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- Title
Marryat's Burmese curiosities.
- Authors
Isaacs, Ralph
- Abstract
A manuscript catalogue of Captain Frederick Marryat's collection of Burmese curiosities, dated February 1829, was discovered in 2008 at the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS). This paper compares the contents and arrangement of the lists in the RAS catalogue, of which a full transcript is given, with those in Marryat's own manuscript catalogue, enclosed with a letter to the trustees of the British Museum dated 2 December 1826, in which he offered his entire collection to the Museum. When the trustees declined his offer, Marryat arranged that his collection should be displayed in the Bond Street rooms of the RAS. Additional numbers accompanying many entries in the RAS catalogue may throw light on the origin, purpose and authorship of this catalogue. It is postulated here that the additional numbers derive from yet another list, probably the missing ‘descriptive catalogue’ composed by the orientalist and student of Buddhism Edward Upham, who gave three talks based upon it to members of the RAS in November and December 1827.
- Subjects
MYANMAR; MARRYAT, Frederick; CURIOSITIES &; wonders; BRITISH Museum; UPHAM, Edward; BUDDHISM &; art; ART catalogs; BURMESE antiquities
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/fhp029