The Yale Center for British Art: Art in Context Collecting the World to Know the World — Sir Hans Sloane’s Drawing Albums Tuesday, October 31, 12:30–1 pm ET Online

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Art in Context Collecting the World to Know the World — Sir Hans Sloane’s Drawing Albums Tuesday, October 31, 12:30–1 pm ET Online   The vast collections of Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753) were the foundations of three national institutions: the British Library, the British Museum, and the Natural History Museum. A royal physician and natural philosopher of insatiable curiosity who was secretary and president of the Royal Society, Sloane attempted to encompass the world and its knowledge through the creation of an encyclopedic collection to be left to the nation. In this talk, Kim Sloan will examine recent efforts to reconstruct his collections and provide an overview of Sloane’s “paper museum” of one hundred albums of more than 20,000 drawings. Sloan is a Visiting Scholar at the YCBA and former curator of British drawings and watercolors at the British Museum.   REGISTER TODAY!

Image credit: George Edwards, A stoat (Mustela erminea), detail, from Sir Hans Sloane's album originally containing 167 drawings of quadrupeds. Watercolor, touched with bodycolor, British Museum. Contact: +1 203 432 2800 Yale Center for British Art PO Box 208280 1080 Chapel Street New Haven, CT 06520-8280

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