, Moore, Underwood and Zadkine. { 108pp, 205x210mm, June 2001; PB, £14.95, 1854441469:9781854441461 / HB, £22.95, 1854441477:9781854441478 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| DRAWINGS BY THE CARRACCI : from British Collections [Catherine Whistler] Catalogue of a loan exhibition of drawings by the influential 16th century Bolognese artists Lodovico, Agostino and Annibale Carracci. { 160pp, December 1996; PB, £27.50, 1854440926:9781854440921 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| DRAWINGS FROM THE AGE OF THE CARRACCI : Seventeenth Century Bolognese Drawings From the National Museum, Stockholm [Per Bjurström] A selection from the collection of works by 17 century Bolognese artists -- the 'Golden Age of Bolognese Art' -- put together by Carl Gustav Tessin (1695-1770), Swedish Ambassador in Paris during the 1740s and now part of the Swedish Royal Collection. Twenty-six drawings by the Carracci are included -- the brothers Agostino and Annibale and their cousin Ludovico -- together with many drawings by their pupils and followers such as Albano, Guercino, Guido Reni. { 224pp, 185x245mm, April 2002; PB, £14.95, 1854441701:9781854441706 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| DUTCH & FLEMISH STILL LIFE PAINTINGS : The Collection of Dutch & Flemish Still-Life Paintings Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward [Fred G Meijer] The Daisy Linda Ward collection represents 94 seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings presented to the Ashmolean in 1940. The original catalogue by JG van Gelder, published in 1950, has long been out of print. This catalogue serves as an important up to date work of reference. { 336pp, 235x290mm, July 2007; HB, £35.00, 9040088020:9789040088025 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| EARLY HIMALAYAN ART [Amy Heller] This book presents the Ashmolean Museum’s collection of some sixty important early sculptures and other objects from Tibet and Nepal dating from c500-1400 AD. They include a number of secular objects as well as images of deities in the Hindu and Buddhist pantheons. In order to trace their aesthetic and historical development, and their materials and techniques of manufacture Dr Amy Heller, an eminent authority on Himalayan art, examines the geography of trade within the Himalayan and neighbouring regions, the antecedents of these objects in India and the surrounding regions, and developments in the arts from the seventh to the fourteenth century in her introductory essay. The objects themselves are reproduced in colour throughout, with detailed descriptions to accompany them. { 175pp, 195x265mm, January 2008; PB, £14.95, 1854442090:9781854442093 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY : Food & Drink in the Greek & Roman World [Audrey Briers] EAT -- the foods available and enjoyed by the ancient Greeks and Romans. DRINK -- water and wine and the traditions which grew up around them. BE MERRY -- how people enjoyed themselves and the changing fashions of entertainment and manners in Greek and Roman times. { January 1990; PB, £3.95, 0907849938:9780907849933 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| EMBROIDERIES & SAMPLERS ISLAMIC EGYPT [Marianne Ellis] One of the world's most important collections of medieval Islamic embroideries is to be found in the Department of Eastern Art in Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum. The textiles were collected by the Egyptologist Percy Newberry between 1900 and 1930, while he was living in Cairo. Most of the embroideries were made in Egypt or Syria, they were mainly used as dress items and domestic furnishings, but the collection also has a number of samplers. Much of the material is now fragmentary, but the embroidered designs are still clearly visible. The richness of patterns and the technical brilliance of the majority of pieces make the collection a treasure trove for textile scholars and embroidery enthusiasts alike. The 66 examples of embroideries illustrated are from the Tulunid period (AD868-905), the Fatamid period (AD969-1171), the Ayyubid period (AD1171-1249), and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria, ending with the Ottoman Conquest in 1517 and demonstrate the wide variety of embroidery stitches and techniques already in use at that time. A large proportion are worked in geometric design but there are also examples of scrolling and Arabesque design, figurative motifs such as birds, animals and fish, and calligraphy. It is possible that some of the comparatively simple open-work techniques were imported to Italy via trade and became the basis for the development of needlelace in Europe. REVIEW: "A must for textile scholars and embroidery enthusiasts..." -- Embroidery, January 2002. { 96pp, 200x270mm, June 2001; PB, £16.95, 1854441353:9781854441355 / HB, £24.95, 185444154X:9781854441546 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ENGLAND UNDER THE STUARTS : Collections in the Ashmolean Museum From James I to Queen Anne [Moira Hook & Arthur MacGregor] This work is a review of England from the accession of James I to the death of Queen Anne. It is illustrated by contemporary material exhibited in the Ashmolean Museum. The era encompassed civil war, revolution, the first steps towards industrialisation and the establishment