Description
Book SynopsisThrough 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 objectssome 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 artefactsboth visually, and in relation to their historical contextsexposes 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 st
Trade Review
"The frameworks and methodologies set forth by the authors gathered here will provide models for future feminist scholarship in archival research and in the effective deployment of endeavours in the digital humanities that make use of social network analysis." - Tori Champion, sehepunkte
"This is a valuable, well composed, and beautifully produced book. The fourteen chapters, divided among four parts, are all thoroughly researched and exhaustively documented. Each chapter has both clear, useful notes and a substantial bibliography."
-Larry W. Riggs, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
Table of ContentsPart I Artificialia and Naturalia
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Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg
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Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy
- Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici
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Irina Schmiedel
- Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral
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Kelsey Brosnan
Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks
- Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology
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Katharina Schmidt-Loske
- Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange
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Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills
- Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
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Lizzie Rogers
- Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit
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Maria Antonietta Spadero
8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th 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
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Madeleine Pelling
- Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid
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Nicole Cochrane
- Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship
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Ryna Ordynat
- An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
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Hanneke Grootenboer
Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century
- Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House
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Anna Frances O’Regan
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Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans
Arlene Leis
