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Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access published online on April 29, 2008
Journal of the History of Collections, doi:10.1093/jhc/fhn011
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Grollier de Servière, the brothers Monconys

Curiosity and collecting in seventeenth-century Lyon

Anthony Turner


  Abstract

Of collections in seventeenth-century Lyon, we can know most about the collection of machine models created by Grollier de Servière, and the general collection amassed by the traveller Balthazar de Monconys and his brother Gaspard. Comparison of the eighteenth-century published catalogue of Grollier's collection with accounts given of it by contemporary visitors reveals changes in the perception and presentation of the collection between 1650 and 1710, while comparison of the two collections reveals differences in the nature of ‘curiosity’ even within the seventeenth century.

Correspondence: Anthony Turner, 24 rue du Buisson Richard, 78600 Le Mesnil-le-Roi, France. anthonyjturner{at}9online.fr


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