Here he displayed his collection of objets d'art and other items, including embroideries from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century. Many of these embroideries had been part of ecclesiastical vestments and other textiles. When he died in 1898, he bequeathed Waddesdon and most of the collection to his sister, Alice Charlotte von Rothschild.
In 1897, he published an essay on collecting, called 'Bric-a-brac,' reprinted in Apollo, July/August 2007, pp. 54-77.
Source: BOAK, Rachel (2013). Sacred Stitches. Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor/National Trust, pp. 10-12.
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