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Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Edited By Arlene Leis, Kacie L. Wills Copyright 2021
220 Pages 12 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 12 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 12 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part I Artificialia and Naturalia

  1. Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg

    2. Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy

  2. Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici

    3. Irina Schmiedel

  3. Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral

    4. Kelsey Brosnan

    Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks

  4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology

    5. Katharina Schmidt-Loske

  5. Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange

    6. Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills

  6. Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment

    7. Lizzie Rogers

  7. Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit

    8. 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

  8. ‘I made memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection

    9. Madeleine Pelling

  9. Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid

    10. Nicole Cochrane

  10. Anne Wagner’s Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship

    11. Ryna Ordynat

  11. An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman

    12. Hanneke Grootenboer

    Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century

  12. Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House

    13. Anna Frances O’Regan

  13. Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady’s collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans

Arlene Leis

Biography

Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.

Kacie L. Wills received her PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside, and is Assistant Professor of English at Illinois College.

"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

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