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The Engraved Gems of Classical Times : With a Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum - J. Henry Middleton

The Engraved Gems of Classical Times

With a Catalogue of the Gems in the Fitzwilliam Museum

By: J. Henry Middleton

Paperback | 18 November 2010

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This monograph on classical engraved gems, which also contains a catalogue of the collection then held by the Fitzwilliam Museum, was published in 1891. J. Henry Middleton (1846 1896) was at the time the Director of the Museum and Slade Professor of Fine Art in Cambridge. His intention was to provide an introductory volume for students of archaeology which both traced the history of the use of engraved gemstones as seals and signets from Babylonian to classical times, described the techniques used to create these miniature works of art, and gave catalogue definitions, enhanced by photographic plates, of the Fitzwilliam collection, which had for the most part been donated by Colonel W. M. Leake (1777 1860), whose antiquarian interests had been aroused when he was sent to the eastern Mediterranean to assist the Turkish army against the French in the early nineteenth century."

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