TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anishanslin,Zara
TI  - Portrait of a woman in silk: hidden histories of the British Atlantic world 
SN  - 9780300220551
AV  - HF3093 .A55 2016
U1  - 970.03 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Garthwaite, Anna Maria,
KW  - Julins, Simon,
KW  - Willing, Anne Shippen,
KW  - Feke, Robert,
KW  - Weaving
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Silk
KW  - Painting, American
KW  - New England
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - United States
KW  - British
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region
KW  - Tissage
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Soie
KW  - Peinture américaine
KW  - Nouvelle-Angleterre
KW  - Britanniques
KW  - Culture matérielle
KW  - Atlantique, Région de l'
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - America
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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."--
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