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Critic / journalist · Scholar · Patron

Sidney Colvin

1845–1927 · United Kingdom

Art historian and critic. Worked with Charles Newton and Stephen Thompson.

Life and work

  1. 1873
    Wrote the introduction 'The Antiquities discovered in Cyprus by General di Cesnola' to the folio album The Antiquities of Cyprus (36 photographs by Stephen Thompson, selected by C. T. Newton, printed by W. A. Mansell and Co., London); the antiquities were exhibited by Rollin and Feuardent at 61 Great Russell Street. His text says the collection was 'purchased for the sum of 10,000 pounds by the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of New York'.

    LondonMarangou 2000Masson 1996, p. 8

Connections

5 people
Luigi Palma di CesnolaMansellCharles NewtonGaston Louis FeuardentStephen ThompsonSidney Colvin
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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.S. Colvin (1873). “Introduction”. The Antiquities of Cyprus, discovered (principally on the sites of the ancient Golgoi and Idalium), 1-4. London, W. A. Mansell and Co..
  2. 2.A. G. Marangou (ed.) (2000). The Consul Luigi Palma di Cesnola 1832-1904: Life and Deeds.
  3. 3.Olivier Masson (1996). “La dispersion des antiquités chypriotes: les deux collections Cesnola”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 25, 3-32. Online
  4. 4.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
  5. 5.Anna Holly Reeve (2021). “Ancient Cyprus in Leeds: Objects, Networks and Museums from 1870 to 1947”. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
  6. 6.Wikidata. Sidney Colvin (Q1620836). Online
  7. 7.Salomon Reinach (1891). Chroniques d'Orient.
  8. 8.S. Colvin (1921). Memories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-1912. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons.