LEADER 02774nam 22005655 450 001 9911047701003321 005 20251124120407.0 010 $a3-032-06839-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-06839-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32428365 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32428365 035 $a(CKB)43713272000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-06839-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9943713272000041 100 $a20251124d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Collections of Francis Douce, 1757-1834 $eA Community of Images /$fby Mercedes Cerón 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (372 pages) 225 1 $aHistory Series 311 08$a3-032-06838-X 327 $aCh 1: Introduction: the Douce papers -- Ch 2: A community of images -- Ch 3: Antiquarian networks -- Ch 4: Coincidences, chance, and gossip -- Ch 5: The problem with taxonomy -- Ch 6: Transmission as translation. 330 $aThis book explores the collections, the networks, and the methods of the antiquarian and scholar of the everyday Francis Douce (1757-1834). Throughout his life, Douce acquired rare books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, paintings, miscellaneous antiquities, and about 25,000 prints and drawings with a view to understand how people lived in the past and how they made sense of the world around them. The peculiarity of his collections is due partly to his favouring subject matter over any aesthetic consideration, and partly to his aim to create a repository of images to trace the circulation of themes and motifs across historical periods and geographical borders. From fools to witchcraft to the dance of death, Douce embraced themes, media, and forms of representation neglected or considered too coarse by most contemporary collectors. Mercedes Cerón is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Salamanca, Spain. 410 0$aHistory Series 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aArt$xHistory 606 $aCultural History 606 $aIntellectual History 606 $aArt History 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aArt$xHistory. 615 14$aCultural History. 615 24$aIntellectual History. 615 24$aArt History. 676 $a017.2 700 $aCerón$b Mercedes$01861442 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911047701003321 996 $aThe Collections of Francis Douce, 1757-1834$94467556 997 $aUNINA