The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789): A Personal History of a Dutch VirtuosoUitgeverij Verloren, 2010 - 829 pagina's "The life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten" details his personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem - to this day a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's documents show us a virtuoso: a connoisseur and dilettante in natural philosophy. They give us a unique glimpse of his character and qualities, but also of his asthmatic sufferings and use of opium. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, take us from the early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic to the exotic Dutch East Indies and from there to the cosmopolitan London of the latter part of the century. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 17 |
Ancestry and Youth 17101731 | 34 |
Early impressions | 42 |
School and University | 49 |
Apprenticeship | 55 |
Return to Patria | 150 |
First Years in England 17591763 | 176 |
Lotens Investments | 194 |
Last Years in Utrecht 17811789 | 461 |
The Loten Natural History Collection | 487 |
to to | 508 |
Pennants Synopsis of Quadrupeds and History of Quadrupeds | 536 |
Deer | 544 |
7 | 550 |
Epilogue | 558 |
Annexe | 566 |
Lotens Tour on the Continent 17631764 | 271 |
Switzerland and Austrian Flanders | 297 |
Marriage and Travel 17641770 | 305 |
Declining health 17701776 | 333 |
S Utrecht 17751776 | 383 |
Household Matters | 396 |
Portrait of a Lonely Man 17761781 | 418 |
3 | 456 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amsterdam Anna Henrietta annotation April Archive Arnout Loten Auction catalogue August Batavia birds British Brugghen van Croy Celebes Ceylon church Clootwijk Colombo Company Concept letter copy Cotes councillor daughter December Dirk Willem documents drawings Dutch East Indies Dutch Republic England English engraving February French G.J. Van Hardenbroek George Governor governor-general guilders Hague Helmond Helmond Archief Holland HUA.GC HUA.NA Indian Zoology J.G. Loten Jacob January Java Joan Carel Loten Joan Gideon Loten Johan John Joseph Banks Juchen July June Lady later Leiden Lettice Linnaeus London Lord Loten collection Loten referred Loten to G.J. Loten wrote Macassar March Maria married mentioned Mossel Museum Natural History nhm.lc nl-hana.voc notary notebook November October opium paintings Patria Pieter Cornelis plate published rixdollars Royal Society Semarang September ship Stadholder Sydney Parkinson Thomas Pennant Utrecht visited volume voyage watercolour wife Wijk bij Duurstede Willem Wilmsdorff Zeeland zijn