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work_ljeijh6yujh2jdwu72pzus2gpi	Eloise Donnelly	'A desire for the National Good': Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks and the curatorship of Renaissance decorative art in Britain, 1840–1900	2018	26	.pdf	application/pdf	12088	650	60	Figure 1 Augustus Wollaston Franks, c.1870, British Museum BEP Archive. Wollaston Franks wrote to the trustees of the British Museum requesting permission At the time of Franks's letter to the trustees in 1847, however, the collections 3 For Franks's biography and contribution to the British Museum collections, see Marjorie L Caygill and John Cherry, eds, A.W. Franks : nineteenth-century collecting and the British Museum, London, Franks: Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum, Appendix 1, 318. objects amongst the trustees.19 Shortly before Franks's arrival at the Museum in Thornton, Italian Renaissance ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection, London, collection of 1554 objects were presented to the British Museum by Augustus appointment as director of the Art Museum, Franks informed Fortnum that 'Skinner have played a similar role in Franks's work on the British Museum's collections of the Frank McClean collection of medieval and Renaissance objects for the 	./cache/work_ljeijh6yujh2jdwu72pzus2gpi.pdf	./txt/work_ljeijh6yujh2jdwu72pzus2gpi.txt