[Entrance token from Sir Ashton Lever’s natural history museum `The Holophusicon', ca. 1775.]
[Entrance token from Sir Ashton Lever’s natural history museum `The Holophusicon', ca. 1775.]
[Entrance token from Sir Ashton Lever’s natural history museum `The Holophusicon', ca. 1775.]
About this item
Full title
Date
ca. 1775
Call Numbers
R 2170 , Status: On display - The Collectors’ Gallery, Case 2, Shelf 35
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Physical Description
Contents
1 token - diameter 37 mm - bronze
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Level of description
Fonds
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
A circular bronze entrance token for the Holophusicon natural history museum in London, which opened in 1775. The front is stamped ‘Holophusicon’, while the reverse reads ‘Sr.A.L.’, the monogram of Sir Ashton Lever.
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Entrance token from Sir Ashton Lever’s natural history museum `The Holophusicon', ca. 1775.]
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1287055
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Hordern House, Melbourne Book Fair catalogue July 2014, Item 13
Administrative / Biographical history
The Holophusicon (meaning ‘embracing all of nature’) was a museum housing a natural history collection owned by Sir Ashton Lever. It opened at Leicester House, Leicester Square, London, in 1775 and was notable for the large number and variety of its exhibits and for its accessibility to the general public for a nominal admission fee, unusual for pr...
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
R 2170 , Status: On display - The Collectors’ Gallery, Case 2, Shelf 35
Record Identifier
92eVGA6Y
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Other Identifiers
Reference code
1222976
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