Ancient World

Exhibition catalogues, artists books and printed ephemera relating to the ancient world: Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and the broader archaeological and art-historical record of antiquity. Objects in this collection document how ancient material culture has been excavated, interpreted, exhibited and circulated — from scholarly working catalogues produced for landmark museum exhibitions to publications that trace the political and institutional histories of archaeological discovery.

  • Small Sculptures in Bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950. Printed paper wrappers, front cover. Interior spread, pages 28–29. Renaissance bronzes including Venus figures by Bologna and Sansovino.

    SMALL SCULPTURES IN BRONZE — Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950

    Placed

    SMALL SCULPTURES IN BRONZE — Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950

    Placed
  • Toutankhamon et son temps, Petit Palais, Paris, 1967, laminated cover, close crop of Tutankhamun gold funerary mask, blue kohl eyes and nemes headdress Toutankhamon et son temps, 1967, interior p.114, Chaouabti de Toutankhamon, full scholarly entry with black-and-white photograph of gilded shabti figure

    CHRISTIANE DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT — Toutankhamon et son temps, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1967

    CHRISTIANE DESROCHES-NOBLECOURT — Toutankhamon et son temps, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1967

  • `Animals in Pre-Columbian Art — André Emmerich Gallery, New York — exhibition catalogue front cover. Black and white photograph of a Pre-Columbian ceramic effigy vessel: a squat, four-legged jar with a zoomorphic face — wide-set eyes, open mouth with teeth, and stubby limbs — on a grey ground. Yellow Strand Bookstore price sticker upper right ($15.00). Title in black sans-serif at foot: "ANIMALS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART".` `Animals in Pre-Columbian Art — André Emmerich Gallery — interior plate. Two catalogue entries. Top: Cat. no. 6, Owl, Mochica, North Coast of Peru, ca. 300 B.C.–A.D. 100. Cream and light brown pottery stirrup-spout vessel in the form of a seated owl with incised feather detail, 7" high. Bottom: Cat. no. 7, Female seal with cub, and mate, Mochica I, North Coast of Peru, ca. 500–200 B.C. Two dark grey pottery stirrup-spout vessels modelled as seals, 6½" and 7" high.`

    ANIMALS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART — André Emmerich Inc., New York, 1965

    ANIMALS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN ART — André Emmerich Inc., New York, 1965