Joseph Eckhel - Pieter van Damme - 1780-4-26

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Joseph Eckhel - Pieter van Damme - 1780-4-26
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  7333
InstitutionName of Institution. The Hague, Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum
InventoryInventory number. FA 400, f. 450r-451r
AuthorAuthor of the document. Joseph Eckhel
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Pieter van Damme
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . April 26, 1780
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. Vienna 48° 12' 30.06" N, 16° 22' 21.00" E
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Eckhel 17921, Woytek 2022a, p. 388, n° 22, Burnett 2022, p. 419, n° 13, Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 587, note 304
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Book Production , Vienna , Manual Of Numismatics, Gems , Coin Cabinet (vienna), Cabinet Acquisitions
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence French
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-Lettre du 26 avril 1780 (de Vienne) : On 26 April 1780, Eckhel resumed the correspondence after a hiatus of three years – the longest break in the sequence of letters until the end of the contacts between the two men in 1791. He apologised for his silence and informed van Damme about his activities in the meantime: he had re-arranged the imperial collection of ancient coins and published its catalogue, also, he had been handed curatorial responsibility for the imperial collection of ancient gems and cameos. Most importantly, Eckhel mentioned that he was in the process of preparing a new comprehensive handbook on ancient coinage (“la Science des Médailles”): it is the work published from 1792 onward under the title Doctrina numorum veterum. Eckhel trusted that van Damme might be able to help, for example by providing information on unknown specimens. Also, Eckhel hoped to be able to obtain coins from van Damme for the Vienna collection“Il y a quelques années, que j’ai commencé à écrire la Science des Médailles ouvrage, qui sera bien détaillé, et qui est déjà fort avancé” (The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, FA 400/450, f. 1v; Woytek 2022a, p. 388, n° 2; Burnett 2022, p. 419, n° 1; Dekesel - Dekesel-De Ruyck 2022, p. 587, note 30).

References

  1. ^  Eckhel, Joseph (1792), Doctrina numorum veterum, I, Joseph Vincent Degen, Vienna.
  2. ^  Woytek, Bernhard (2022), "The Genesis of Eckhel's Doctrina numorum veterum and Georg Zoëga's Numismatic Papers", in Bernhard Woytek and Daniela Williams (eds.), Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics, Vienna, p. 285-298.
  3. ^  Burnett, Andrew (2022), "Scientia rei numariae – Ars critica numaria – Doctrina numorum veterum: What Are the Models?", in Bernhard Woytek and Daniela Williams (eds.), Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics, Vienna, p. 411-428.
  4. ^  Dekesel, Christian Edmond - Dekesel-De Uyt, Yvette M. M. (2022), "The Unholy Relationship Between a Numismatic Scholar and a Wheeler Dealer: Joseph Eckhel, Pieter van Damme and the Peculiar Recueil des médailles des Rois", in Bernhard Woytek and Daniela Williams (eds.), Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737–1798) and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics, Vienna, p. 583-623