Recent Reviews Posted at BSECS
Recent reviews at BSECS:
A Will of Their Own: Judith Sargent Murray and Women of Achievement in the Early Republic
Location: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Event Date: August 2012
Reviewed By: Linda Troost, Washington & Jefferson College
A pantheon presenting the female face of the Early American Republic.
Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from Eighteenth-Century France
Location: Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury
Event Date: July 2012
Reviewed By: Jennifer Thorp, New College, Oxford
The long eighteenth century, as told via the revealing medium of the board game.
Pieces of Wedgwood
Location: State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Event Date: July 2012
Reviewed By: Mark de Vitis, University of Sydney & National Art School, Sydney
A compact but illuminating reminder of Wedgwood’s Australian connection.
Physionotraces: galerie de portraits, de la Révolution à l’Empire
Location: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Event Date: July 2012
Reviewed By: Dr Kate Grandjouan, The Courtauld Institute of Art
A diminutive yet potent display tracing the development of a revolutionary form of portraiture.
The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland
Location: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Event Date: June 2012
Reviewed By: Carly Collier, University of Warwick
This exciting exhibition about a defining event in Grand Tour history delivers the treasures of thorough archival research.
Jane Austen’s Bookshop – An Exhibition
Location: Chawton House Library, Alton, Hampshire
Event Date: June 2012
Reviewed By: Judyta Frodyma, University of Oxford
Chawton House charms with an exhibition that brings the thriving network of eighteenth-century regional print culture back to life.
The Comte de Vaudreuil: Courtier and Collector
Location: National Gallery, London
Event Date: June 2012
Reviewed By: Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, The Courtauld Institute of Art
A tiny exhibition with big potential, offering an innovative glimpse into eighteenth-century collecting practices.
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