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About King went to Italy, and there spent several years studying the Italian language and literature and in collecting antique gems, which he procured at moderate prices, especially in Rome and Florence. King afterwards increased his collection by many gems purchased of Eastwood, the London dealer, and acquired specimens at the sale in London of several important cabinets, such as the Mertens-Schaafhausen Praun , the Hertz, and the Uzielli. The collection, formed between and , ultimately consisted of engraved stones, more than two-thirds of which were Greek and Roman, the remainder being Sassanian, Gnostic, and Oriental.
About , when his eyesight was seriously failing, King sold his collection, and it is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, to which it was presented in October by Mr.
John Taylor Johnston, the president of that institution. A catalogue has been printed, without change, from King's own manuscript dated 28 Feb. He was in holy orders, but had no cure. King later increased his collection by buying gems from Eastwood, a London dealer, and also at auction in London, where several important collections, including the Mertens-Schaafhausen Praun , the Hertz, and the Uzielli were put on the market. In , when his eyesight was seriously failing, King sold his collection to John Taylor Johnston, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, who gave it to that institution in October A catalogue was printed in , without alterations, from King's own manuscript of 28 February , with the title The Johnston Collection of Engraved Gems Metropolitan Museum, New York, handbook no.
After his return from Italy, King's life was chiefly spent at Trinity, where from he was Senior Fellow.
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He was in holy orders, but had no cure. He took no part in the educational life of the College, but devoted himself to writing books about glyptics, the most widely valued at the time being his two-volume Antique Gems and Rings and a shorter Handbook of Engraved Gems ; 2nd edn, However, despite his sensitivity to the art of gem-engraving, all his work is marred by a dilettante approach, more typical of the neo-classical age than of later nineteenth-century scholarship.
He was capable of ungenerous remarks about fellow collectors such as Bram Hertz, whose collection surpassed his own in size and quality Antique Gems and Rings , —3, Brass located on the north wall of the Ante-Chapel. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Antiquities.
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