De-Illustrating the History of the British Empire by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

Author:Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes [Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781032006802
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

A Visible History of Exploration

During my research on the Wise Collection I found out about those who came into contact with the collection in a tangible way, in particular Thomas Alexander Wise and William Edmund Hay. Discovering their life stories enabled me to understand the historical context in which the maps and drawings of what was later called the Wise Collection were commissioned, produced, and purchased. It also enabled me to understand their ambitions to ‘collect Tibet’. Maya Jasanoff says about collectors:

Collectors make excellent guides across imperial frontiers because of their active, tangible engagement with other cultures, and their preoccupation with status and self-fashioning. Furthermore, by moving objects to Europe, they played an active role in representing foreign cultures to a wider Western public.

(Jasanoff 2006, 8)

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