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SUMMARY:A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection - Sp
 ike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum)
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CONTACT:Sebestian Kroupa
DESCRIPTION:This talk will consider some aspects of a seventeenth-century 
 collection of natural history\, paintings\, literature and musical instrum
 ents that was housed at Oxnead in North Norfolk in the seventeenth century
 . The collection was assembled by Sir William Paston and his son\, Robert 
 Paston\, both of whom were famed for their hospitality and learning. The c
 ollection's core included objects obtained on Grand Tours and fabricated f
 rom materials derived from the Americas\, Pacific\, China and India. The f
 ull extent of the collection is known only through house inventories and a
 uction lists\, since it was dispersed by Robert Paston\, 1st Earl of Yarmo
 uth and his son\, William Paston\, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth. Approximately 1% 
 of the collection's items were depicted in a monumental still-life paintin
 g of c.1664. The talk will outline the nature of exchanges implied by the 
 collection and its painting.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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