Victorian Archaeology (original) (raw)
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We must collate and combine; ever the spade in one hand, the book in the other. -- John Kemble, The Archaeological Journal (1855)
Introduction to Victorian Archaeology
- Introduction
- Excavators, Artifacts, Politics
- Beyond Heroic Narratives and Splendid Artifacts
- Archaeology in Victorian Popular Culture and Visual Art
- Archaeology as a Discipline
- Bibliography
Leading British Figures and Foreign Archaeologists Who Made Presentations in the U.K.
- Samuel Birch (1813-1885)
- Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878)
- E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934)
- James Burton (1786-1862)
- Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893)
- Maud Cunnington (1869-1951)
- Amelia Edwards (1831-1892)
- •••Howard Carter (1874-1939)
- Nathan Davis (1812-1882)
- Arthur Evans (1851-1941)
- Sir John Evans (1823-1908)
- Jane Harrison (1850-1928)
- John Mitchell Kemble (1807-1857)
- Austen Henry Layard (1815-1894)/li>
- •••Margaret Murray (1863–1963)
- John Marshall (1876-1958)
- Sir Charles Newton (bap. 1816-1894)
- John Henry Parker (1806-1884)
- Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (1791-1865)
- Flinders Petrie (1853-1942)
- Hormuzd Rassam (1826-1910)
- Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895)
- R. Grove Rowe
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890)
- Charles Roach Smith (1807-1890)
- George Smith (1840-1876)
- •••Eugénie Sellers Strong (1860-1943)
- Thomas Wright (1810-1877)
- Other People Active in Archaeology
Archaeology in Victorian Literature and Popular Culture
- Archaeology in the Victorian Popular Press
- William Simpson’s Drawings of Greece for The Illustrated London News
- Oscar Wilde’s “The Sphinx” and Victorian Egyptomania
- •••Mummies in Victorian Popular Culture
- The Egyptian Court at the Sydenham Crystal Palace (1854)
- Reception of Nineveh Sculptures at the British Museum (1852)
- •••Antiquity in the Novels of H. Rider Haggard
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii
Archaeology in Victorian Visual Art
- Victorianized Romans: Images of Rome in Victorian Painting
- The Elgin Marbles, Polychromy, and Ancient Greek Art as an Aesthetic Ideal
- An Egyptian Girl with a Sistrum (1886) by Longsden Long (1829-1891)
- Paintings of Egypt and the Holy Land by David Roberts
- Drawing of Boreas and Oreithyia (1865) by (Ann) Mary Newton
- Paintings of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome by Laurence Alma-Tadema
- Paintings of the classical world by John Collier
- Painting of the classical world by Lord Leighton
- Feeding the Sacred Ibis in the Halls of Karnac
- Lady Dufferin's comic take on Egyptian antiquities
- Christiana Herringham and the Ajanta Frescoes
Related Material
- Sites, Excavations, Artifacts
- Victorian Institutions Associated with Archaeology
- Victorian Egyptomania
- The Zodiac at Dendera and the debate over the age of the earth
- Lady Layard's Jewelry
- Victorian Jewelry in the Egyptian Style