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Classical antiquities

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 3 (Notes on Hellenistic sculpture), 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/2
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 3'. Notes on Hellenistic Greek sculpture, indexed at the back ff. 75 v.-76. Notes taken from a bibilographic review of the subject, organised by museum collection and/or name of the sculpture. Also includes notes made in person by Wace at the Athens Archaeological Museum, each object under study referenced by its museum number. 8 inserts: a business card in a stamped,...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
 Item

A. J. B. Wace British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 5 (Notes on Hellenistic portraiture), 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/4
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace. British School. Athens 1003. Notebook 5'. Notes on Hellenistic portraits, indexed alphabetically at the back. Arranged by historical figure, with notes on whom the portrait depicts, the museum colleciton in which the bust can be found and key bibliography. 4 inserts: 3 leaves of of rough notes and 1 leaf of blotting paper. The notebook is undated, presumed to be a record of Wace's intensive studies of Greek sculpture...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
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A. J. B. Wace Notebook 1 (Notes on Hellenistic sculpture in museum collections), 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/1/1
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the v. of front board, 'A. J. B. Wace N. B. 1'. Notes on Hellenistic Greek sculpture held in European museums, including referenced summaries from bibliography Wace had read on each. Notes on one sculpture per folio, written on the r. only (except for 'Alexandrine art', f. 60, on which he made copious notes on r. and v). Indexed alphabetically at the back, ff. 84-86. The notebook is undated, presumed to be a record of Wace's intensive studies of Greek sculpture and art...
Dates: 1902 - 1903
Conditions Governing Access: Closed to readers, fragile.
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Book C [Classical sculpture in museum collections], 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/4
Scope and Contents

Photographs of classical sculpture, arranged and labelled by AJBW by museum collection and thereafter by the name of the sculpture or by object accession number. Includes images from the Louvre, Dresden, Berlin, the Cast Gallery of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, UK (MOCA); Cairo and Alexandria museums, Egypt.
The siginificance of AJBW's initials 'C. D.' after some descriptions is unknown.

Dates: 1902 - 1903
 Fonds

Classics Faculty - Teaching collection of glass lantern slides

Reference Code: GBR/3437/CLAS
Scope and Contents

The Faculty of Classics' teaching collection of monochrome glass lantern slides, featuring ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, pottery, coins and other artefacts from classical antiquity.

Dates: 1910-1934
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Half plate Negative Album Book 3

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/53
Scope and Contents 50 halfplate negatives. The Index as filled in by AJBW only goes up to and includes Item 39. Many negatives removed long before accession to the Faculty Archives, as part of an 'HS Series', by AJBW. Includes views of Pergamon in western Asia Minor (Turkey), the island of Delos, Geraki and Mistras in Lakonia, classical sculpture in museum collections in Rome and Turin, pottery in Thessaly, the Acropolis of Athens, Lykabettos, the British School at Athens Hostel and finally, a...
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Halfplate Negative Album Book 2

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/52
Scope and Contents

52 halfplate negatives of museum objects in Sparta Museum, sites in Lakonia (Gerki, Monemvasia), Volos and its environs in Thessaly and the island of Skopelos. Some images of classical scuplture from other European museum collections (mainly Berlin).

 Fonds

Joseph Bonomi: Correspondence and Papers

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9389
Scope and Contents The collection comprises mostly Joseph Bonomi's correspondence and papers, with some of his brother Ignatius Bonomi and other members of his family, especially his sister-in-law Isabella Mary Martin. The non-family correspondence includes letters with Samuel Birch, Egyptologist at the British Museum, George Spencer Cautley, rector and poet, Charles Robert Cockerell, architect, John Gibson, sculptor, James Haliburton, Egyptologist, Robert Hay, Egyptologist, Owen Jones, architect, Edward Lane,...
Dates: 1813-1878 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Negative Album [archaeological sites in western Asia Minor]

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/57
Scope and Contents

74 negatives of views from Asia Minor, indexed at the front. Listed up until sleeve 72, with some of these negatives missing upon accession to the archives. Further views that were not indexed by AJBW are not immediately identifiable.

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Negative Album inscribed on flyleaf 'Audrey from Johnny', 1902 - 1903

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/50
Scope and Contents

96 negatives of classical (mainly Hellenistic) sculpture in various Eurpean museum collections, views of Rome and also of the Wace family on the river in Cambridge. Index at the front written in pencil by AJBW.
Audrey Eugenia Bayard Wace (1882 -1959) was A. J. B. Wace's younger sister and Gaston Frederick Bayard Wace (1890-1950) his younger brother

Dates: 1902 - 1903
 Series — Carton NHPP 1/17/1

Rawson papers: Box 1, 1968 - 1988

Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
 Series — Carton NHPP 1/17/2

Rawson papers: Box 2, 1968 - 1988

Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
 Series — Carton NHPP 1/17/3

Rawson papers: Box 3, 1968 - 1988

Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
 Series — Carton NHPP 1/17/4

Rawson papers: Box 4, 1968 - 1988

Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
 Series — Carton NHPP 1/17/6

Rawson papers: Box 6, 1968 - 1988

Reference Code: GBR/3124/NHPP 1/17/6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-management:

See also Records of NH Members in NHPM 1 (especially files of press cuttings, cvs in NHPM1/1).

Dates: 1968 - 1988
 Fonds

Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3545-3555
Scope and Contents

Journals and notebooks of Hoare's extensive European tours, mainly through Italy.

Dates: 1785-1791
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Wace: The Papers of Alan John Bayard Wace (1879-1957), archaeologist

Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW
Scope and Contents These papers pertain to the work of archaeologist Professor Alan J. B. Wace which was undertaken by him in professional contexts other than Mycenae, Greece. This collection comprises archaeological notebooks dating in their majority prior to Wace's commencement of excavations at Mycenae in 1920, albums of photographs and photographic negatives of Mediterranean travels, maps of Greece, newspaper clippings pertainly to archaeological discoveries, correspondence on archaeological topics and the...
Dates: 1880-1973