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Enlightenment Architectures and the reconstruction of Sir Hans Sloane's Cabinets of Miscellanies

Sloan, K; Nyhan, J; (2020) Enlightenment Architectures and the reconstruction of Sir Hans Sloane's Cabinets of Miscellanies. Journal of the History of Collections , Article fhaa034. 10.1093/jhc/fhaa034. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Focusing on Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogue of ‘Miscellanies’, now in the British Museum, this paper asks firstly how Sloane described objects and secondly whether the original contents of the cabinets can be reconstructed from his catalogue. Drawing on a sustained, digitally augmented analysis – the first of its kind – of Sloane’s catalogues, we respond to these questions and offer an initial analysis of the contents of the cabinets that held the miscellaneous objects at Sloane’s manor house in Chelsea. Knowledge of how and why Sloane catalogued this part of his collection has hitherto remained underdeveloped. We argue that his focus on preservation and documentation in his cataloguing did not preclude a research role, but rather was founded on immersive participation. Our work was undertaken as part of a Leverhulme Trust funded research project, Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s Catalogues of his Collections (2016–19), a collaboration between the British Museum and University College London.

Type: Article
Title: Enlightenment Architectures and the reconstruction of Sir Hans Sloane's Cabinets of Miscellanies
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/jhc/fhaa034
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhaa034
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111011
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