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Article Dans Une Revue Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza Année : 2024

The Work of a Dilettante or a Grand Amateur? 

Nathalie Richard
Hadrien Viraben

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From 1873 onwards, Scottish antiquarian James Miln (1819–1881) undertook an uninterrupted series of excavations in Carnac, for which he used his skills as a draughtsman and a photographer. The archives and printed sources conserving the traces of his activities thus contain an extensive array of images: sketches drawn in his excavation notebooks; watercolour landscapes; engraved illustrations for his books; models sculpted from his surveys of archaeological sites. Through this visual production, Miln embodied successive and overlaying types of amateurism, from a gentleman dilettante to a grand amateur , closely resembling a specialist while being able to establish working conditions comparable to those of the (few) contemporary professionals.

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Nathalie Richard, Hadrien Viraben. The Work of a Dilettante or a Grand Amateur? : The Visual Productions of a 19th-Century Gentleman Archaeologist. Nuncius. Annali di Storia della Scienza, 2024, 39 (1), pp.51-75. ⟨10.1163/18253911-bja10070⟩. ⟨hal-04202811⟩
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