History of Museums | Quizlet

View of the Gartenhof at Schloss Glienicke (1824-1828) by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, showing

portions of the southern wall and the western wall. Photographed by the Author, July 2

James Gillray, A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique, 1801,

hand-colored etching, 34.8 x 25.5 cm, published by Hannah Humphrey,

collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022.309

1994

- Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Museo Cospiano, 1667, etching, 28.6 x 44.5 cm, title plate from

Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria

dall'Ill. Sig. Ferdinando Cospi ... descrizione di Lorenzo Legati, Cremonese, Bologna

(Giacomo Monti) 1667. Collection of the British Museum, London, 1852,0612.4

Aldrovandi's Room at the Museum of Palazzo Poggi, Bologna - Carved xylographic matrices for printing

from Aldrovandi's workshop, sixteenth century

Museum of Palazzo Poggi, Bologn

Aldrovandi's Herbarium, from left to right:

Purple viper's-bugloss, vol. 10, carta 58

Milkvetch, vol. 10, carta 59

Broad-leaved anemone, vol. 5, carta 14

sixteenth century

Collection of the Bologna Botanic Garden and Herbarium

-

A monstrous toad specimen

from Aldrovandi's collection

Museum of Palazzo Pogg

Musaeum Calceolarii, 1622, drawn by Bapt. Bertonus,

engraved by Hieronymus Viscardus, frontispiece for

Musaeum Franc. CalceolarI iun. Veronensis a

Benedicto Ceruto medico incaeptum, : et ab Andrea

Chiocco med. Physio excellentiss. ... Verona, 1622.

From the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford,

Ashm. 1695.

A virtual, 3-dimensional reconstruction of the Musaeum Calceolarii in Verona,

on display at the Museo di Storia Naturale, Verona, December 2022

The V&A East Storehouse, designed by DS+R, opened on the 31st of May, 2025

Unknown artist, engraving of the library of Zacharia Conrad von Uffenbach in the Bibliotheca

Uffenbachiana Universalis Sive Catalogus Librorum, published in Frankfurt am Main, 1729-1731.

LEFT: Lower jawbone of a horse fused with the trunk of an oak tree, as illustrated in Olaus Worm,

Museum Wormianum (Leiden: Isaac Elzevier, 1655), engraved by G. Wingendorp, 1655.

: Iroquois wooden pipe from Ole Worm's collection, dating from before 1653, now in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark [no. E.Dc16

LEFT: Rosamund Purcell, One Room, re-creation of the Museum Wormianum, first exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art,

May 17 - August 9, 2003, since 2011 on permanent display at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

The studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence,

created between 1570 and 1575. Photograph from the Web Gallery of Art,

photographer unknown.

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (1523-1605), Francesco I

de' Medici's Alchemical Laboratory, 1570. Oil on slate. Studiolo

di Francesco I de' Medici, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Alchemical Furnace of Augustus, Elector of Saxony, made in Dresden, ca.

1575, brass, steel, and chamotte, 37.8 x 34.5 x 34.5 cm, collection of the

Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (40 919)

The Pomeranian Art Cabinet, commissioned by the Augsburg art dealer

Philip Hainhofer for Duke Philip II of Pomerania, completed in 1617.

In the collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,

since 1876. Seen here in a photograph by an unknown photographer,

plate II from Lessing, Julius and Adolf Brüning, Der Pommersche

Kunstschrank (Ernst Wasmuth A.-G., 1905).

Anton Mozart, Die Übergabe des Pommerschen

Kunstschranks (The Handover of the Pomeranian

Art Cabinet), 1614-1615, oil on oak panel, 39.5 x

45.4 cm, collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum,

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, [P 183 a]

Cristofano Allori, Archduchess Maria

Magdalena of Austria-Styria, 1609-

1610, oil on canvas, 218 x 140 cm, Museo Del Prado, Madrid -

The Stipo Tedesco (or Stipo d'Alemagna),

1619-1625, Tesoro dei Granduchi, Palazzo

Pitti, Florence, 200 x 137 x 93 cm. -

The Gustavus Adolphus art cabinet,

1626-1631, Museum Gustavianum,

Uppsala, Sweden.

Willem Isaacsz Swanenburg, engraved by

Jan Cornelisz. van 't Woudt, Theatrum

Anatomicum (the anatomical theatre of

Leiden University), 1610, collection of the

Rijksprentenkabinet, RP-P-1894-A-18588.

LEFT: Cornelis Boemaert,

Portrait of Athanasius Kircher

at the age of 62, 1664,

engraving, 28.2 x 18 cm,

collection of the Rijksmuseum.

Frontispiece for the Giorgio de Sepibus, Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum

Celeberriumum ... printed by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Amsterdam, 1678.

LEFT: Athanasius Kircher's wooden model of the Flaminio Obelisk, precise date unknown, on view in the " Barocco Globale" exhibition

at the Scuderie del Quirinale this summer, collection of the Wunder Musaeum del Liceo Visconti, Rome.

RIGHT: The Flaminio Obelisk, ca. 1300 BCE, installed in the Piazza del Popolo.

