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OverviewPresents the findings from new specialist studies of the Waddesdon Bequest, a collection of nearly 300 objects from the New Smoking Room at Waddesdon Manor, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1898 by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pippa Shirley , Dora ThorntonPublisher: British Museum Press Imprint: British Museum Press Volume: 212 ISBN: 9780861592128ISBN 10: 0861592123 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 June 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPippa Shirley is Head of Collections and Gardens at Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust house managed by the Rothschild Foundation in Buckinghamshire which is home to the Rothschild Collections of art and decorative arts. Before this she was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, specialising in silver, and at the British Museum, working on the medieval collections. Dr Dora Thornton works at the British Museum as Curator of the Waddesdon Bequest and Renaissance Europe. She specialises in and and has published widely on Renaissance Italy. Most recently she curated the British Museum exhibition, Shakespeare: Staging the World. She is now working on a new permanent gallery for the Waddesdon Bequest, which will open in 2015. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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