- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1586957
- Part of:
- National Museums Liverpool
- Instance of:
- art museum; national museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 756
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1586957/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art Collection
The gallery is famous for its British 18th and 19th century paintings, including a fine collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings such as Leighton’s huge painting, ‘The Daphnephoria.’ This is one of the paintings acquired in 1913 through the purchase of George McCulloch’s fine art collection. James Orrock was a key influence in the development of the fine art collection and his own collection of British art was acquired by Leverhulme. The collections also feature paintings acquired by Leverhulme from the 1880s to be used in the advertising campaigns for his Sunlight Soap’ brand.
Subjects
Paintings; Fine Art
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
Most notable of the decorative art is the magnificent collection of Wedgwood, purchased from the 1st Lord Tweedmouth. The gallery also includes important 18th century furniture, Chinese porcelain, tapestries and embroideries. There are classical antiquities (Greek vases and Roman sculpture) acquired from Regency writer and designer Thomas Hope, Napoleonic memorabilia and Masonic regalia.
Subjects
Ceramics; Furniture; Decorative and Applied Arts
Ethnography Collection
Ethnographic items and African textiles were acquired by Lord Leverhulme.
Subjects
Ethnography
Ancient Egyptian and Sudanese Collection
The museum holds 48 ancient Egyptian objects which are part of the Archaeology collection. Classes of objects represented in the collection include: amulets; canopic jars; coffins; jewellery; metal figures; pottery; relief sculpture; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; toilet articles; tools/weapons. Objects are known to have come from the following locations in Egypt (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Abydos (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1906-1907); Thebes. Objects are known to have come from the following location in Sudan (with the name of the excavator/sponsor and year of excavation given where possible): Meroe (Garstang – Liverpool University, 1913-1914).
Subjects
Antiquities; Ancient civilizations; Antiquity; Archaeological sites; Archaeological objects; Egyptology; Archaeological excavations
Archives Collection
The varied interests of Lord Leverhulme are represented by archive material such as architectural drawings.
Subjects
Archives
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC