The Resource Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world, Zara Anishanslin
Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world, Zara Anishanslin
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- Summary
- 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 production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain's few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant's wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 421 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780300234237
- Label
- Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world
- Title
- Portrait of a woman in silk
- Title remainder
- hidden histories of the British Atlantic world
- Statement of responsibility
- Zara Anishanslin
- Subject
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- America -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- British -- Material culture -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Clothing and dress
- Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Commerce
- Economic history
- England
- Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750
- Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750
- Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763
- Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Commerce -- America -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- 1700-1799
- Julins, Simon, approximately 1688-1778
- Material culture
- Material culture -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- New England
- Painting, American
- Painting, American -- New England -- 18th century
- Silk
- Silk -- England -- History -- 18th century
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Weaving
- Weaving -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791
- Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791
- History
- America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain's few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant's wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Anishanslin, Zara
- Dewey number
- 970.03
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- HF3093
- E18.82
- LC item number
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- .A55 2016
- .A55 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Garthwaite, Anna Maria
- Julins, Simon
- Willing, Anne Shippen
- Feke, Robert
- Feke, Robert
- Garthwaite, Anna Maria
- Willing, Anne Shippen
- Weaving
- Silk
- Painting, American
- Clothing and dress
- British
- Material culture
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- America
- United States
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- Clothing and dress
- Commerce
- Economic history
- Material culture
- Painting, American
- Silk
- Weaving
- America
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- England
- Great Britain
- New England
- United States
- Label
- Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world, Zara Anishanslin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-401) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn926820725
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 421 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300234237
- Lccn
- 2015955526
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world, Zara Anishanslin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-401) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn926820725
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 421 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300234237
- Lccn
- 2015955526
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
Subject
- America -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Atlantic Ocean Region
- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- British -- Material culture -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- Clothing and dress
- Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Commerce
- Economic history
- England
- Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750
- Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750
- Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763
- Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Commerce -- America -- History -- 18th century
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- 1700-1799
- Julins, Simon, approximately 1688-1778
- Material culture
- Material culture -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
- New England
- Painting, American
- Painting, American -- New England -- 18th century
- Silk
- Silk -- England -- History -- 18th century
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Weaving
- Weaving -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791
- Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791
- History
- America
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