of colonies. { 51pp, 185x245mm, February 2003; PB, £7.95, 185444185X:9781854441850 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ENGLISH DELFTWARE [Anthony Ray] In the course of its two hundred years history, from c1570 to the 1770s when cream-ware came into fashion, English delfware played an increasingly important part in the everyday life of a mainly middle class clientele. By its nature bright and colourful, it was also extremely versatile, adapting itself to the practical needs of the households, and in its decoration, responding to the fashion of the time. Above all, it lent itself admirably to the demand for personalised pieces of all kinds. It is these qualities which have made it so attractive to collectors, especially in recent years. This book illustrates fifty-one examples, the majority from the important collection formed by Robert and Jean Warren but with a selection of pieces, mainly unpublished, from other benefactions, together with purchases and objects excavated in Oxford. { 80pp, 150x210mm, March 2000; PB, £7.95, 1854441299:9781854441294 / HB, £11.95, 1854441302:9781854441300 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ENGLISH EMBROIDERIES [Mary M Brooks] This handbook explores the Ashmolean Museum's collection of English seventeenth-century embroideries. These intriguing pieces, often made by affluent school girls, include pictorial panels and an elaborate box showing bible stories as well as costume accessories and fanciful items such as a frog-shaped purse. The introductory essay explores how the miniature world of kings and queens, biblical and classical heroes, courtiers and shepherdesses, set in landscapes with lovingly depicted animals and flowers, connects with the turbulent events of the seventeenth century. Detailed photographs reveal the fine stitches and imaginative raised work embroidery techniques we well as the lavish use of metal threads and semi-precious stones. The book will appeal to all those interested in the life of seventeenth-century women as well as to textiles and embroidery specialists. { 96pp, 155x215mm, January 2004; PB, £7.95, 1854441922:9781854441928 / HB, £11.95, 1854441930:9781854441935 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| FINGER RINGS : Ancient to Modern [Diana Scarisbrick & Martin Henig] The book divides into two sections Part One, 'Rings in the Ancient Mediterranean World' which illustrates the earliest rings from the Hittite empire, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Crete and Cyprus, dating from the 2nd millennium BC to the 3rd and 4th century AD. Part Two, 'The Middle Ages to Modern Times' includes medieval, Renaissance and 17th century signet rings; magical rings, love and marriage, memorial and 'Giardinetti' or decorative rings from the 18th century. { 80pp, 150x215mm, June 2003; PB, £7.95, 1854441663:9781854441669 / HB, £11.95, 1854441671:9781854441676 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| FOREST FIRE BY PIERO DI COSIMO [Catherine Whistler & David Bomford] Piero Di Cosimo (1461/62--1522) was characterised in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550) as an eccentric, who lived on a diet of hard-boiled eggs, and hated the sound of children crying, men coughing, and friars chanting. Yet Piero was a successful artist in Florence, celebrated for his imaginative and often unorthodox treatment of classical themes, and for his fascination with nature. The Forest Fire in the Ashmolean Museum is one of his most beautiful and enigmatic pictures. { 25pp, 200x200mm, March 1999; PB, £3.95, 1854441183:9781854441188 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| FRAMES & FRAMINGS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM [Timothy Newbery] Frames fulfil a variety of functions, from the protective to the decorative; they can indicate ownership or they can assert the importance of the paintings they enclose. In their shape and ornamentation, frames are linked to architectural forms or to furniture and interior design, while many styles of decoration can be related to the work of goldsmiths and of sculptors. Few pictures survive in their original frames because of changing ownership: they were re-framed so as to harmonise with different settings, whether in princely galleries or private houses. The way that a picture is framed strongly affects its visual appearance and impact. When a painting retains its original frame, we can appreciate the visual relationship between the two that the artist would have intended. Framings by subsequent owners with different frame styles can tell us much about the taste and priorities of a particular period or place. This book looks at frame history and design in the context of the Ashmolean Museum's collection of frames, and aims to provide a sense of the importance of the picture frame in the history of art as a whole. { 80pp, 145x210mm, February 2003; PB, £7.95, 1854441744:9781854441744 / HB, £11.95, 1854441752:9781854441751 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| FRENCH DRAWINGS & WATERCOLOURS : Poussin to Cezanne [Jon Whiteley] The history of French painting is not the same thing as a history of French drawing, although the two do of course frequently combine. The very greatest French draughtsmen, such as Watteau, Fragonard, Ingres or Degas (all