The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) a personal history of a Dutch virtuoso
Zugl. Leiden, Univ., Diss., 2010
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Uitgeverij Verloren BV
2010
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| Beschreibung: | Summary: "The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten" details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem - to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century |
| Beschreibung: | 829 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9789087041519 9087041519 |