Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hardiman, Louise

Description

1. xxv, 400 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

1. "Explores the history of British-Russian state relations from the perspective of art and material culture. This richly illustrated book presents manifold practices of courtly gift-giving and vivid case studies of British-Russian artistic diplomacy over the centuries. It traces a visual and material history of cross-cultural dialogue that starts with an early English map of Russia made in the 16th century and ends with gifts of Fabergé art objects and domestic photographs exchanged between the British royal family and the family of Tsar Nicholas II in late Imperial Russia. Twelve expert authors from academia, the arts, and the museum sectors in Britain, Russia, Australia, and the United States present new narratives and critical interpretations based on material from previously unexplored archives. Their diverse approaches reveal the importance of artistic diplomacy and the agency of gifts of art and material culture in courtly and state relations"--

Series statement

1. Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands), 1877-7791 ; volume 24

Uniform title

1. Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; volume 24.

Alternative title

1. Art, material culture, and British-Russian relations

Subject

1. Cultural diplomacy > Russia > History
2. Cultural diplomacy > Great Britain > History
3. Diplomatic gifts > Russia > History
4. Diplomatic gifts > Great Britain > History
5. Cultural diplomacy
6. Diplomatic gifts
7. Diplomatic relations
8. Russia > Foreign relations > Great Britain
9. Great Britain > Foreign relations > Russia
10. Great Britain
11. Russia

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 1. Introduction: visual culture and the history of British-Russian relations / Louise Hardiman -- Part I. Art and diplomacy. 2. Art and acculturation: Sir Godfrey Kneller's portraits of Petr Potemkin (1682) and Peter the Great (1698) / Louise Hardiman ; 3. Catherine II, the Cathcarts, and Russian Anglophilia / Anthony Cross ; 4. Prince Grigorii Potemkin, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Anglo-Russian artistic diplomacy in the age of Catherine the Great / Elizaveta Renne -- Part II. The agency of gifts. 5. "Give with one hand and take with the other:" British diplomatic gifts to Russia, 1795-97 / Ekaterina Heath ; 6. Courtly splendour and cultural identity: nineteenth-century Russian imperial gifts for the British royal family / Caroline de Guitaut ; 7. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and an imperial Russian gift / Olga Sobolev ; 8. Fabergé hardstone in imperial gifting from Russia to England / Cynthia Coleman Sparke -- Part III. Travels and dialogues. 9. Gavriil Skorodumov and James Walker: printmaking and British-Russian relations in the late eighteenth century / Zalina Tetermazova ; 10. "Smart travels:" the encounters of Grand Duke Nicholas with British art and artists, 1816-17 / Irina Marisina ; 11. Tsar Alexander I, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and George Dawe: masculinity and the development of the St Petersburg Military Gallery / Allison Leigh -- Part IV. Dynasties and domesticities. 12. The wedding of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Maria Alexandrovna of Russia in 1874 and its visual commemoration / Stephen Patterson ; 13. Images of Nicholas II: (mis-)interpreting the last tsar / Wendy Slater.

Call number

1. JFE 23-2475

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Courtly gifts and cultural diplomacy : art, material culture, and British-Russian relations / edited by Louise Hardiman.

Publisher

1. Paderborn : Brill Schöningh, [2023]

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands), 1877-7791 ; volume 24
2. Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; volume 24.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Hardiman, Louise, editor, author.

Other form:

1. 9783657793761 e-book version

Other standard identifier

1. 9783506793768

ISBN

1. 9783506793768 hardbound
2. 3506793764

Research call number

1. JFE 23-2475