Steve Miller
 
Miller, Steve
Miller, Steve
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Description: The Paston Treasure: Microcosm of the Known World
~In the posthumously published tract Musæum Clausum, or, Bibliotheca Abscondita (1684), the physician Sir Thomas Browne of Norwich (1605–1682) made an inventory of objects in an imaginary collection: “Remarkable Books, Antiquities, Pictures & Rarities of Several Kinds, Scarce or Never Seen by Any Man Now Living”....
PublisherYale Center for British Art