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Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe / edited by Arlene Leis and Kacie L. Wells.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
- The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women collectors--Europe--History--18th century.
- Women collectors.
- Collectors and collecting--Social aspects--Europe--History--18th century.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Europe--History--18th century.
- Art.
- Natural history--Catalogs and collections--Europe--History--18th century.
- Natural history.
- Natural history--Catalogs and collections.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- History.
- Collectors and collecting--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 194 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Women and the cultures of collecting
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Women and the art and science of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe.
- ISBN:
- 9780367856670
- 0367856670
- 9781000175189
- 1000175189
- 9781000175226
- 1000175227
- 9781000175202
- 1000175200
- Publisher Number:
- 40030154574
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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