16 Jul 2018 - 17 Jul 2018 All day Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge

Description

Conference organised by the ‘Making Visible‘ project at CRASSH. This event is free but booking is recommended.

The aim of this workshop is to explore the connections and networks within the wider visual worlds of the members of the early Royal Society (c. 1660-c.1710). Royal Society Fellows such as John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Povey, and William Aglionby were enthusiastic collectors of art, including prints, and were familiar with Continental collections and art theoretical works. They interacted frequently with printers, instrument makers and craftsmen, attended auctions, and made a point of donating portraits to the Society.  How did
 first-hand experience and appreciation of art, artistic skills and collections affect the way members of the Society approached and judged images and objects of knowledge? How did their engagement with the visual worlds around them compare with their Continental counter-parts? We hope to bring together historians of science, art, collections, and print culture in order to bridge the artificial and unhelpful differentiation of ‘artist’ and ‘scientific’ images in this period.

Speakers: Alexander Marr, Matthew Walker, Rebekah Higgitt, Henrietta McBurney Ryan, Sietske Fransen, Kate Bennett, Karin Leonhard & Elisa von Minnigerode, Spike Bucklow, Andrew Burnett, Frances Hughes, Katherine M. Reinhart, Katy Barrett

A small number of travel bursaries for graduate students and early career fellows from the UK and overseas are available. Please contact Judith Weik to apply, stating your affiliation and providing a brief statement as to why you would like to attend the conference. 

Programme

Monday 16 July 2018

09:00-09:30

Registration and coffee

09:30-09:40

Sachiko Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): Welcome & Introduction

09:40-11:10

Chair: Moti Feingold (Caltech)

Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge): ‘William Sanderson’s Criticism and Copying’

Matthew Walker (University of New Mexico): ‘Oblivious to the Ancient and Moderns? The Royal Society and John Evelyn’s Translation of Fréart’s Parallel’

11:10-11:30

Coffee

11:30-13:00

Chair: Richard Johns (University of York)

Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent): ‘The Making of a Medal: The Iconography and Manufacture of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, c. 1736-1742’

Henrietta McBurney Ryan (University of Cambridge): ‘Mark Catesby and the Royal Society’

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Chair: Kim Sloan (British Museum)

Sietske Fransen (University of Cambridge): ‘Netherlandish Influences on the Visual World of the Royal Society’

Kate Bennett (Magdalen College, University of Oxford): ‘John Aubrey’s Prospects’

15:30-16:00

Tea

16:00-17:30

Chair: Diana Dethloff (University College, London)

Karin Leonhard and Elisa von Minnigerode (Universität Konstanz): ‘John Finch. A Lynx with a Knife’

Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge): ‘The Paston Treasure’

Tuesday 17 July 2018

09:00-10:30

Chair: Keith Moore (Royal Society)

Andrew Burnett (British Museum): ”They found a great quantity of Roman money’. Institutions and Coin Collecting in the 17th Century’

Frances Hughes  (University of Cambridge): ‘Visual Discernment in the Calligraphy Collection of Samuel Pepys’

10:30-11:00

Coffee

11:00-12:30

Chair: Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London)

Katherine M. Reinhart (University of Cambridge): ‘Institutional Image-Makers: Richard Waller and Claude Perrault’

Katy Barrett (Curator of Art Collections, Science Museum): ‘George Gabb, ‘The Physical Laboratory of the Académie des Sciences’ and Unpicking the Visual Worlds of the Royal Society’

12:30 - 12:45

Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter): Closing Remarks

12:45

Lunch

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