Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world /

"Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anishanslin, Zara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Garthwaite, Anna Maria, > 1688-1763.
Julins, Simon, > approximately 1688-1778.
Willing, Anne Shippen, > 1710-1791.
Feke, Robert, > approximately 1705-1750.
1700-1799
To 1799
Weaving > England > History > 18th century.
Silk > England > History > 18th century.
Painting, American > New England > 18th century.
Clothing and dress > United States > History > 18th century.
British > Material culture > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Tissage > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Soie > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Peinture américaine > Nouvelle-Angleterre > 18e siècle.
Britanniques > Culture matérielle > Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Weaving.
Silk.
Painting, American.
Clothing and dress.
Commerce.
Manners and customs.
Great Britain > Commerce > America > History > 18th century.
America > Commerce > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire.
New England.
England.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
America.
Great Britain.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Atlantic world in a portrait
  • "Our incomparable countrywoman": Anna Maria Garthwaite, silk designer. Anna Maria Garthwaite, 1688-1763
  • The clergyman's daughter with a designer's imagination: British landscapes, natural history networks, and the artistry of Anna Maria Garthwaite
  • "An English and even a female hand": Anglo-French rivalry and the gendered politics of flowered silk
  • Designing the botanical landscape of empire: "curious" plants, "Indian" textiles, and colonial consumers
  • "An inventive and pushing genius": Simon Julins, master weaver. Simon Julins, c. 1686/8-1778
  • Industry, idleness, and protest: the Spitalfields weaver as guild member and cultural symbol
  • "Boys and girls and all": male consumers, female producers, and colonial sericulture
  • "Mrs. Mayoress": Anne Shippen Willing, wearer. Anne Shippen Willing, 1710-1791
  • "As I am an American": performing colonial merchant power
  • Hanging the portrait: the colonial merchant's townhouse
  • Emulating colonists: scandal, regality, and sister portraits
  • "Tolerably well by the force of genius": Robert Feke, painter. Robert Feke, c. 1707-c. 1751
  • The Bermuda Group in Newport: George Berkeley and Feke's painterly craft
  • Painting New Eden in New England: Massachusetts merchants, Milton, and violent refinement
  • "'Tis said the arts delight to travel westward": Newport merchants, Redwood Library, and the rise of arts and learning
  • Death and rebirth. 1763: Unraveling empire
  • Coda: 1791.

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