The Paston Treasure, a spectacular painting from the 1660s now held at Norwich Castle Museum, depicts a wealth of objects from the collection of a local landed family. This deeply researched volume uses the painting as a portal to the history of the collection, exploring the objects, their context, and the wider world they occupied. Drawing on an impressive range of fields, including history of art and collections, technical art history, musicology, history of science, and the social and cultural history of the 17th century, the book weaves together narratives of the family and their possessions, as well as the institutions that eventually acquired them. Essays, vignettes, and catalogue entries comprise this multidisciplinary exposition, uniting objects depicted in the painting for the first time in nearly 300 years.

Author

Andrew Moore (Editor), Nathan Flis (Editor), Francesca Vanke (Editor)

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Print publication date April 2018 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300232905

EISBN 9780300263473

Illustrations 485

Print Status in print

Publisher (in print)

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