Exhibition
Legacy: Richard Cooper Jnr and the Artist's Album
10 Jan 2017 – 09 Jun 2017
UCL Art Museum
London, United Kingdom
Talk
Legacy in Conversation: Scrapbooks, Albums and Diaries in the 18th century
14 Mar 2017
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 13:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- South Cloisters, University College London
- Gower Street
- London
- WC1E 6BT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 10, 18, 30, 24, 29, 73, 134
- Tube: Euston, Euston Square, Goodge Street or Warren Street
- King's Cross
Event map
How did people organise their notes and thoughts in the eighteenth century?
About
In this talk, research student Hannah Wills explores some of the strategies employed by individuals for storing information, both textual and visual, concerning favourite books, poems and artworks, as well as original artistic compositions.
During his life, the artist Richard Cooper Jnr produced a number of albums, described in this exhibition as akin to ‘visual diaries’. By examining the notebooks and diaries of Charles Blagden (1748-1820), a little known natural philosopher and Cooper’s close contemporary, Hannah explains some of the similarities between artists’ albums, diaries, and a form of early modern scrapbook known as the ‘commonplace book’
