ABSTRACT
Edward Robinson, at the time the Curator of Classical Antiquities at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was largely responsible for drawing up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s wish list for the “Chaldaean, Assyrian, Persian, Greek and Roman” periods. The Slater Museum had appointed Edward Robinson in 1887 to select, install, and purchase a collection of casts, which is still on display. Boston was so successful at stocking its museum that by 1885, when Robinson came on board, the museum was not acquiring new plasters because the cast rooms were already overcrowded. During the 1890s, at the urging and with the blessing of Edward Robinson, the museum began to acquire ever more original works of art. On 12 August 1905, after only three years as Director but 20 years of service to the museum, Robinson abruptly resigned altogether from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
