- Wikidata identifier:
- Q2920095
- Also known as:
- Handel & Hendrix in London, Handel House Museum, Handel and Hendrix Museum, Handel and Hendrix in London
- Instance of:
- historic house museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1680
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q2920095/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Personalia collection
Core collection relating to Handel comprises about 800 items, a majority of which are works on paper and printed scores or books. In 1996 and 1998 respectively, the Collections Trust acquired two important oil paintings: a portrait of one of Handel’s opera sopranos Faustina Bordoni (?1700-81) by Bartolomeo Nazari (1699-1758) and a portrait of Jennens by Thomas Hudson (1701-79).There are also small amounts of sculpture, manuscripts, medals and ephemera. The Gerald Byrne collection makes up about 700 of these 800 items (see separate listing of this collection). The Museum holds furniture with which to dress the rooms but this does not form part of the core collections.
Subjects
Music; Architecture; Music scores
Gerard Byrne Collection
In 1998 the Handel House Collections Trust acquired the Byrne Collection, a major Handel collection which consists of about 700 objects including a letter from Handel to Charles Jennens regarding Belshazzar and Messiah, an autograph leaf from Esther, Mozart’s arrangement of a Handel fugue, John Mainwaring’s Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel (1760) annotated by Jennens, early editions of operas and oratorios, and prints, portraits and sculpture.
Subjects
Music; Music scores
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC