Victorian Artists’ Autograph Replicas

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that replicas in the Victorian art world were among the most prolific, sought-after, and vigorously consumed objects in the Victorian art world, becoming a near industry for many artists. It examines the founding collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, which contains a critical mass of replicas, to explore the reception of and narratives about replicas within the wider context of Gilded Age criticism and collecting. The book describes Rossetti’s relationship to several prominent patrons who commissioned replicas on which Rossetti depended, having abandoned exhibiting in the 1850s, exploring each patron’s motives and taste for D. G. Rossetti’s replicas. It suggests that Abraham Abraham Solomon’s replications were in dialogue with mid-Victorian practices of exhibition, reception, and dissemination

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  Open Access•A Appadurai•Social Life of Things•1986

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