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- Title
Pots, Prints, Poems, Plants and Publishers in Roscoe's Liverpool.
- Authors
Brooke, Xanthe
- Abstract
At the beginning of the nineteenth-century William Roscoe (1753-1831) was Liverpool's cultural impresario, the city's leading art collector, and an internationally known biographer of Lorenzo de Medici and Pope Leo X. He had helped establish a succession of Liverpool's exhibiting societies and learned or scientific institutions, culminating in the Liverpool Royal Institution, whose core collections of early Renaissance paintings were provided, ironically, as a result of his forced sale in September 1816, a failed attempt to stave off bankruptcy. I show in this paper how such international fame made Liverpool a destination for cultural tourism in the early 19th century, and how Roscoe's collection attracted worldwide attention from artists, authors, art historians and scientists as well as the general public.
- Subjects
ROSCOE, William, 1753-1831; HERITAGE tourism; ART exhibitions
- Publication
Questione Romantica, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1/2, p107
- ISSN
1125-0364
- Publication type
Article