Costly ambition : the collections of Ashton Lever

Author

Lever, Raymond

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Country life. 1989, Num. 34, Vol. 183, p. 82, 1 ill.

ISSN

0045-8856

Abstract (en)

Account of Ashton Lever's wide-ranging cabinet of curiosities which he opened as a museum--the Leverian Museum--in Leicester House, London, in 1775. The collection was moved to another location upon Lever's death in 1788 and was sold in 1806.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- United Kingdom
• Lever, Ashton, 1729-1788
• Collections
• Cabinets of curiosities
• Collectors
• Great Britain
• 1700-1800
• Leicester House (Leicester Square)||London (GBR)
• Museums

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Royaume-Uni
• Lever, Ashton, 1729-1788
• Collections
• Cabinet de curiosités
• Collectionneurs
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-1800
• Leicester House (Leicester Square)||London (GBR)
• Musée

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00456650

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