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

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.

List of contents

Part I Artificialia and Naturalia

1. Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies' Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg
   
Anne Harbers and Andrea Gáldy


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


3. Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral
Kelsey Brosnan
Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks


4. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman's Pioneering Work in Entomology
Katharina Schmidt-Loske


5. Sarah Sophia Banks's Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange
Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills


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


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


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


10. Anne Wagner's Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship
Ryna Ordynat


11. An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
Hanneke Grootenboer
Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century


12. Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House
Anna Frances O'Regan


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

Arlene Leis

About the author

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.

Summary

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting.

Product details

• Authors: Arlene Wills Leis
• Assisted by: Arlene Leis (Editor), Kacie L. Wills (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367545390
• ISBN: 978-0-367-54539-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Europe, ART / General, ART / History / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / Financial Risk Management, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800