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Title
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John Turnbull Thomson
Description
An account of the resource
A sample of the works by John Turnbull Thomson (1821-1884) held in Hocken Collections.
Contributor
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Various collectors
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Title
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Chinese joss house, Singapore.
Subject
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Temples
Description
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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Chinese joss house, Singapore
Creator
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Thomson, John Turnbull
Date Created
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1847
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Thomson sketchbook volume 1; section 2
Extent
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155 x 230 mm
Medium
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watercolour on paper
Type
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Image
Still Image
Watercolors
Art
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 92/1157
a12136
Spatial Coverage
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Singapore
Southeast Asia
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Lennel Trust.
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
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Nineteenth century
Singapore
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Temples
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Title
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John Turnbull Thomson
Description
An account of the resource
A sample of the works by John Turnbull Thomson (1821-1884) held in Hocken Collections.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Still Image
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Title
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Chinese temple to the Queen of Heaven, Singapore.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Temples
Description
An account of the resource
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on mount in ink: Chinese temple to the Queen of Heaven, Singapore; in pencil: 1846
Creator
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Thomson, John Turnbull
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1847
Is Part Of
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Thomson sketchbook volume 1; section 2
Extent
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155 x 230 mm
Medium
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watercolour on paper
Type
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Image
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Watercolors
Art
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 92/1156
a12135
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Nineteenth century
Provenance
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Lennel Trust.
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
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Title
A name given to the resource
John Turnbull Thomson
Description
An account of the resource
A sample of the works by John Turnbull Thomson (1821-1884) held in Hocken Collections.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Various collectors
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
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Title
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Siamese Temple, Burmese Temple, Penang.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Temples
Description
An account of the resource
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: Siamese Temple, Burmese Temple, Pinang; in pencil: 1848
Creator
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Thomson, John Turnbull
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1848
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Thomson sketchbook volume 2; section 3
Extent
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253 x 172 mm
Medium
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watercolour on paper
Type
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Image
Still Image
Watercolors
Art
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections - 92/1194
a12174
Spatial Coverage
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Malaya
Southeast Asia
Temporal Coverage
Temporal characteristics of the resource.
Nineteenth century
Provenance
A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource.
Lennel Trust.
Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].
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Malaya
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Southeast Asia
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Temples
Watercolors
Works of Art
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Title
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Unpacking Ruins: architecture from antiquity. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
12 September - 28 November 2002 ~ de Beer Gallery
Central Library, University of Otago
Through the last five hundred years, ancient ruins have been uncovered, rediscovered and reinterpreted. They have provoked architectural inspiration. They have been studied to develop and support theories on how to build and how to value building. They have prompted reflection upon the end of Empire and upon the demise of civilization. In turn, they have provoked thoughts of future civilizations rising.
This exhibition of books and prints of the last four centuries traces changes in the way the West has related to the architecture of antiquity. Works displayed are from the collections of the University of Otago Library. Through text and illustrations the exhibition ponders how the material of the past has variously been unpacked and repackaged.
To unpack - to undo or open, to bring something out of storage.
Ruins, the weathered fragments speak of loss. They tell of the buildings that once were, of the people who made them, and of the cultures from which they arose. They tell of destruction, abandonment and decay. When viewing the larger volumes displayed in this exhibition one cannot help but feel a profound sense of absence. One may be filled with a longing for the past, or could be drawn to reflect upon the inevitably of the future. However, absence and loss are not the intended focus of the exhibition. Rather it is to chronicle how people have attempted to make sense of the ruins, how they have represented them, and how they have used them to understand the times in which they lived.
These volumes, selected from the Special Collections at the University of Otago Library reveal how ruins and fragments of antiquity have been variously cited over the last five hundred years. The 16th century edition of Vitruvius is evidence of the Renaissance search for an authentic voice from antiquity. Works from the century following present theoretical arguments and the search for architectural perfection, with surviving buildings, ruins and texts being compared and debated. Similar analysis has continued long after these works appeared. It is also apt to compare them with the text by Le Corbusier who returned to his youthful perceptions in Greece, Turkey and Italy for inspiration, example and origin.
Travel guides reveal how existing remains became part of the visual vocabulary of the 17th and 18th centuries. Authoritative accounts by British architect-travelers of ruins in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East were published as large folios between 1750 and 1850. The works of Wood and Dawkins in the Levant, of Stuart and Revett in Athens, of Adam in Dalmatia and of Cameron in Italy, follow the scientific archaeological approach of the Frenchman Desgodets. However these journeys were romantic and at times, fanciful, explorations as well. In the published volumes, travelers presented the surviving fragments and reconstituted them into reinvented larger works. In doing so, they changed the Western understanding of architecture and its day-to-day practice.
In considering the fall of empires in the late 18th century, it was inevitable that the survey of ruins would prompt reflection on the future of the West. In 1774 Horace Walpole wrote to Horace Mann,
"The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will perhaps be a Thucylides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima, will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like editions of Baalbec and Palmyra."
It is not surprising that sixty years later, at a time when the colonisation of New Zealand was actively debated in the Houses of Parliament, Macaulay would speculate upon a future New Zealander surveying the ruins of London. Doré's romantic image of the Mäori, draped in Renaissance gown and sketching, recalls illustrations of Wood and Stuart in the East, and it confirms the city in the line of great imperial centres. However the figure seated on the ruins of London Bridge may have seemed oddly chilling to the Victorian viewers.
The cutaway view of the Bank of England drawn by Joseph Gandy (in the vitrine outside the gallery) may have prompted a similar response. It presents the completed structure opened, clean, and viewed from the eye of God. The sunlit ruin appears timeless.
As well as being an emblem of transience, ruins signal persistence over time. It is this sense of permanence, or at least of a very slow decay, that perhaps provokes a continuing fascination and a pleasure that some recent writers have found in the them.
This exhibition has been curated by Robin Skinner of the School of Architecture, Victoria University Wellington. He was assisted by Elizabeth Tinker, Catherine Robertson and Sarah Jones of the Reference Department of the University of Otago Library.
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Title
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The ruins of Pæstum
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The ruins of Pæstum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Græcia
Subject
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Numismatics
Architecture
Illustrated books
Description
An account of the resource
The Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy were almost unknown until the 1750s. They became better known through publication. This book by Thomas Major was one of the first that enabled architects of Northern and Western Europe to study the three temples at this site. Along with the work of Stuart and Revett, these engravings were a valuable source for the Greek revival at the end of the 18th century. Piranesi later produced a series of twenty engravings of the ruins at Paestum in 1778.
Creator
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Major, Thomas
Publisher
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Published by T. Major ... printed by James Dixwell: London
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1768
Contributor
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Dixwell, James
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Illustrations
Text
Identifier
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Ee 1768 M [De Beer Special Collections]
Antiquity
Architecture
Greek
Posidonia
Special Collections
Temples