Dealer · Cataloguer
Bryce Wright
fl. 1869–1885 · United Kingdom
Mineralogist, active 1869–1885. Sold to Anna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt); wrote with Alfred Maskell.
Life and work
- 1885Commissioned by Annie Brassey to write the Catalogue Raisonne of the natural history, ethnological specimens and curiosities collected during the Sunbeam voyages 1876-1883 (London, Clowes) for the 1885 Hastings exhibition; the Cypriot objects, not yet complete, were listed separately by Alfred Maskell.
LondonTaylor 2001, p. 243
Connections
2 peopleSales, gifts & bequests
Fieldwork & employment
- Employed by Anna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt)1885
Scholarship
- Wrote with Alfred Maskell1885
- Catalogued the collection of Anna (Annie) Brassey, Baroness Brassey (née Allnutt)1885
Sources
- 1.Lou Taylor (2001). “Lady Brassey, 1870-1886: traveller, writer, collector, educator, woman of means and the fate of her Cypriot artefacts”. Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction, 239-247. Oxford, Oxbow.
- 2.B. Wright (1885). Catalogue Raisonné of the Natural History, Ethnological Specimens and Curiosities collected by Lady Brassey during the voyages of the 'Sunbeam' 1876-1883. London, William Clowes.
- 3.Bryce Wright (1869). “Advertisement: Minerals and Precious Stones, Mr. Bryce-Wright, 204 Regent Street”. Nature, 809. Online
- 4.Bryce Wright (1884). “Advertisement, Nature, 24 April 1884 (Bryce-Wright, 204 Regent Street)”. Nature 29, 237. Online