Kagan, Julia: British engraved gems XIV - XX centuries. Catalogue of the collection : The State Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg: 2015. 276 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback. 22 x 27cms. Features the full Hermitage collection of cameos and intaglios made by British artists XIV-XX centuries. The collection includes 345 works, many of which were acquired by Empress Catherine II. Includes works attributed to Richard Atsill, Nicolas Hilliard, Thomas Rawlins, Tomas Simon, Edward Burch, N Nathaniel Marchant, and William and Charles Brown, as well as copies and imitation gems. Text in Russian & English.
Features the full Hermitage collection of cameos and intaglios made by British artists XIV-XX centuries. The collection includes 345 works, many of which were acquired by Empress Catherine II. Includes works attributed to Richard Atsill, Nicolas Hilliard, Thomas Rawlins, Tomas Simon, Edward Burch, N Nathaniel Marchant, and William and Charles Brown, as well as copies and imitation gems. Text in Russian & English
Boardman, Sir John : Julia Kagan : Claudia Wagner & Catherine Phillips
Reference : 117073
(2017)
ISBN : 9781784917272
Boardman, Sir John : Julia Kagan : Claudia Wagner & Catherine Phillips: Natter's Museum Britannicum: British gem collections and collectors of the mid-eighteenth century. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. iv, 304 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Hard cover. 29 x 21cms. Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects.
Ex libris Professor Sir John Boardman, the book illustrates Lorenz Natter's 'Museum Britannicum', an 18th century catalogue of drawings and descriptions of ancient and later engraved gems in British collections. Natter's archive was thought to be lost until it was discovered by Oleg Neverov in the 1970s. The work presents Natter's drawings and comments alongside modern information on the gems and where possible colour photographs of the objects.