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Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of Fine Arts Boston is an art museum at Boston and United States. It was established in 1870. Its recorded founders are Martin Brimmer and Charles Callahan Perkins.

Also recorded as Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; MFA Boston; MFA; MFAB.

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Identity

What the record establishes about Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Exhibit of early medical texts illustrating practice in fevers, plague, etc / Exhibition Room, Fine Arts Department, Boston Public Library. is dated [1921] and held by Wellcome Collection. Catalogue of the Indian collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. is dated 1981- and held by Wellcome Collection. Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is dated 1876 and held by Wellcome Collection. Bulletin / Museum of Fine Arts. is dated 1926-1965 and held by Wellcome Collection. Museum of Fine Arts bulletin is dated 1903-1925 and held by Wellcome Collection. Fine Arts Quarterly Review is catalogued and held by Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection records 179 objects associated with this heading. Museum of Fine Arts Boston is associated with United States.

Holdings and surviving copies

Ancient Egypt as represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1960) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (1876) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 179 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Early Chinese paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : Hamilton Bell, 1913. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (CT), Brill’s New Pauly. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (RWG), Der Neue Pauly. Recent Museum Acquisitions Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Parnassus, 1931. On a Wing and a Prayer: Ibis Mummies in Material Culture at Abydos, Arts, 2020.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (38524-4). Those registers additionally record the forms Musée des Beaux-Arts (Boston, Mass.), ボストン美術館, Bosuton Bijutsukan, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.), MFA (Museum of Fine Arts), Museio Kalōn Technōn (Boston, Mass.), Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Digitised editions and texts

2 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (1876) — Internet Archive. Ancient Egypt as represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1960) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 45 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 6 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1870Museum of Fine Arts Boston established.
  2. 1876Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is dated 1876 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  3. 1876Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (1876) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  4. 1876Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Wellcome Collection).
  5. 1876Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1903Museum of Fine Arts bulletin is dated 1903-1925 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 1903Museum of Fine Arts bulletin (Wellcome Collection).
  8. 1921Exhibit of early medical texts illustrating practice in fevers, plague, etc / Exhibition Room, Fine Arts Department, Boston Public Library. is dated [1921] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 1921Exhibit of early medical texts illustrating practice in fevers, plague, etc / Exhibition Room, Fine Arts Department, Boston Public Library. (Wellcome Collection).
  10. 1926Bulletin / Museum of Fine Arts. is dated 1926-1965 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  11. 1926Bulletin / Museum of Fine Arts. (Wellcome Collection).
  12. 1960Ancient Egypt as represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1960) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  13. 1960Ancient Egypt as represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston digitised by Internet Archive.
  14. 1981Catalogue of the Indian collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. is dated 1981- and held by Wellcome Collection.
  15. 1981Catalogue of the Indian collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. (Wellcome Collection).

Connections

Each connection was recorded deliberately, with the basis for it kept on the internal record.

Studied at

  • Ernest FenollosaAuthor

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

  • Steven LisbergerPerson

    Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (CT), Brill’s New Pauly

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (RWG), Der Neue Pauly

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Early Chinese paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston : Hamilton Bell, 1913

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Recent Museum Acquisitions Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Parnassus, 1931

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    TWO MARBLES IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, Two Marbles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Contemporary press: 15 articles naming “Museum of Fine Arts Boston” across 14 publications

    press · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 13 articles naming Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

    open access index · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 38524-4, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  9. 9.

    Internet Archive, 570 digitised items catalogued under Museum of Fine Arts Boston as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  10. 10.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 179 works naming Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  11. 11.

    “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  12. 12.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q49133: Museum of Fine Arts Boston

    authority record · Unverified · Wikidata

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