The Forgotten Collector: Augustus Wollaston Franks of the British Museum

by David M. Wilson

A biography of collector Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826- 1897) who as Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum was responsible for the Wilson. b&w throughout

63 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Sir David Mackenzie Wilson is an English archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, specialising in Anglo-Saxon art and the Viking Age. He lives on the Isle of Man.

Wilson was the director of the British Museum from 1977 to 1992, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1985 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge.