General Fox-Pitt-Rivers: catalogues of his collections.

This material is held atCambridge University Library

Scope and Content

9 volumes, 1882-99, chronological catalogues of antiquities and ethnographical material: date of acquisition / article and description / price / location in various residences ('Place where it might be found', annotated to show rearrangement of collection, later 'Deposited at' / 'Transferred to'), many items illustrated with pen-and-wash drawings by G.F. Waldo Johnson and others.

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Pitt-Rivers Trust (senior family member G.Anthony Pitt-Rivers) per Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, 1997. Item [10] presented by G. Anthony Pitt-Rivers, 2004.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Bibliography

For an obituary of Pitt-Rivers, see Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, xviii, p.338. See also Michael Thompson and Colin Renfrew, 'The catalogues of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset' in Antiquity 73 (1999).

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