LEFT: Giovanni Angelo Canini, engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert, Frontispiece from Athanasius Kircher, Obeliscus Pamphilius, hoc est,

Interpretatio noua & hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici ... Rome, printed by Ludovico Grignani, 1650.

RIGHT: The obelisk incorporated in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome.

Title page, and detail from Athanasius Kircher, Physiologia Kircheriana

Experimentalis ... printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius van

Waesberge, 1680.

East façade, Ashmolean Museum (Musei Ashmoleani

pars orientalis," drawn, engraved and sold by

Michael Burghers, 1685, collection of the Museum

of the History of Science, University of Oxford,

inventory no. 35531.

F. Mackenzie, engraved by J. Le Keux, The Ashmolean Museum viewed from the north-east, 1834, 16.1 x 15.7 cm,

collection of the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, inventory no. 35531.

Plan of the Ashmolean Museum (LEFT) and the building as it appears today, now

the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford. Photograph, 21 March,

2006.

Emmanuel de Critz (attributed to), John Tradescant the Younger and Hester, his second Wife, ca. 1656, oil on canvas,

72 x 118 cm, presented by Elias Ashmole in 1683, collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, WA1898.

John Tradescant [Elias Ashmole and Thomas Wharton],

Musaeum Tradescantianum: Or, a Collection of Rarities Preserved At South

- Lambeth neer London, John Grismond, London

1656 (LEFT) and The Tradescant's House at South Lambeth (with the House of Elias

Ashmole behind), originally published by C. G. Dyer of Compton Street, Soho, here used

as an illustration in Thomas Allen,

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth

J. Allen, London 1827, between pp. 392 and 393.

Installation view, Josiah McElheny, Libraries, James Cohan

[Gallery], 291 Grand St, New York City, April 17-June 12, 2021.

- Josiah McElheny, From the Library of Interplanetary Harmonies, 2021, hand-blown, cut, polished, and mirrored glass; low-iron mirror and two-way mirror; electric light; walnut frame, 67.9 x 135.3 x 49.2

George Ravenscroft and the Savoy

Glasshouse, Ravenscroft Bowl, 1676-77, lead

glass, mould-blown, with ribbing, 10.3 x 26.3

cm, collection of the Victoria & Albert

Museum, London, C.529-1936.

Plate I "Glass-Working at a Wood-Fired

Furnace," in Denis Diderot and Jean Le

Rond d'Alembert, Encyclopédie ou

Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des

arts et des mêtiers, vol. 10, (plates),

Paris: Briasson, 1765. Drawn by Radel,

engraved by Benard.

Plates VII, X, XV showing procedures in "Glass-Working at a Wood-Fired Furnace," in Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert,

Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des mêtiers, vol. 10, (plates), Paris: Briasson, 1765.

Frederik Ruysch, Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica, vol. 1 (Amsterdam,

[1725]), frontispiece. From the collection of the Wellcome Library.

LEFT: Jan van Neck, Anatomische les van Dr. Frederick Ruysch, 1683, oil on canvas, 141 x 203 cm, collection of the Amsterdam Museum,

SA 2644.

RIGHT: Fig. 1, Pag. 136 Cat in Frederik Ruysch, Opera omnia anatomico-medico-chirurgica, vol. 1 (Amsterdam, [1725]), frontispiece.

From the collection of the University of Heidelberg.

LEFT: Jan van Neck, Anatomische les van Dr. Frederick Ruysch, 1683, oil on canvas, 141 x 203 cm, collection of the Amsterdam Museum,

SA 2644.

RIGHT: Rachel Ruysch, Vase with Flowers, 1700, oil on canvas, 79.5 x 60.2 cm, collection of the Mauritshuis.

Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris, Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain,

1658, oil on panel, 46.5 × 63.9 cm, collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.585.

Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, On the growth of plants in closely glazed cases,

London: J. Van Voorst, [1842] second edition, 1852, pages 21, 35, and 71.

Frederik Ruysch, Thesaurus animalium primus (Amsterdam, 1710), table I, II, and IV.

From the collection of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Washington D.C.

Title page and two plates from James

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani Centuria

Prima ... London, S. Smith & B.

Walford, 1695. Engraving by I. Savage.

Collection of the Netherlands

Entomological Society, Naturalis

Biodiversity Center.

Catalogus musei indici continens varia exotica, tum animalia, tum vegetabilia, nativam

figuram servantia, singula in liquore balsamico asservata (Leiden, 1711).

James Petiver, "Brief Directions for the Easie Making and

Preserving Collections Collections of all Natural Curiosities,"

London, ca. 1709.

Wenceslaus Hollar, frontispiece to

Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal

Society, London, 1667.

Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis (London, 1681), title page and frontispiece,

Jean-Baptiste Martin, Une assemblée ordinaire de l'Académie royale

de Peinture et de Sculpture au Louvre, c. 1712-1721, oil on canvas,

30 x 43 cm, collection of the Musée du Louvre.

- Henry Singleton, The Royal Academicians in General Assembly,

1795, oil on canvas, 20 cm, width, collection of the Royal

Academy of Arts, 03/1310.

