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Archaeological illustrations: a new development in 19th century science1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Serge Lewuillon*
Affiliation:
Techniques de l'Archéologie en Europe, Université d'Artois, 9 rue du Temple, BP 665, 62030 Arras cédex, France. tae.lewuillon@wanadoo.fr

Extract

A museum on paper

A recent colloquium on French archaeology in the second half of the 19th century drew attention to the work of a talented illustrator, Victor Caucheiné, several of whose watercolours may be seen at the niuseuni in Compiègne. Additional research, intended to place this painterarchaeologist in historical context, showed that his situation was not unique and that, during the same period, in France well as elsewhere in Europe, there was a surge of interest in reproductions of objects and of archaeological sites. This is not to be confused with the fashion for romantic landscapes, of which Baron Taylor's Voyuges dons l'ancienne France serves as a good example (Adhémar 1997), nor with the passion for monuments, as shown by the imposing collection of Laborde (Laborde 1816-1836). Rather, this activity was the doing of an archaeological school which, for three-quarters of a century, set out to explore the meaning of archaeological excavation and their associated finds.

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Special section: Ancestral Archives: Explorations in the History of Archaeology
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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