Elizabeth M Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth M Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Using a single material object, a portrait of a woman wearing an English silk damask gown in a North American colony, Zara Anishanslin lays out four biographical narratives to illustrate a ‘kind of additional empire’ within the British Atlantic World, showing how material objects left behind are evidence of a visual sensus communis (p. 11). The portrait reveals many things: the subject’s status as a ‘colonial woman of quality’ (p. 7); the role of…
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Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Using a single material object, a portrait of a woman wearing an English silk damask gown in a North American colony, Zara Anishanslin lays out four biographical narratives to illustrate a ‘kind of additional empire’ within the British Atlantic World, showing how material objects left behind are evidence of a visual sensus communis (p. 11). The portrait reveals many things: the subject’s status as a ‘colonial woman of quality’ (p. 7); the role of…
Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Atlantic World (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · British Empire (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Empire (1 work) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 work)