Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 and ©2021

Subject:

Women collectors - Europe - History - 18th century
Collectors and collecting - Social aspects - Europe - History - 18th century
Art - Collectors and collecting - Europe - History - 18th century
Natural history - Catalogs and collections - Europe - History - 18th century

Contributor:

Leis, Arlene, editor
Wells, Kacie, editor

ISBN:

9780367856663, 0367856662, 9780367545390, and 036754539X

Series:

Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950

Description:

xvii, 194 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

Summary:

"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 their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects - some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women's role as producers, that is creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts - both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts - exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women's studies, gender studies, and art conservation"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

AM342 .W66 2021

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