Museum

Pitt Rivers's private museum, Farnham

Farnham, United Kingdom · founded 1885

Museum in Farnham, founded 1885. 1 person in the register connected with it.

The Cypriot collection

Held the 'Second Collection' of A. H. L. F. Pitt Rivers, including most of his Lawrence-Cesnola purchases; dispersed from the 1950s (1991)

Brown 1991

History

  1. 1885
    Pitt Rivers built a private museum (Farnham, Dorset) for his Second Collection, after the First Collection (c. 200 Cypriot items) went to Oxford from 1884.

    Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt RiversBrown 1991Ulbrich & Kiely 2012

  2. 1950–1966
    Legal problems meant heirs treated the museum as private property; sales began in the 1950s and the museum closed after George Pitt Rivers died in 1966; later anonymous Sotheby's sales followed in the 1960s-70s.

    Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt RiversKiely 2021, pp. 57-58Brown 1991Kiely 2017

People

1 person

Staff and members · 1

Objects

  • Limestone potter and dog-and-hare group, later via Charles Ede Ltd to the British Museum

    Kiely 2021, pp. 57-58

Sources

  1. 1.A. Brown (1991). “A note on the two collections founded by General Pitt Rivers”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 15, 29-30.
  2. 2.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
  3. 3.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online
  4. 4.T. Kiely (2021). “Cipro, fra Torino e Londra. I Cesnola e il British Museum / Cyprus, From Turin to London. The Cesnolas and the British Museum”. Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations, 52-58.