Millionare shopping: the collections of Alfred Morrison, 1821-1897

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Introduction / Caroline Dakers -- Alfred Morrison (1821-1897) : the making of a collector / Caroline Dakers -- Alfred Morrison as a patron of architecture / Neil Burton -- Alfred Morrison's old master paintings collection in context / Susanna Avery-Quash -- Alfred Morrison at the 1862 London International Exhibition / Martin P. Levy -- From Yuanmingyuan to Fonthill : buying Chinese ceramics in 1860s London and the invention of provenance / Stacey Pierson -- Alfred Morrison and his Summer Palace collection: sources and interpretations / Katrina Hill -- Alfred Morrison's furniture for Fonthill and 16 Carlton House Terrace: designed by Owen Jones and manufactured by Jackson & Graham / Clive Edwards -- Stampeding cattle, absurd horses and high-bred sheep: Alfred Morrison as patron and collector of animal art / Alison E. Wright -- 'Fine old pictures' : on the trail of Alfred Morrison's old masters / Emily Burns -- Reconstructing Alfred Morrison's sculpture collection / Alexander Kader -- Alfred Morrison's print collection / David Alexander -- Alfred Morrison's autograph manuscripts / Philip S. Palmer and Daria Rose Foner -- 'Lost if you leave me': Alfred Morrison, Plácido Zuloaga, collecting and not-knowing / Dror Elkvity -- Richard Dadd and the Morrison family: a tale of two masterpieces / Nicholas Tromans -- Mabel Morrison: patron and collector of lace and textiles / Molly-Claire Gilbert -- Alfred Morrison's numismatic collection: recollecting the mid-twentieth-century sales / Richard Falkiner with Caroline Daker -- Treasures from the Alfred Morrison collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / The dispersal of Alfred Morrison's collections, an overview / Caroline Dakers.