The World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1
The Disney Family
	Figure 1. St Peter’s Norton Disney © David Gill
	John Disney (1677-1730)
		Figure 2. Sir Richard Disney’s memorial at Norton Disney. © David Gill
		Figure 3. John Disney (1677–1730), by Robert White. National Portrait Gallery D10737.
	John Disney (1700-1771)
	Mary Disney
	Lewis Disney
	Frederick Disney
	John Disney
	Conclusion
Chapter 2
The Break with the Church of England
	The Blackburne Family
		Figure 4. The Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, engraving by Giovanni Vendramini. National Portrait Gallery D14260.
	The Reverend John Disney
		Figure 5. The Reverend John Disney, engraved by John Basire after Guy Head. National Portrait Gallery D8486.
	Essex Street Chapel
	Disney’s decision to leave the Church of England
	Disney at Essex Hall
	The final years at Essex Street Chapel
Chapter 3
Collectors of the Grand Tour: Thomas Hollis and Thomas Brand
	Thomas Brand
		Figure 6. Thomas Brand-Hollis. Memoirs of Thomas Brand-Hollis.
	Thomas Hollis
		Figure 7. Thomas Hollis, by Joseph Wilton. National Portrait Gallery 6946.
	The Tours to Italy
	Brand and Hollis in London
	The Hyde Remodelled
		Figure 8. Athena from the William Lloyd collection. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 10. Sarcophagus with Dionysiac scene. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 11. Detail of sarcophagus with Dionysiac scene. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 9. Sarcophagus showing Achilles hiding among the daughters of Lycomedes. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 12. Sarcophagus and cinerarium displayed at The Hyde. Catalogue of The Hyde.
		Figure 14. ‘Atys’, Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 13. Cinerarium of Marcus Ulpius Fortunatus from the William Lloyd collection. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 15. Cinerarium of Marcus Aurelius, reported to have been found near the tomb of Caecilia Metella. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 16. Portrait of Marcus Aurelius once in the Palazzo Barberini. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 17. Funerary inscription of Caius Menanius Batyllus and Anthimus. Museum Disneianum.
	The Hollis Bequest
		Figure 18. Cinerarium of Titus Flavius Verus, from Pozzuoli. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 19. Medallion of Nero acquired in Venice c. 1752. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 20. Head of ‘Augustus’ carved on a medieval arch, acquired in Naples c. 1755. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 21. Thomas Hollis, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani. National Portrait Gallery D46107.
	Essex Hall Chapel
		Figure 22. ‘Jupiter Column’ found at Great Chesterford in 1803, and presented to the British Museum by Thomas Brand-Hollis. © David Gill.
		Figure 23. Apollo. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 24. Memorial for Thomas Brand-Hollis, Ingatestone Parish Church.
Chapter 4
The Disney-Ffytche Family and Essex
	Danbury Place
		Figure 25. Danbury Place, Essex.
	Disney-Ffytche and Danbury Place
	France and Italy
	Italy and William Hillary
	Return to England
	John Disney: Cambridge, Law and Marriage
Chapter 5
Life at The Hyde and its Collection
	Figure 26. The Hyde, near Ingatestone, Essex.
	John Disney, Recorder of Bridport
	The Death of the Reverend John Disney
	Prospective MP for Harwich and Magistrate
		Figure 27. Memorial for the Reverend John Disney, and his grandson John, on the Disney family tomb. © David Gill.
	The Hillary Family: Divorce, Deaths and Legal Disputes
		Figure 28. Memorial for Dame Frances Hillary at Danbury. © David Gill.
	The Eastern Counties Railway
	Essex Agricultural Society
	The Disney Family
		Figure 29. Inscription from Colchester. Museum Disneianum.
	Developing the Hyde’s collection
		Figure 30. Funerary sphinx from Colchester. Colchester Castle Museum © David Gill
	Family matters
Chapter 6
Disney and Learned Societies
	The Chelmsford Philosophical Society
Chapter 7
The Museum Disneianum and Cambridge
	Figure 31. Attic black-figured lekythos. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 32. ‘Hermarchus’. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 34. Etruscan funerary cinerarium lid. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 33. Portrait probably of Faustina the Younger. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
	The Establishment of the Disney Chair
		Figure 35. Janiform sculpture, displayed as the gift of Disney. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 36. Attic red-figured column-krater acquired in Naples in 1799 or 1801. Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 37. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge © David Gill
	Essex Archaeological Society
Chapter 8
Going for Gold
	Railway and Other Interests
	Recognition
		Figure 38. Portrait of Dr John Disney presented to the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum. © David Gill.
		Figure 39. The Disney tomb in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Fryerning, Essex. © David Gill.
	Final Years
		Figure 40. Inscription for Sophia Disney on the Disney tomb. © David Gill.
		Figure 41. Inscription for Dr John Disney on the Disney tomb. © David Gill.
Chapter 9
The Disney Legacy
	Figure 42. Edgar Disney, by Camille Silvy, 1860. National Portrait Gallery Ax50666.
		Figure 44. Detail of Attic red-figured amphora (now in Copenhagen). Museum Disneianum.
		Figure 43. Detail of Paestan bell-krater (now in Cambridge). Museum Disneianum.
	Suffolk and the Disney chair
	Archaeological developments
	Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index