{"product_id":"women-and-the-art-and-science-of-collecting-in-eighteenthcentury-europe-9780367545390","title":"Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary st\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003cem\u003esehepunkte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Larry W. Riggs, \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I Artificialia and Naturalia\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrina Schmiedel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnne Vallayer-Coster’s \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Sea Shells and Coral\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKelsey Brosnan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Travel, Borders, and Networks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharina Schmidt-Loske\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eErica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eLizzie Rogers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Antonietta Spadero \u003c\/p\u003e 8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharis Ch. Avlonitou\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadeleine Pelling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole Cochrane\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyna Ordynat\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eHanneke Grootenboer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Frances O’Regan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eArlene Leis \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017949380951,"sku":"9780367545390","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367545390.jpg?v=1750775173","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-the-art-and-science-of-collecting-in-eighteenthcentury-europe-9780367545390","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}