represented in this book) were also amongst the greatest painters. Fifty-two works are illustrated, from a collection of over 2000, from early 17th century chalk drawings by Callot, Stella and Claude Lorraine, through to late 19 century drawings and watercolours by the likes of Manet, Berthe Morisot and Tissot. { 112pp, 150x215mm, January 2002; PB, £7.95, 185444168X:9781854441683 / HB, £11.95, 1854441698:9781854441690 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| GRACEFUL & TRUE : Drawing in Florence c1600 [Julian Brooks] The 'Graceful and True' Exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum is the first dedicated show of late sixteenth-century Florentine drawings in the United Kingdom, and represents a major achievement in highlighting such little-known treasures. While recent exhibitions in Italy, America and elsewhere have encouraged the study and appreciation of drawings from this period, the richness and quality of works from British collections is explored here, for the first time, and in a fitting fashion. { 160pp, 220x280mm, October 2003; PB, £14.95, 1854441914:9781854441911 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| HUNT IN THE FOREST BY PAOLO UCCELLO [Catherine Whistler] A masterpiece of the early Renaissance, Paolo Uccello's (1397-1475) 'Hunt in the Forest' is a magical and enigmatic picture. The painting clearly belongs to the last decade of Uccello's career, and stylistic comparisons with the narrative scenes that he painted in the late 1460s in Urbino suggest that 'The Hunt' must date from soon after that. Uccello's lifelong interest in geometry and perspective, together with his skill in depicting animals and landscape, combine in this swansong, a jewel-like painting designed to please a sophisticated audience. The Hunt in the Forest is a rare and tantalising survivor of a particular type of secular painting. A spalliera painting (from spalla, meaning shoulder), it would have been set into the panelling of a room at shoulder height. Scenes from ancient history and mythology, or from medieval romance, were common in spalliera paintings, and many have come down to us. However, the fact that a hunting scene with figures in contemporary dress is elaborately and playfully depicted by a major artist makes this panel virtually unique in Florentine domestic painting of the fifteenth century. Clearly the patron who ordered this picture was a discerning one, familiar with Uccello's distinctive artistic talents. The painting has been in thc collection of the Ashrnolean Museum since 1850. { 24pp, 200x200mm, September 2001; PB, £3.95, 1854441523:9781854441522 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| I AM WELL, WHO ARE YOU? : Writings of a Japanese Prisoner of War [David Piper] David Piper studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge from 1937-1940. He was then sent to join the Indian Army, trained at Bangalore as an officer, and went to fight the Japanese in Malaya. From February 1942 -- September 1945 he was in Japanese prison camps and the writings in this book reflect his thoughts on the experience at different stages in his life. The last section comes from a diary he kept during the last year of imprisonment at Shirakawa camp in Taiwan. { 96pp, 155x215mm, July 1998; HB, £12.00, 0953212300:9780953212309 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| INDIAN PAINTINGS : from Oxford collections [Andrew Topsfield] A selection of the Mughal period (c1500-1850) paintings from the Ashmolean Museum and the Bodleian Library. The illustrations include examples from Rajput, Deccani and Mughal schools. { 80pp, December 1994; PB, £7.95, 1854440500:9781854440501 / HB, £11.95, 1854440519:9781854440518 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| ISLAMIC CERAMICS [James Allan] A survey of Islamic ceramics from 9th century lustreware, 16 and 17th century blue and white to 17th century 'Gombroon Ware'. The pieces are mainly from Turkey or Iran, formerly in the collections of Sir Alan Barlow or Gerald Reitlinger. { 80pp, October 1991; HB, £11.95, 1854440225:9781854440228 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| J M W TURNER : Watercolours, Drawings & Paintings [Luke Herrmann & Colin Harrison] Luke Herrman, a leading authority on the life and work of Turner, sets the Ashmolean's collections within the context of the artist's life and particularly his relationship with Ruskin. The Turner collection in the Ashmolean Museum is the finest and most representative of his watercolours and drawings outside London, including work from all periods of his life providing a broad survey of his development as a draughtsman. It includes ten watercolours commissioned from the young Turner to be engraved for the Oxford Almanack between 1799 and 1810, and a representative selection of sketches and finished works, over 70 of which were given to the University of Oxford by the artist's friend and champion, John Ruskin, among them 23 watercolours from the celebrated series, The Rivers of France. { 80pp, 205x210mm, May 2000; PB, £9.95, 1854441213:9781854441218 / HB, £12.95, 1854441221:9781854441225 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| JAPANESE DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE MEIJI PERIOD 1868-1912 [Oliver Impey] It is not easy to overstate the cataclysmic