Jacques Bertaux, Destruction of the Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV, 1792. Pen

and ink drawing, Musée du Louvre, Paris. -

Pierre Joseph Célestin François, Portrait de l'abbé

Grégoire, 1800, oil on canvas, 130.5 x 98 cm, collection of

the Musée Lorrain.

Hubert Robert, La Violation des caveaux des

rois dans la basilique de Saint-Denis, en

octobre 1793, ca. 1793, oil on canvas, 37 x 45.8

cm, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, P1477

Langlois du Pont de l'Arche (etching) after a painting by François Gabriel

Théodore Basset de Jolimont, Henry IV Exhumed, before 1837, collection of

the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Unknown artist, Alexandre Lenoir Defends Monuments from the Fury of Terrorists, 18th century, black ink and

brown ink with pen and wash on paper, 23.9 x 35.5 cm, collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Alexandre Lenoir, The Remains of Louis VIII, Exhumed from His Tomb in 1793, 1793, brown ink pen and wash,

watercolor, on paper, 52.4 x 40.5 cm, collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

George Cruikshank, "Seizing the Italian Relics," The Life of Napoleon. A

Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, 1815.

"Transfer of the ashes of Voltaire to the French Panthéon," (in 1791) engraving

by Claude Nicolas Malapeau and Simon-Charles Miger after a watercolor by

Jean Jacques Lagrenée, printed in Paris in 1795. -

François Joseph Heim, Portrait of Antoine-

Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849),

1825, Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Pierre-Gabriel Berthault, Entrée triomphale des monuments des sciences et arts en France;

Fête à ce sujet. (Triumphal entry of monuments of science and art into France), engraving,

1802, Collection Hennin, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Manufacture Impériale de Sèvres (Jean Charles Nicolas Brachard, Antoine

Beranger and Valois Achille Joseph Etienne), Entrée à Paris des oeuvres

destinées au Musée Napoléon (Entrance into Paris of the Works destined

for the Musée Napoléon), volute krater, 1810-1814, porcelain, 127.2 cm x

64.9 cm, Musée Nationale de Ceramique Sèvres.

Marie-Geneviève, Alexandre Lenoir, ca. 1796, oil on canvas,

collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

- François Joseph Heim, Portrait of Antoine-

Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849),

1825, Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Pierre Joseph Lafontaine, Alexandre Lenoir Opposing the Destruction of the Royal

Tombs in the Church of St. Denis, 1793, pen, ink and gouache on paper, 27.8 x 23.2

cm, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Pierre Joseph Lafontaine, Alexandre Lenoir Opposing

the Destruction of the Royal Tombs in the Church of

St. Denis, 1793, pen, ink and gouache on paper, 27.8

x 23.2 cm, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Unknown artist, 15th-century Hall at the Musée

des Monuments Français, 1810-1820, oil on

canvas, 123.5 x 103.5 cm, collection of the Musée

Carnavalet, Paris.

Antonio and Giovanni Giusti (also called Juste),

attributed to, The Tomb of Louis XII and Anne of

Brittany, 1531, restored and reinstalled in the

Basilica of Saint-Denis, Paris.

Plan du musée des monuments francais from Jean-

Baptiste Réville (etching), Jacques Lavallée

(engraving), after a design by Jean Lubin Vauzelle,

Vues Pittoresques et Perspectives des Salles du

Musée des Monuments François ... Paris: P. Didot,

1816.

Jean Lubin Vauzelle, Vue de la salle

d'introduction au Musée des

Monuments français, 1815 unknown,

watercolor, 34.4 x 44.2 cm, collection

of the Musée du Louvre,

Département des Arts graphiques, RF

28831.

Jean Lubin Vauzelle, Salle

du XIIIè siècle au Musée

des Monuments français,

date unknown, watercolor,

52.5 x 37.5 cm, collection

of the Musée du Louvre,

Département des Arts

graphiques, RF 5279.19.

Charles-Marie Bouton, La salle du XIVe siècle au

Musée des Monuments français, ca. 1810, oil on

canvas, collection of the Musée Carnavalet,

Paris, P1372.

Jean-Lubin Vauzelle, Salle du XV° siècle

au Musée des Monuments français,

date unknown, brown ink with pen,

watercolor, 34.1 x 42.7 cm, collection

of the Musée du Louvre, Département

des Arts graphiques, RF 28833.

Unknown artist, Salle du XVIè

siècle au Musée des

Monuments français, date

unknown (nineteenth century),

brown ink with pen,

watercolor, 52.5 x 37.5 cm,

collection of the Musée du

Louvre, Département des Arts

graphiques, RF 5279.30.

Unknown artist, Salle du XVIIè siècle au Musée des Monuments français,

date unknown (nineteenth century), brown ink with pen, watercolor, 52.5

x 37.5 cm, collection of the Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts

graphiques, RF 5279.31.

Hubert Robert, Vue de la salle d'introduction au

Musée des Monuments français, ca. 1800, oil on

canvas, 38.5 x 46 cm, collection of the Kunsthalle

Bremen, 854-1962/5.