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

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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