Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 18. (Budapest, 1999)

Maria FERENCZY: The formation of the Hopp-collection. On the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts

(1898), pp. 11-25.; Magyar Géniusz (Vasárnapi Lapok) Vol. VE. (1898) No. 30. pp. 492-495. (ill. pp. 491-497.); Földrajzi Közlemények Vol. XXIX. (1901), pp. 97-146.; Magyar Szalon Vol. XVJJL (1901), pp. 129-161.; Földrajzi Közlemények Vol. XXXII. (1904), pp. 177-224.; A Hét Vol. XV. (1904), No. 9. pp. 138-140.; Körlevél Vol. XXIV. (1904), No.12, App. (12 pp.); Uránia Vol. VI. ^1905), pp. 74-87.; Universum 1905,. pp. 27-60. Zoltán Felvinczi Takács, A Hopp Ferenc KeletÁzsiai Művészeti Múzeum. Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum [Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts. Edited by the Hungarian National Museum of Fine Arts], Budapest 1923, p. 9. 8 The transliteration and translation of the letters written in Gothic characters I have to thank to the help of Marianne Felvinczi Takács and Barnabás Csongor. 9 HMDD No.: A 1465, p. 5., 6. The Museum has the ostrich-egg item No. H 0001. in the inventory book of the art objects. 10 HMDD No.: A 1466, p. 2-3. The model is visible on the picmre No. 5. 11 HMDD No.: A 1468, p. 5. 12 HMDD No.: A 134, p. 2. 13 HMDD No.: A 1469, p. 8. 14 HMDD No.: A 1470, p. 7. 15 HMDD No.: A 1472, p. 8. 16 HMDD No.: A 164, p. 1. 17 HMDD No.: A 199. The Museum has the brick also (inventory No.: H 701.) 18 HMDD No.: A 146. 19 HMDD No.: A 147. He liked Japan best also twenty years later, on his journey round the world, he wanted to buy everything and take home even then (cf. Ferenc Hopp 1904, p. 11.) 20 HMDD No.: A 171, p. 1. 21 HMDD No.: A 172, p. 2. 22 Zoltán Felvinczi Takács: op. cit. p. 7. 23 HMDD No.: A 191, p. 1. 24 HMDD No.: A 1507/a, p. 4. 25 HMDD No.: A 196, p. 3. 26 HMDD No.: A 194, p. 1. 27 HMDD No.: A 1510, p. 3. The shells, according to the testimony of photographs from the end of the century (cf. HMDD Nos.: A 2086 and A 4681), were used as garden decorations. The Museum still has them. HMDD No.: A 1513, p. 7. 29 HMDD No.: A 202, p. 2. 30 Zoltán Felvinczi Takács: ibid. p. 8-9. 31 Out of the photographs collected during his first journey round the world, sixteen were given over for publication in a book by Lajos Lóczy, the geologist of Béla Széchenyi's expedition (1881— 82) to the Far East on China: Lajos Lóczy: A khinai birodalom természeti viszonyainak és országainak leírása [Description of Natural Conditions and Lands of the Chinese Empire, in Hungarian], Budapest 1896. - He gave over about twenty of his own photos taken during his third journey round the world to Eugen Zabel, a chance fellow-traveller as illustrations to the book of the latter: Eugen Zabel: Auf der sibirischen Bahn nach China. Berlin, Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Literatur, 1904. - On the conditions of their meeting cf. E. Zabel, op. cit. p. 231. and Ferenc Hopp, 1904, pp. 36-38. 32 It is known for instance that for Lajos Lóczy he brought pieces of lava of the volcano Kilauea from Hawaii (cf. the letter written by Lajos Lóczy to Ferenc Hopp, 19 January 1894 - thanks for the pieces of lava, HMDD No.: A 1671/12, p. 2.), from a journey in Near East he brought minerals to the Chair of Mineralogy at the Polytechnical University (cf. the letter written by professor Ferenc Schafarzik to Ferenc Hopp, 10 January 1898., HMDD No.: A 64, p. 2.) - The Hungarian National Museum of Fine Arts' Sicilian and Punic (Carthaginian) collection owes also its existence to him: Ferenc Hopp purchased these objects on the spot at the request of the Museum's learned members. See for instance his letter written to Henrik Jurány from Tunis, 20 February 1897: "Gestern war ich wieder in Karthago und kaufte im dortigen Museum eine ganze Anzahl ausgegrabenen Häferlen Lampen um F 250.-, bringe sie dem National Museum zum Geschenke mit" (HMDD: A 1586.). Mentioned also in Ferenc Hopp, 1898, p. 6. 33 Cf. Ferenc Hopp, 1904, p. 10. 34 Cf. Zoltán Felvinczi Takács: ibid, p. 6. It is mentioned there also that at the foundation of the Museum the silver medal still existed. 35 His monographies: Kelet császárai és császárságai [Oriental Empires an Emperors], Budapest