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- Title
Collecting on campaign: British soldiers in China during the Opium Wars.
- Authors
Hill, Katrina
- Abstract
The controversial sack of Yuanmingyuan during the Second Opium War in 1860 brought large quantities of imperial art to Western Europe for the first time. The article looks at this event within the wider context of military collecting throughout the Opium Wars – documented in soldiers’ memoirs, auction house records and museum inventories – to determine men’s tastes and collecting practices during twenty years of operations in China and the impact they had on this extraordinary historical event.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ART treasures in war; HISTORY of art &; war; CHINESE art -- History; CHINESE jades; ENGLISH soldiers' writings; AUCTION houses; YUAN Ming Yuan (Beijing, China); 19TH century Chinese history; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of the History of Collections, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0954-6650
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1093/jhc/fhr039