effects of the run-up to the implementation of the Meiji ‘Restoration' in Japan in 1868. The changes affected every aspect of Japanese life; a new sense of a single nation, as opposed to a series of regional loyalties, was created. The word Meiji means ‘enlightened government' and the new government had as a primary aim the bringing of Japan into the group of modern western industrial powers. One of the ways the government decided to do this was to demonstrate to the world the brilliance of Japanese craftsmanship. New techniques, such as cloisonné enamel began to be developed for the first time in Japan. Active purchasing has meant the Ashmolean now has a well- represented collection of the highest quality. { 112pp, 210x145mm, September 2005; PB, £7.95, 1854441981:9781854441980 / HB, £11.95, 1854441973:9781854441973 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| JAPANESE PAINTINGS [Janice Katz] This is the first comprehensive look at the Ashmolean Museum's significant Japanese painting collection, featuring works that range in date from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, many of which are illustrated in colour. A full sixty of the finest paintings are discussed in detail individually, divided into sections based on the major schools of painting active in Japan from the Edo period (1615 to 1868) to the modern era. Throughout the discussion, the book highlights the work of artists outside the traditional cultural centres of Edo and Kyoto by including artworks by Nagasaki and Osaka-based artists whose paintings will be less familiar to a western audience. { 254pp, 245x285mm, November 2003; HB, £35.00, 1854441892:9781854441898 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| KUNIYOSHI'S HEROES OF CHINA & JAPAN [Oliver Impey & Mitsuko Watanabe] This booklet follows two earlier ones of landscape prints by Ando Hiroshige, 'Hiroshige's views of Tokyo' (1993) and 'Hiroshige's views of Mount Fuji' (2001). In each of these books twenty prints were selected for reproduction and discussion, from the collection of the Department of Eastern Art, the Ashmolean museum. This book follows that format. { 32pp, 150x210mm, February 2003; PB, £4.95, 1854441833:9781854441836 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| LIFE & DEATH IN THE IRON AGE [Jennifer Foster] This is an introduction for the general reader, looking at the archaeology of Europe in the last prehistoric period before the Roman conquest (from c800 BC to AD 43). The archaeological collection of the Ashmolean Museums are used to illustrate a series of themes about the lives and deaths of people at this time, their appearance, clothes and ornaments, their economy and trade, how they produced and consumed their food, and the warfare of the period as shown through weapons. The collection at the Ashmolean owes much to Sir John Evans. The excavations and objects from the important early Iron Age cemetery of Hallstatt, Austria, some of which were excavated by Sir John, are covered in some detail. The text is lavishly supplemented by colour illustrations, particularly of exhibits from the Ashmolean Department of Antiquities. { 48pp, 185x245mm, August 2002; PB, £7.95, 1854441795:9781854441799 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| MAIOLICA : Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum, Second Edition [Timothy Wilson] Intended as a general introduction to Italian Renaissance ceramics -- each piece illustrated is chosen from amongst the finest and characteristic of the major centres of production including Florence, Siena and Urbino. The techniques and processes of Renaissance Maiolica are briefly discussed and the subject matter of each painted piece is related to the wider artistic culture of the time. { 88pp, 150x210mm, August 2003; PB, £7.95, 1854441760:9781854441768 / HB, £11.95, 1854441779:9781854441775 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| MEDIEVAL ENGLAND : From Alfred the Great to Richard III [Moira Hook & Arthur MacGregor] This work presents archaeological collections of the Ashmolean Museum which serve to illustrate a comprehensive series of historical themes, from the reign of Alfred the Great to the end of the Wars of the Roses. A sequence of well-defined topics has been chosen which characterise these crucial five centuries and more of English history: social, economic and political developments are reviewed; the evolution of trade, industry and agriculture is traced; text is supplemented by numerous illustrations (including 12 pages of colour) of exhibits from the Ashomean's medieval collections, giving tangible form to the concepts examined and forming a well-integrated presentation of archaeological and historical evidence. { 64pp, September 1997; PB, £7.95, 1854440616:9781854440617 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| MODERN CHINESE PAINTINGS : The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [Shelagh Vainker] The Reyes Collection of modern Chinese paintings covers the period from the middle of the 19th century until late 1995 when the collection was presented to the Ashmolean Museum. Artistically this period includes paintings which seek to update the tradition, as well as works embodying a response to Japanese or to Western art and works which reflect international art movements of the late 