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BLWA 8
- Record Id:
- 032-003264386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264386
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000343
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100110041983.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- BLWA 8
- Title:
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Bust of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Artist(s): Rysbrack, Michael (1693-1770), after
- Scope & Content:
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Hans Sloane was born in Ulster,Northern Ireland, and trained as a physician. An avid collector from an early age, he acquired over 200,000 plant and animal specimens, 71,000 objects, and over 50,000 books, manuscripts, prints and drawings. These later became the foundation collection of the British Museum.
Sloane travelled to Jamaica in 1687 as physician to the island’s British colonial Governor and worked as a doctor on slave plantations. Using the expertise of enslaved West Africans and English planters, he collected hundreds of plants and animal specimens. When he returned to London, Sloane married Elizabeth Langley Rose, an heiress to sugar plantations in Jamaica. He was a shareholder in the Royal African and South Sea Companies, both of which profited from the slave trade. His medical income, his investments, and the profits from the forced labour on his wife’s plantations enabled Sloane to build such a large collection.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- BLWA Collection
British Library Works of Art - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264386
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264386
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100110041983.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1999
- Date Range:
- 20th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Currently on permanent display in the British Library's front entrance hall
- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: terracotta
- Source of Acquisition:
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20th century facsimile given by the Trustees of the British Museum.
- Material Type:
- Artefacts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)