Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List Dutch Zoological Cabinets ... - DWC

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lection of the amateur-geologist Ben de Wit.
"Streekmuseum Stichting Heemkunde-Ootmarsum". Regional museum for folklore.
Hoogenhout 1978a, nr. 25.
1142. ORANJE -
The Princes of Oranje, Stadholders of Holland (Maurits 1567-1625, Frederik
Hendrik 1584-1647, William II 1626-1650, William III 1650-1702, William IV
1711-·1751, William V 1748-1806) were all more or less interested in animals.
They possessed a menagerie or a cabinet and the officers of the East and
West India Companies offered them the curious animals the ships brought to
Holland. Well-known is the casuary presented to Prince Maurits in 1616, put
up in the yard of count van Brederode, on the corner of the Toernooiveld and
the Houtstraat at 1 s-Gravenhage (a slum nearby kept the name Kasuariestraat).
It has been engraved by Chrispijn van den Queborn (Atlas van
Stolk). In 1795 the French brought everything of importance to Paris. Boyer
1971, p. 391-404; Postma 1961, p. 42, 116, 134: The later King William I saw
1802 with Talleyrand in Paris many objects that had been stolen by the
French. See also Rijksmuseum 1976, p. 10-15 seq.; Pennant 1948, p. 155 (v.
17_65), p. 163. In 1.813, after the restoration of the Kingdom, King William I
received back an adequate collection, which Brugmans (q.v.) selected in Paris.
He gave his collections to Leiden University, where they formed the nucleus
of the RMNH (see also Gijzen, p. 10, 23-28). The Antsterdam Zoological
Gardens have enjoyed interest and protection of our Kings William I, II,
III, and of Queen Wilhelmina. There is still a collection in the possession
of the House of Orange and much information about the old ones can yet be
found in the "Huisarchief". Brom 1.915, p. 126 (v. 1677-1678: while I have
dealt with the menageries s.v. Honselaersdi.jk, Loo, Soestdijk, I here only
mention the cabinet of shells of Prince Maurits); and the "Kabinet des Stadhouders'',
cf. Scheurleer 1966, p. 8, 9, 1.1, 78(187), 86(202), 87(207); 1967,
p. 18 note, 20-28, 31, 32, 35, 39, 41. (see also notes p. 211, nr. 29). Bayer
1950, p. 56; see also Elsevier's Magazine XXXIII, 1.977, p. 54). Evers 1912,
1914. AKL 1812, I, p. Lf22 seq. (disfigured skull of a pig). Engel 1937, p.
93, 94; 1961, p. 120; Boeseman 1970, p. 184 seq. Engel 1940, p. 203; Pieters
1978, p. 54; RouE!! 1803; Jutting 1939 (see register under Oranje); Tuyn &
van der Feen 1969, p. 69-71; Bierens de Haan 1952, p. 247; Cuvier & Valenciennes
(1828-1849), 1836, p. 325; 1830, p. 410; 18lf9, p. 128. It was founded
1756 (Argenville 1780, p. 338) by the widow of William IV, "Mevrouw de
Gouvernante", who bought Vosmaer's cabinet and made him director of it. Later
on the cabinet Lassara was bought. 1be cabinet was situated since Sept.
1766 in the N.E. edge of the Buitenhof, opposite the Palace of the
Stadholders (Die Haghe 1933, p. 54, seq., p. 122; Oud Holland 1892, X, note
1, p. 224); Anonymus 1781, p. 109; Pieters 1980, p. 539-563). Vosmaer 1800,
p. 34, nr. 153 mentions a catalogue, perhaps Ms., made 1778 for the Prince.
As is well-known he described many animals in Vosmaer 1766-1804 of which
many passed from the menagerie into the cabinet. He probably had a clerk at
his disposition named G. C. Blanken, who figures as subscriber in a book of
that time, Pallas often studied in the menagerie and in the cabinet; Pallas