The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo

The Royal Collection

Exhibition partner, 2019

“During the course of the seventeenth century, the Roman patron and collector Cassiano dal Pozzo and his younger brother Carlo Antonio assembled a 'Paper Museum' of c.10,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, covering antiquities, architecture, zoology, botany and geology, and (among the prints) social customs and ceremonies, costumes, portraits, topography and military maps. The collection was one of the most significant attempts before the age of photography to embrace human knowledge in visual form. Most of the Dal Pozzo collection was acquired by George III in 1762, as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani.”

Original items from the paper museum featured along with rare books from the Cadbury Research Library and nd geological specimens from the Lapworth Museum in an exhibition 'The Paper Museum: the Curious Eye of Cassiano dal Pozzo' at the Barber between 14 June - 1 September 2019.

The exhibition was the second in an annual collaboration between the Barber and Royal Collection Trust co-curated by MA Art History and Curating students. 

Although the volumes have classmarks they are all shelved together in volume order next to the journals.

Series A: Antiquities and Architecture

Series Editor: Amanda Claridge

  • I Ancient mosaics and wallpaintings / by Helen Whitehouse (2001)
  • II Early Christian and Medieval antiquities / by John Osborne and Amanda Claridge
    • Volume 1: Mosaics and wallpaintings in Roman Churches (1996)
    • Volume 2: Other mosaics, sarcophagi and small objects (1998)
  • III Sarcophagi and other reliefs / by Amanda Claridge and Eloisa Dodero (2022)
    • Volume 1: Sarcophagi (1-237) --
    • Volume 2: Sarcophagi (238-304) -- Other funerary monuments (305-377) -- Altars, bases, and puteals (378-451) -- Marble candelabra and vases (452-478) -- Panel reliefs and friezes (479-569) -- Architectural terracottas (570-633) --
    • Volume 3: Votive reliefs 634-650) -- Reliefs from monuments of Rome (651-790) -- Copies after other drawings (791-843) -- Acquired drawings (844-1030) --
    • Volume 4: Modern reliefs and designs (1031-1055) -- Watermarks -- Concordances -- Appendix : documents relating to this catalogue -- Collections in Rome. 
  • IV Statues and busts / by Amanda Claridge and Eloisa Dodero 
  • V The ‘Antichità diverse’ album /by Elena Vaiani (2016) 
  • VI Classical manuscript illustrations / by Amanda Claridge and Ingo Herklotz (2012)
  • VII Ancient inscriptions by William Stenhouse (2002)  
  • VIII Egyptian and Roman antiquities and Renaissance decorative arts / by Elena Vaiani,  et al. (2018) 
  • IX Ancient Roman topography and architecture / by Ian Campbell with contributions by Lynda Fairbairn, David Hemsoll, Arnold Nesselrath and Johannes Röll (2004) 
    • Volume 1. Drawings by Francesco di Giorgio, Ligorio, Labasco, Dosio and four anonymous sixteenth-century draughtsmen 
    • Volume 2. Drawings by Montano and early seventeenth-century draughtsmen 
    • Volume 3. Dal Pozzo accessions in the later seventeenth century and miscellaneous earlier drawings 
  • X Renaissance and later architecture and ornament / by Paul Davies and David Hemsoll, with contributions by Ian Campbell, Simon Pepper and Johannes Röll (2013) 
    • Volume 1. Drawings from the Architectura Civile album and other architectural drawings
    • Volume 2. Decorative schemes and military subjects.

 

Series B: Natural History

Series Editor: Martin Clayton

  • I Citrus fruit / by David Freedberg and Enrico Baldini (1997)
  • II Fungi by David Pegler and David Freedberg (2006)
    • Volume 1. Institut de France MS 968 
    • Volume 2. Institut de France MS 969 
    • Volume 3. Institut de France MS 970; Drawings in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
  • III Fossil woods and other geological specimens / by Andrew C. Scott and David Freedberg (2000) 
  • IV–V Birds, other animals and natural curiosities / by Henrietta McBurney, Ian Rolfe, Caterina Napoleone, and Paula Findlen, with Carlo Violani, Onno Wijnands, Arturo Morales-Muñiz, Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo, Arthur McGregor, and Kathie Way (2017)  
    • Volume 1. Birds
    • Volume 2. Other animals and natural curiosities 
  • VI Flora: The 'Erbario Miniato' and other drawings /by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Fabio Garbari (2007)
    • 2 volumes
  • VII Flora: Federico Cesi’s'  botanical manuscripts / by Brent Elliott with contributions by Luigi Guerrini and David Pegler (2015) NC815 .E45
    • 3 volumes
  • VIII Flora: The Aztec herbal / by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini and Alejandro de Ávila. (2009) 

Series C: Prints

Series Editor: Martin Clayton

  • I Ceremonies, costumes, portraits and genre / by Mark McDonald (2017)  
    • Volume 1. The 'Depositi e funerali, processioni e feste' and 'Charles III cérémonies funèbres' albums in the British Library and the 'Dutch drolls' album in the Royal Library 
    • Volume 2. The 'Popish ceremonies I and 'Collection of dresses' albums in the British Library, and the portrait prints in the Royal Library 
    • Volume 3. Portrait prints in the Royal Library, dispersed prints and Orsini portrait drawings  
  • II Architecture topography and military maps / by Mark McDonald (2019) 
    • Volume 1. The 'Templa Diversa Romae, Templa Diversa, Popish Ceremonies II and Palazzi di Roma I' albums in the British Library 
    • Volume 2. The 'Palazzi di Roma II, Palazzi de Genova, Antiquitates Romanae and Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae' albums and the King's Topographical Collection in the British Library, and the King's Military Collection in the Royal Library 
    • Volume 3. The King's Military Collection and other military prints in the Royal Library and dispersed prints