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

Part I Artificialia and Naturalia






Science, Gender and Collecting:The Dutch 18th century Ladies' Society for Physical Sciences of Middelburg


Anne Harbers and Andrea Galdy




Between Art and Science: Portraits of Citrus Fruit for Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici
Irina Schmiedel




Anne Vallayer-Coster's Still Life with Sea Shells and Coral
Kelsey Brosnan

Part II Travel, Borders, and Networks




Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman's Pioneering Work in Entomology
Katharina Schmidt-Loske




Sarah Sophia Banks's Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange
Erica Hayes and Kacie L. Wills




Conversing with Collecting the World: Elite Female Sociability and Learning through Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
Lizzie Rogers




Portrait of Charlotte de France: from Naples to Sicily, a Collection in Transit
Maria Antonietta Spadero

8. The Collecting Activity of Catherine II in 18th Century Russia: Pioneering Action or Sheer Demonstration of Power? Charis Ch. Avlonitou

Part III Displaying, Recording, and Cataloguing




'I made memorandums': Mary Hamilton, Sociability, and Antiquarianism in the Eighteenth-Century Collection
Madeleine Pelling




Eleanor Coade, John Soane, and the Coade Caryatid
Nicole Cochrane




Anne Wagner's Album (1795-1805): Collecting Feminine Friendship
Ryna Ordynat




An Art Cabinet in Miniature: The Dollhouse of Petronella Oortman
Hanneke Grootenboer

Part IV Beyond the Eighteenth Century




Collection, Display, and Conservation: The Print Room at Castletown House
Anna Frances O'Regan




Olivia Lanza di Mazzarino (1893-1970): A Lady's collection of Eighteenth-Century Folding Fans



Arlene Leis