12019-05-01T13:57:07-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332307structured_gallery2019-05-15T03:50:41-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Gustave Posno was a Dutch dealer and collector active in Cairo, Egypt, during the later nineteenth century. A jeweler by trade, Posno assembled a substantial collection of Egyptian antiquities, many of which he sold at a major auction in Cairo in 1874--it is for this auction he is principally known. Items from Posno's collection are among the earliest to have entered Stanford's holdings. Leland Stanford Jr. purchased them in Paris during the family's 1883-1884 European trip.
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Born Leland DeWitt Stanford, Leland Stanford Jr. was the precocious son of Leland and Jane Stanford. He developed an early interest in archaeology, including Egyptology. Although he never traveled to Egypt himself, he purchased Egyptian antiquities from Gustave Posno and other European dealers during family trips to the continent in 1881 and 1883/1884. His tutor and biographer, Herbert Nash, describes Leland Jr. spending hours in the Egyptian Wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, copying hieroglyphics and sketching artifacts. After Leland Jr.'s unexpected death in 1884 at the age of 15, his interests inspired his parents to found a museum in his honor at Leland Stanford Junior Memorial University.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12