Natter's Museum Britannicum

• Verfasst von: Natter, Johann Lorenz [VerfasserIn] [KünstlerIn]
• Titel: Natter's Museum Britannicum
• Titelzusatz: British gem collections and collectors of the mid-Eighteenth century : based on the manuscripts "Museum Britannicum" an "Catalogue des pierres gravées dans mon Cabinet" belonging to the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Mitwirkende: Kagan, Julia [ZusammenstellendeR]
• Mitwirkende: Wagner, Claudia [ZusammenstellendeR]
• Institutionen: Gosudarstvennyj Ėrmitaž
• Verf.angabe: by John Boardman, Julia Kagan, Claudia Wagner; with contributions by Catherine Phillips
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Archaeopress
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: iii, 304 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• ISBN: 978-1-78491-727-2
• Schlagwörter: (k)British Museum / (s)Gemme / (s)Antike / (s)Sammlung / (z)Geschichte 1750
• Schlagwörter: (p)Natter, Johann Lorenz / (s)Gemme / (s)Sammlung
• Dokumenttyp: Bildband
• Dokumenttyp: Katalog
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Gems
• Sach-SW: Gems
• Sach-SW: Natter, Lorenz
• Sach-SW: Natter, Lorenz
• Sach-SW: Great Britain
• Sach-SW: Catalogs and collections
• K10plus-PPN: 1015551939

Abstract

The German gem-engraver, medallist, and amateur scholar Lorenz Natter (1705- 1763), was so impressed by the size and quality of the collections of ancient and later engraved gems which he found in Britain that he proposed the publication of an extraordinarily ambitious catalogue - Museum Britannicum - which would present engravings and descriptions of the most important pieces. He made considerable progress to this end, producing several hundred drawings, but in time he decided to abandon the near completed project in the light of the apparent lack of interest shown in Britain. Only one of the intended plates in its final form ever appeared, in a catalogue which he published separately for Lord Bessborough's collection. On Natter's death the single copy of his magnum opus vanished mysteriously, presumed lost forever. 0All hope of recovering Natter's unpublished papers seemed vain, and their very existence had come to be doubted. Yet they were to be found more than two hundred years after his death, in Spring 1975, when the classical scholar and renowned expert in gems, Oleg Neverov, chanced upon them at the bottom of a pile of papers in the archives of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Neverov and his colleague Julia Kagan carried out the initial research on the Hermitage manuscripts and produced the first published account of this archival treasure