{"id":9329,"date":"2018-11-15T13:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:09:59","slug":"the-rokeby-lecture-2018-artful-impressions-in-the-archbishops-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/demo.brandingbay.com\/ARL\/the-rokeby-lecture-2018-artful-impressions-in-the-archbishops-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: The Rokeby Lecture 2018: Artful Impressions in the Archbishop\u2019s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rokeby Lecture 2018\u00a0 Artful Impressions in the Archbishop\u2019s Cabinet : <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim Wilks on the Library’s Gem Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Armagh Robinson Library will hold its fifth Rokeby Lecture on Thursday 22 November 2018 at 7.30pm in the Library\u2019s Long Room.\u00a0 The guest speaker will be Professor Tim Wilks, whose lecture is entitled \u2018Artful Impressions in the Archbishop\u2019s Cabinet \u2019.\u00a0 He will speak on the Library\u2019s classical gem impressions, left to the Library by its founder, Archbishop Richard Robinson.<\/p>\n

Tim Wilks is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Solent University, Southampton, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely on British and European visual, material and literary culture in the Renaissance and early-Modern periods. Tim\u2019s interest in the Library\u2019s collections of gem impressions grew while researching the history of collections from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.\u00a0 His research covered the emergence of cabinet collections of small antiquities, including gems, in Britain and Ireland, at the very time that Robinson was gathering his own collection.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the collection of almost four thousand gems, is a copy of the original catalogue, called \u2018A Catalogue of Impressions in Sulphur of Antique and Modern Gems from which Pastes are Made and Sold\u2019 by J. Tassie, London,1775.\u00a0 An introduction to the catalogue refers to the gems as follows, \u201cThe Antiquarian and the Scholar may find the gratification of their taste. The Ladies will not only find a very great variety of intaglios for seals, but cameos for pendants and bracelets, of execution sufficient to gratify the delicacy of their taste.\u00a0 The Library and Study may be ornamented with the heads of Philosophers, Poets, Orators, and Heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of his lecture, Professor Wilks said, \u201cBeneath a mask of beauty, cabinet collections provided access to the beliefs and practices of the ancients. None of these collections yielded their secrets easily, but, as I much look forward to showing, the Archbishop\u2019s cabinet has gathered mysteries of its own in the 250 years of its existence.”<\/p>\n

The Library is grateful for the support of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council for this event.\u00a0 Admission is free, however, pre-booking is recommended.\u00a0 Please contact Armagh Robinson Library by telephoning \u00a0028 37523142 or by e-mailing: admin@armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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