Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe
"Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers the...
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New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : Women and the cultures of collecting Arlene Leis and Kacie L. Wills Part I. Artificialia and Naturalia
- Science, gender and collecting : the Dutch eighteenth-century Ladies' Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy Between art and science : portraits of citrus fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici Irina Schmiedel Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral Kelsey Brosnan Part II. Travel, Borders, and Networks
- Maria Sibylla Merian : a woman's pioneering work in entomology Katharina Schmidt-Loske Sarah Sophia Banks's coin collection : female networks of exchange Erica Y. Hayes and Kacie L. Wills Conversing with collecting the world : elite female sociability and learning through objects in the Age of Enlightenment Lizzie Rogers Portrait of Charlotte de France : from Naples to Sicily, a collection in transit Maria Antonietta Spadero The collecting activity of Catherine II in eighteenth-century Russia : pioneering action or sheer demonstration of power? Charis Ch. Avlonitou Part III. Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing
- "I made memorandums" : Mary Hamilton, sociability, and antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century collection Madeleine Pelling Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade caryatid Nicole Cochrane Anne Wagner's album (1795-1805) : collecting feminine friendship Ryna Ordynat An art cabinet in miniature : the dollhouse of Petronella Oortman Hanneke Grootenboer
- Part IV. Beyond the Eighteenth Century
- Collection, display, and conservation : the Print Room at Castletown House Anna Frances O’Regan Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970) : a lady's collection of eighteenth-century folding fans Arlene Leis