20th century. Politically it is a period that began under the Qing dynasty, which witnessed the founding of the Republic in 1911 and the establishment in 1949 of the People's Republic of China; it was also a period punctuated by unrest in the form of widescale rebellion, the Sino-Japanese (1937-45) war, civil war and, most recently, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The plurality of artistic styles that arose in these circumstances, together with the ongoing tension between China's illustrious past and international present, has precluded the decisive formulation of a mainstream in Chinese painting; the Reyes collection, in representing the conservative as well as the innovative painters of each generation, is in keeping with most major collections, public and private, in this field. { 96pp, 175x245mm, September 1996; PB, £12.95, 1854440799:9781854440792 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ((Ashmolean Handbook Series)) [Jon Whiteley] The Ashmolean’s collection of European stringed instruments is not large but it is very famous. Several of the instruments in the Ashmolean are among the rarest and most beautiful of their kind and most are, in some way, exceptional. The collection was founded on a group of instruments which was given to the museum by the firm of W.E. Hill & Sons in 1939 and has since been increased by two bequests and by an important group of bows and instruments given by Albert Cooper in 1999. The firm of W.E. Hill & Sons was founded in 1880 and by the early 20th century the firm had achieved an unrivalled reputation in making, restoring, and selling stringed instruments. In the course of handling and repairing instruments, the Hills became increasingly aware of the damage that was being inflicted on early viols and violins by constant playing and repeated restoration. This concern gave rise to the idea of donating a select group of rare instruments to a museum where they would be preserved from further harm, and the first instruments were handed over in 1939. The present handbook discusses and illustrates every stringed instrument in the collection and is chiefly intended for the many visitors to the Hill Collection and for the wider public who might wish for more information about the instruments and some background history. { 96pp, 145x210mm, October 2008; PB, £7.95, 1854442007:9781854442000 / HB, £11.95, 185444199X:9781854441997 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| NEW FLOWERING : 1000 Years of Botanical Art [Shirley Sherwood; Foreword by HRH The Prince on Wales] An exhibition of one thousand years of botanical art displayed in the Ashmolean’s leading exhibition and providing the unique opportunity to compare illustrations by contemporary artists alongside remarkable botanical art of the past. Chosen by Dr Shirley Sherwood from her acclaimed collection of botanical painting and from the rich historical treasures of Oxford’s libraries and museums these inspiring plant portraits stand at the interface between art and science. The oldest exhibit is a drawing of a thistle made by a monk from the late 11th century and the most recent painting, by Angela Mirro, is of a rare Peruvian slipper orchid discovered in 2002. By contrasting the old with the new throughout the show, it becomes apparent that the criteria for botanical illustration have not changed throughout the centuries. { 200pp, 220x280mm, May 2005; PB, £20.00, 1854442066:9781854442062 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| OPULENCE & DEVOTION : Brazilian Baroque Art [Catherine Whistler] From the late 16th to the end of the 18th centuries, when Brazil was a Portuguese colony, painting and sculpture was almost entirely religious in nature. Fired with zeal for the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, Jesuit, Franciscan and Benedictine missionaries exploited the sensory impact of painting, sculpture, music and drama to promote the faith there. The opulent, majestic and theatrical Catholicism that gradually took root appealed to the imagination and to the senses -- as did the Baroque art of Counter-Reformation Europe. This book has been published to mark the first exhibition in Britain of Brazilian Baroque Art. Edited and largely compiled by Dr Catherine Whistler, the book also contains an art-historical survey by Dr Cristina Avila, of The Federal University of Minas Gerais, and an essay on Patronage and Expressions of the Baroque by Professor A J R Russell-Wood of The Johns Hopkins University. The colour plates demonstrate the vitality and virtuosity of the individual sculptures, domestic altarpieces, and pieces of liturgical silver loaned to the exhibition from private collections and Museums in Brazil. { 96pp, 245x245mm, October 2001; PB, £14.95, 1854441574:9781854441577 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| OXFORD & THE PRE-RAPHAELITES [Jon Whiteley] Oxford is exceptionally rich in Pre-Raphaelite associations. At various times nearly all the Pre-Raphaelite artists lived and worked in the city. The Ashmolean has one of the finest collections of paintings, drawings and sculpture from this movement. Reprinted 2004. { 80pp, January 1989; PB, £7.95, 0907849946:9780907849940 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| PILGRIMAGE : The Sacred Journey [Ruth Barnes & Crispin