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7 - “Joineriana”

The Small Fragments and Parts of Eighteenth-Century Assemblages

from Part II - Small Things in Time and Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

Chloe Wigston Smith
Affiliation:
University of York
Beth Fowkes Tobin
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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This chapter examines the complex physical relations that characterized a range of eighteenth-century literary, visual, and material objects that attached small fragments together into a new larger form. Arguing that these created a dynamic dialogue of part and whole, it explores how the process of joining allowed small fragments, displayed and placed together, to materialize emotional connection. It focuses on four key material forms: the production of herbaria; a series of collaged stained-glass windows at Plas Newydd, the home of the “Ladies of Llangollen,” Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831), in Llangollen, North Wales; the interior decoration and furnishings of A la Ronde, in Exmouth, Devon, home to cousins Jane and Mary Parminter (1750–1811 and 1767–1849); and the creation of eighteenth-century patchwork.

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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
, pp. 109 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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