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The incurable collector
Wall Street Journal
"An Infinity of Things - How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World" by Frances Larson (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/Infin ) Henry Wellcome's collecting started innocently enough: At Sotheby's December 1898 sale of William Morris's library, Wellcome bought books on architecture, textiles, printing, bibliography and design. The books were on subjects of particular interest to Wellcome, the cofounder, with Silas Burroughs, of the Burroughs Wellcome & Co. pharmaceutical empire. But soon Wellcome was casting a wider net, acquiring decorative vases, art sculpture, rugs, Native American artifacts and naval memorabilia. By the 1920s the tens of thousands of objects Wellcome had collected were overflowing in several houses and warehouses, an old laundry complex, a former stable, a converted department store and even parts of a Burroughs Wellcome factory. He had also developed another focus for his collecting: chronicling the history of medicine and health care all over the world and from the beginning of time. As Frances Larson writes in "An Infinity of Things," her absorbing account of how the American-born, London-based industrialist "collected the world," objects were "close packed up to the ceiling" and choked the hallways in a Wellcome warehouse. Spears that Wellcome had collected were stacked across roof rafters. "Only narrow gangways were left between the walls of packing cases. Eventually even these alleys were filled."... Continued: http://xrl.us/Infini |
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