Branfoot] This book explores the role of pilgrimage in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the religions that developed in India. It was written to coincide with an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2006), but it is not a catalogue of the display. It is intended to be read independently, as it explores attitudes to pilgrimage in the different religions; it also includes accounts of individual pilgrimage, both historical and contemporary. Common themes emerge, regardless of religious affiliation. The departure from daily life is part of all pilgrimages. Along the way, the journey may lead past lesser shrines and sacred landscapes. The visit to the central shrine, the final goal of the journey, culminates in an intense spiritual experience. Reliquaries and souvenirs many help to hold on to this moment and transfer its power back into everyday life. Pilgrimage survives as an important aspect of religious awareness and identification to this day. { 132pp, 220x280mm, February 2006; PB, £14.95, 1854442155:9781854442154 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| POETRY OF TRUTH : Alfred William Hunt & the Art of Landscape [Christopher Newall, Scott Wilcox & Colin Harrison] Alfred William Hunt (1830 - 1896) was one of a group of progressive English painters who introduced a new intensity and meticulousness to landscape painting in the 1850s and early 1860s, adapting the Ruskinian principle of 'truth to nature' to a highly individual form of Pre-Raphaelite observation of nature. This catalogue accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Hunt's work for more than 100 years. { 160pp, 280x220mm, September 2004; PB, £14.95, 1854441965:9781854441966 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| PU QUAN & HIS GENERATION : Imperial Painters of Twentieth Century China [Shelagh Vainker & James Lin] Pu Songchuang (1913-1991) was born into the last generation of the Qing imperial family, a cousin of the last emperor Pu Yi. An exhibition of his work was held Oxford from Decemer 2004 to March 2005 and included paintings from all periods of his career, documenting a change in style from traditional gongbi birds and flowers, to sweeping landscapes in ink. Some early paintings are executed on Ming dynasty silk from the imperial treasury, while several of the later landscapes in ink on paper depict scenery from the route of the Long March, which Pu travelled in 1956 with a group of artists as part of the celebrations of the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army. The paintings came from the collections of the artist’s family in Hong Kong, and from a private collection in Oxford and were displayed here in public for the first time. Most have never before been published. { 96pp, 175x245mm, December 2004; PB, £12.95, 185444204X:9781854442048 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| RENAISSANCE MASTER BRONZES : The Fortnum Collection at the Ashmolean Museum [Jeremy Warren] Published in association with the Daniel Katz Gallery, London, to mark the centenary of the death of one of the Museum's major benefactors, C D E Fortnum, whose bequest to the Ashmolean formed the nucleus of what is now one of the finest collections of Renaissance bronzes in Europe. { 144pp, June 1999; PB, £20.00, 1854441205:9781854441201 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| RUSKIN'S DRAWINGS [Nicholas Penny] A selection of architectural drawings, largely of Venice and Verona; landscapes; studies of trees, flowers and birds, all types of strands of inspiration for Ruskin's art and ideas indicative of the breadth of his interests. Reprinted 2004. { 80pp, January 1988; PB, £7.95, 0907849741:9780907849742 / HB, £11.95, 1854441043:9781854441041 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SAMUEL PALMER [Colin Harrison] The collection of paintings, drawings, watercolours and etchings by Samuel Palmer in the Ashmolean Museum is the most important in the world. It is especially rich in the early works of the Shoreham period, from c. 1824 to 1834, notably the haunting self portrait and the unique group of six sepia drawings of 1825, which represent the 'visionary landscape' at its most intense. This handbook reproduces in colour all but a few of the works by Palmer in the Ashmolean. The book is designed to provide a stimulating introduction for the general reader and a useful and reliable guide for the expert. Colin Harrison is an Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum. { 80pp, 150x210mm, February 1998; HB, £11.95, 1854441000:9781854441003 / PB, £7.95, 1854441019:9781854441010 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SCYTHIAN & THRACIAN ANTIQUITIES IN OXFORD [Michael Vickers] The Scythians were nomads who roamed the Steppes of Russia during the first millennium BC before settling in the region to the north of the Black Sea, where they came into friendly contact with Greek traders. This book is based upon the contents of six Scythian tombs from Nymphaeum excavated in 1868 (a Greek colony in the Crimea) -- gold jewellery, silver plate, pottery, armour and weapons -- together with the previously unpublished contents of a princely Thracian burial found at Dalboki, east of Stara Zagora in North Central Bulgaria, in 1879. { 80pp, 150x210mm, January 2003; PB, £7.95, 