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Author Anishanslin, Zara, author.

Title Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world / Zara Anishanslin
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 421 pages) : illustrations
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
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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763.
Julins, Simon, approximately 1688-1778.
Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791.
Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750.
SUBJECT Willing, Anne Shippen, 1710-1791 fast
Garthwaite, Anna Maria, 1688-1763 fast
Feke, Robert, approximately 1705-1750 fast
Subject 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
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Weaving
Silk
Painting, American
Clothing and dress
Commerce
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Commerce -- America -- History -- 18th century
America -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Subject New England
England
Atlantic Ocean Region
America
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300220551
0300220553