[1] Keynote: Curious modes of production: making objects in early modern world / Pamela Smith.--[2-3] Panel 1: Walpole and Delany / Michael Snodin and Alicia Weisberg Roberts; chaired by Amy Meyers.--Panel 2: Collectors, predisciplinarity, divisions of knowledge. Quills and other feathers: Elizabeth Montagu and the matter of friendship / Elizabeth Eger [and] Paper kingdoms: Mary Delany, the Duchess of Portland, and the Consequences of collage / Janice Neri; chaired by Alicia Weisberg Roberts.--Panel 3: Collectors, predisciplinarity, divisions of knowledge II. Materials displays: porcelain and natural history in the Duchess of Portland's Museum / Stacey Sloboda; A mirror of the enlightenment: the collections of Elizabeth Seymour Percy, first Duchess of Northumberland / Adriano Aymonino; Collecting virture: the patronage and acquisitions of Richard Mead in early Georgian London / Craig Hanson; chaired by Brian Allen. -- Plenary: Curiosity future and past: Siting Horace Walpole / Stephan Bann; chaired by Margaret Powell.--[4-6] Keynote: Walpole and sculpture / Malcolm Baker; chaired by Greg Sullivan.--Panel 1: Aesthetic and/or antiquarian collecting. Collecting copies, surrogates, and misattributions / Cynthia Roman; Contrary to my system and my humour: Horace Walpole and antiquarian collecting in the 18th century / Rosemary Sweet; Eccentric collectors: Walpole, Beckford, and the Eroctics of things / George Haggerty; chaired by Tim Knox.--Final Panel discussion: Museums, collecting, predisciplinarity / malcolm Baker, Tim Knox, Kim Sloan, Michael Snodin; chaired by Luisa Calè€.
Subject Terms:
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 -- Collectors and collecting. | Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788. | Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Contributors:
Smith, Pamela H., 1957- | Meyers, Amy R. W. | Snodin, Michael. | Weisberg-Roberts, Alicia. | Eger, Elizabeth. | Neri, Janice. | Allen, Brian, 1952- | Sloboda, Stacey. | Aymonino, Adriano. | Hanson, Craig Ashley. | Bann, Stephen. | Powell, Margaret K. (Margaret Ketchum), 1947- | Baker, Malcolm, 1945- | Sullivan, Greg. | Knox, Tim. | Roman, Cynthia E. | Sweet, Rosemary. | Haggerty, George E. | Calè€, Luisa. | Sloan, Kim. | Birkbeck College. | Victoria and Albert Museum. | Yale Center for British Art. | Lewis Walpole Library.