1854441809:9781854441805 / HB, £11.95, 1854441817:9781854441812 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SIR JOHN EVANS 1823-1908 : Antiquity, Commerce & Natural Science in the Age of Darwin [Arthur MacGregor (ed)] The figure of Sir John Evans might stand as an exemplar for so many aspects of Victorian virtue. From beginnings as a clerk in the paper industry, he rose by hard work and astute judgement (not to mention advantageous marriage) to the peak of his profession. He became a phenomenon amongst the learned societies, holding office in the Royal Society, Numismatic Society, Society of Antiquaries, Geological Society and others. A thrice-married family man, he enjoyed a wide friendship, drawn mostly from the scholarly and scientific community and characterised as the ‘Darwinist community’; with a strong sense of purpose they sought ways to extend the principles of natural selection to numismatic and antiquarian practice, and to establish protocols for the communication of visual evidence. Evans played key roles in topics as diverse as the water supply for the metropolis and the establishment of human antiquity. His archaeological and numismatic collections were internationally famous and formed the basis for a body of printed works produced over fifty years of sustained effort. In this easily readable but scholarly volume, fourteen authors examine Evans' enduring significance in a study that firmly establishes his place in the canon of leading figures of Victorian society. { 326pp, 180x260mm, May 2008; HB, £45.00, 1854442376:9781854442376 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SUMMARY CATALOGUE OF THE CONTINENTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM [Arthur MacGregor et al] A complete illustrated inventory of the Museum's holdings of Roman Iron Age, Migration Period and Early Medieval, the greater part of which were amassed in the 19th century by Sir John Evans. An extensive bibliography is included, together with a topographical index. { 288pp, July 1998; PB, £45.00, 1854441027:9781854441027 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SYLLOGE OF ISLAMIC COINS IN THE ASHMOLEAN, VOLUME 9 : Iran After the Mongol Invasion [Stephen Album] This volume (the second to be published in the series) contains nearly 1800 coins of the 13th-19th centuries from Iran, Afghanistan and neighbouring lands. It covers the following dynasties: Ilkhanid, Timürid, Qara Quyunlu, Aq Quyunlu, Safavid, Qaja, Durrãni and Barakzäy. They are arranged by mint, and chronologically with mints, six maps and index of names and titles. The introduction offers not only a guide to the use of the catalogue, but also sets out an agenda for the study of the monetary history of the period. Late medieval Iranian coinage offers the historian the earliest opportunity to examine the relationship between coinage issue in the Islamic world and the monetary policies which underlie them. The collections which contribute to this volume are all housed in the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum. The most important of these is undoubtedly that part of the Thorburn collection which was acquired by the Coin Room in 1966. The Ashmolean collection began in the late 17th century but included few Islamic coins until the acquisition of the J.B. Elliott collection in 1859. Since then the collection of Islamic coins has grown to more than 9000 pieces, not including the Ottoman Empire, the Muslim states of India or modern machine-struck coinage. This catalogue is the second in a projected series of ten volumes, covering the Ashmolean's permanent collection of Islamic coins and that of Samir Shamma, one of the finest private collections of Islamic coins ever formed in the Middle East. { 240pp, 210x295mm, September 2001; HB, £65.00, 1854441590:9781854441591 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| SYLLOGE OF ISLAMIC COINS, VOLUME 6 : The Egyptian Dynasties [Norman D Nicol] This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th to 16 centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. It covers the following dynasties: Tulunids, Ikhshidids, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Zengids and Mamluks. The collection included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden coin Room and the Shamma Collection. { 224pp, 215x280mm, August 2007; HB, £60.00, 1854442104:9781854442109 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TECHNIQUES OF DRAWING [Ursula Weekes] Drawing has long been revered as the most basic skill of the artist and as the foundation of all other arts, for it is in the act of drawing that the artist's creativity finds its first impression. This book traces the historical development of all the major techniques of drawing in European art from the 15th to the 19th centuries, including metalpoint, charcoal, natural chalk, pastel, crayon, graphite, pen and ink, watercolour and gouache. The text is illustrated with examples from the magnificent collection of drawings at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which includes works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, J.M.W. Turner and Edgar Degas. { 48pp, 185x245mm, October 1999; PB, £7.95, 1854441132:9781854441133 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TEXTILES THROUGH THE AGES [Ruth Barnes, Emma Dick & Jon Thompson] This booklet is intended to illustrate the history of textiles and weaving through the centuries by bringing together some key objects from the Ashmolean Museum's many collections. The oldest objects tell us about the early history of the fibres used by weavers and how different textiles techniques develop and spread in the ancient world. The later objects -- not arranged in any strict sequence -- show how textiles were used in society to indicate rank and status, and how they were transported from one culture to another, sometimes over great distances, to become both functional and luxury items, occasionally exotic articles of high fashion. { 24pp, 200x200mm, May 2002; PB, £3.95, 1854441841:9781854441843 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TOY SOLDIERS & CEREMONIAL IN POST-MUGHAL INDIA [Digby] Contains pictures and descriptions of toy soldiers, most from collections at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. { January 1982; PB, £1.95, 090009091X:9780900090912 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TREASURES OF THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM Revised and updated souvenir book of the highlights of this vast collection. The treasures of the Ashmolean Museum have been accumulated over three centuries, since its foundation by Elias Ashmole in 1683. This book provides an extraordinary overview of these treasures in one beautiful, highly-illustrated volume, a new edition of the previous 'Treasures' book. The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest public museum in Britain, and may even be the oldest in the world. It is a museum that will provide many hours of happy browsing for anyone interested in art or archaeology. The Ashmolean offers collections of international importance, and this books contains a selection of photographs of treasures from these collections, each accompanied by information about each object the written by the Ashmolean's curators. { October 2008; PB, £14.95, 1854442120:9781854442123 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TURNER'S OXFORD [Colin Harrison] From his childhood visits to his uncle at Sunningwell, Turner was fascinated by Oxford: no other place in England so consistently engaged his attention over so long a period, from the beginning of his career until the late 1830s. Indeed, his first documented drawing, made at the age of 12, was a copy of one of Rooker's designs for the ‘Oxford Almanack’, and it was followed by a substantial group of early drawings and sketches remarkable for the astonishingly rapid technical progress they display. His most important early commission was for 10 watercolours to be engraved as headpieces for the Oxford Almanack, the first of which was published in 1799. This book brings together all his views of the city and discusses the circumstances surrounding the genesis of these works. They include watercolours by the teenage artist, watercolours commissioned for the ‘Oxford Almanack’ together with preparatory works and finished watercolours for several projects in the 1820s and 1830s, when Turner was at the height of his powers. { 160pp, July 2000; HB, £16.95, 1854441388:9781854441386 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| TWENTIETH CENTURY PAINTINGS : In the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [Katherine Eustace] Includes early or transitional works by Bonnard, Picasso, Braque and Matisse, important British painters from the Camden Town and Euston Road schools, together with post-war works by Ben Nicholson, John Piper and Lucien Freud. { 80pp, March 1999; PB, £7.95, 1854441167:9781854441164 / HB, £11.95, 1854441175:9781854441171 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| WATCHES [David Thompson] The collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum are largely as a result of three major bequests, including Bentinck Hawkins collection of 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallett in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising of 120 watches. Together these make the Ashmolean collection one of the most important outside London. The history and development of watch design and decoration is extremely well served, with many important examples dating from the 16th century to the mid 19th century. This handbook explores 30 of the best from the collection. { 92pp, 150x210mm, November 2007; PB, £7.95, 185444218X:9781854442185 / HB, £11.95, 1854442198:9781854442192 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF GERTRUDE HERMES & BLAIR HUGHES-STANTON [Katharine Eustace] Hughes-Stanton and Hermes, both pupils of Leon Underwood in Hammersmith during the 1920's, pushed the medium of wood engraving to its technical limits, and into the realm of the avant garde. This book includes their joint contributions to Seven Pillars of Wisdom and The Pilgrim's Progress. { 72pp, December 1995; PB, £7.95, 1854440640:9781854440648 , Ashmolean Museum } |
| WORCESTER PORCELAIN : Revised Edition [Dinah Reynolds] The most representative collection known of 'First (Dr Wall) period' coloured Worcester porcelain, 1751-83, contains over 1000 pieces, was given to the Ashmolean in 1975 by Mr and Mrs H R Marshall. { 80pp, January 1999; PB, £7.95, 090784975X:9780907849759 / HB, £11.95, 1854441272:9781854441270 , Ashmolean Museum } |