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DESCRIPTION:91ÉçÇø Rare Books and Special Collections is honoured to welcom
 e Dr. Kim Sloan\, curator of British Drawings and Watercolours at the Brit
 ish Museum\, for a special exhibition lecture to launch to our newest exhi
 bit 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them at 91ÉçÇø'.\n\nLecture descri
 ption: The vast collections of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)\, were the foun
 dations of three national institutions – the British Museum\, the Natural 
 History Museum and the British Library. A royal physician and natural phil
 osopher of insatiable curiosity\, secretary and president of the Royal Soc
 iety\, Sloane’s attempt to encompass the world and its knowledge through t
 he creation of an encyclopaedic collection to be left to the Nation was on
 e of the greatest acts of civic humanism in the Enlightenment. His collect
 ions of books\, manuscripts\, natural history\, art\, antiquities and ethn
 ographic materials from around the world were a pivotal site of knowledge 
 production and circulation. Sloane considered ‘The collection and accurate
  arrangement of these curiosities constituted my major contribution to the
  advancement of science.’ He personally classified\, cross-referenced and 
 documented his collections and correspondence network in around 50 manuscr
 ipt catalogues\, five of which have been the focus of a recent Leverhulme 
 Trust research project. This talk will briefly examine his life and its de
 termining factors\, recent efforts to reconstruct his collections (physica
 lly and virtually) with particular reference to his ‘Miscellaneous’ catalo
 gue\, before ending with an overview of Sloane’s 100 albums of over 20\,00
 0 drawings - his own ‘paper museum’. \n\nThis event is now full! Thank you
  for your interest.\n\n\nKim Sloan\, BA (UofT)\, PhD (London)\, F.S.A.\, h
 as been the curator of British Drawings and Watercolours at the British Mu
 seum since 1992 and has written several books on landscape drawing includi
 ng monographs on Alexander and John Robert Cozens (Yale 1986) and J.M.W. T
 urner (BM 1998) as well as studies of Victorian painting in the Beaverbroo
 k Art Gallery (1989) and A Noble Art: Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters1
 600-1800 (BM 2000). In 2003 she was also appointed the Francis Finlay Cura
 tor of the Enlightenment Gallery and her books and exhibitions at the BM h
 ave included Vases and Volcanoes and In Search of Classical Greece (1996 a
 nd 2013\, both with Ian Jenkins)\, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in
  the 18th century (2003)\, A New World: England’s first view of America (2
 006) and The Intimate Portrait (2013\; with the Scottish NPG). She co-conv
 enes an MA on 18th century studies with King’s College London and is Princ
 iple Investigator on a Leverhulme Research Project on Sir Hans Sloane’s ma
 nuscript catalogues of his collection. The exhibition to accompany Places 
 of the Mind: British landscape watercolours and drawings 1850-1950 (Thames
  & Hudson) in the Prints and Drawings gallery in the British Museum (Feb- 
 Aug. 2017) attracted over 400\,000 visitors.\n\n\nThis event is funded by 
 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Insights D
 evelopment Grant Program.\n
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LOCATION:Rare Books and Special Collections\, 4th floor\, Colgate Room\, Mc
 Lennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Exhibit opening lecture | Collecting the world to know the world: r
 econstructing the meta-data of the Enlightenment through Sir Hans Sloane’s
  paper tools and objects
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