Los presagios de la conquista de México (Pl. 167) Page et al 2018 / Spellbound: magic, ritual and witchcraft King 2019 / El hombre del espejo: el espejo de obsidiana de John Dee en el Museo Británico de Londres, in: Tetzáhuitl. 435) (Touched upon in relation to Ackermann/Devoy article) Ackermann & Devoy 2012 / ‘The Lord of the smoking mirror’: Objects associated with John Dee in the British Museum (Comprehensive discussion of object in BM collections) McEwan 2009a / Moctezuma. 294) Rampling 2012 / John Dee and the sciences: early modern networks of knowledge (p. 96-100) (illustrated and described) Bate & Thornton 2012 / Shakespeare: Staging the World (p. 195-212) Snodin 2009 / Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (no. It should be pointed out that these events are entirely fictitious.īibliographic references Tait 1967 / `The Devil's Looking-Glass': the magical speculum of Dr John Dee (pp. One such recent example is Jennifer Lee Carrell's 'The Shakespeare Curse' (2010), where the theft of the mirror from the British Museum together with the murder of its curator, the subsequent consecration of the mirror through human blood, and its ultimate safe return to the Museum are described in haunting detail. The obsidian mirror and other objects associated with John Dee have attracted considerable attention from novelists. Further details can be found in the exhibition catalogue for entries 71 and 103 (Colin McEwan and Leonardo López Luján (eds.), Moctezuma: Aztec ruler, London: British Museum Press (2009)). This obsidian mirror featured in the British Museum exhibition 'Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler' (24 September 2009 - 24 January 2010). The mirror is also illustrated on p.81 of 'Miscellanea Graphica' (Thomas Wright 1856) as part of the Londesborough collection.įor Walpole's interest in Dee see Alicia Weisberg Roberts in Snodin 2009 pp. Also published by Univ of Colorado Press in 2003 is a book by Guilhem Olivier on Tezcatlipoca.įor recent bibliography on Dee see 'John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought', Stephen Clucas (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer (2006). Smith who specialises in Aztec archaeology (The Aztecs - Blackwell Publishing) has an essay in progress on obsidian mirrors in museum collections for an edited volume of essays on Tezcatlipoca to be published by Univ of Colorado Press. Colin McEwan of the BM notes that: Michael E.
17, English, thought to be John Dee.Īssociated dates : 16thC(late). 2020, for a polychrome wax portrait of a bearded man depicted in ruff and black cap, first half c. See also Christie's Sale 198891, Fince and Co's Cabinet of Curiosities, Oct-Nov. Stuart Campbell), 2019, via pXRF, was able to distinguish that the obsidian used in this artefact was plausibly from Pachua, Mexico. Analysis undertaken at the University on Manchester, Manchester Obsidian Laboratory (Prof.
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