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Article: Sir Hans Sloane as a collector of small sculpture.
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- February 1, 2004
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The new permanent exhibition in the old Kings Library of the British Museum, 'Enlightenment: Discovering the world in the 18th century' (1) is presided over in many senses by the genius of that archetypal Enlightenment figure, Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) (Fig. 1), the acquisition of whose collections by the British nation led to the establishment of the British Museum two and a half centuries ago. The surviving elements of Sir Hans's enormous and wide-ranging collections are today distributed over not only every one of the British Museum's eight curatorial Departments, but also over two independent institutions born out of the British Museum--the Natural History Museum ...
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