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

✍ Scribed by Arlene Leis, Kacie L. Wills

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 221
Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Plates
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Women and the Cultures of Collecting
Part I Artificialia and Naturalia
1 Science, Gender and Collecting: The Dutch Eighteenth-Century Ladies’ Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg
2 Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici
3 Anne Vallayer-Coster’s Still Life With Sea Shells and Coral
Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks
4 Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman’s Pioneering Work in Entomology
5 Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange
6 Conversing With Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning Through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
7 Portrait of Charlotte de France: From Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit
8 The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power?
Part III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing
9 ‘I Made Memorandums’: Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection
10 Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid
11 Anne Wagner’s Album (1795–1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship
12 An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century
13 Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House
14 Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893–1970): A Lady’s Collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans
Index

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