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Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world

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Preface                                                                                                            7

1 QUEEN VICTORIA: A LIFE IN JEWELLERY                                         12

2 THE ROLE OF JEWELLERY, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE                         80

3 JEWELLERY AND DRESS                                                                     110

4 THE LANGUAGE OF JEWELLERY                                                      150

5 THE CULT OF NOVELTY                                                                     188

What the papers say: jewellery and topical events                                          197

Jewellery and scientific or technical inventions                                                200

The impact of the stage                                                                                 214

Surprise, deception and not so hidden messages                                            218

Nature imitating nature: jewellery and animal products                                   225

6 BRITAIN AND THE WORLD                                                                248

The International Exhibitions                                                                         250

Links with the East: India, the Islamic world, China and Japan                       294

The role of `peasant' and regional jewellery from Continental Europe             316

7 NATIONALISM AND HISTORICAL STYLES IN JEWELLERY         330

Historical revival jewellery in England                                                            337

Historicism in France: style romantique and Renaissance revival                     354

Germany and the passion for Alt-Deutsch'                                                     367

8 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY 374

The Egyptian revival                                                                                     379

The Assyrian revival                                                                                     387

The Castellani and the Italian Risorgimento                                                    398

The influence of Castellani outside Italy                                                         426

The Scandinavian revival                                                                               437

The Celtic revival and Irish national identity                                                   444

The recreation of tradition in Scotland                                                           454

9 VICTORIAN CAMEOS                                                                          462

10 SOUVENIRS OF TRAVEL AT HOME AND ABROAD                      482

Notes                                                                                                           506

Bibliography                                                                                                 539

Illustration acknowledgements                                                                       545

Index                                                                                                           547

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Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world

Writer : Gere Charlotte - Rudoe Judy

Editor : The British Muséum

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Pub year : 2010

Pages : 552

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Includes colors : 500

Binding : Relié sous jaquette

Language : Anglais

ISBN : 978-0-7141-2819-1

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EAN : 9780714128191

In the age of Queen Victoria, jewellery, more than any other branch of the applied arts, reflected the preoccupations and aspirations of its owners. This revelatory, wide-ranging book : "Jewellery in the age of Queen Victoria a mirror to the world" by Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe explores how the Victorians used jewellery and what it meant to them, both literally and metaphorically. The intrinsic value of jewellery is only one aspect of its importance to its owners, for whom it could also display fashion, celebrate events, express mourning, or send intimate messages, often with pieces of little or no monetary value at all. Novelists used jewellery to add a moral or symbolic dimension to a character, white jewels depicted in portraits disclosed multiple meanings, which could be immediately decoded by the viewer. The book shows how the achievements of science, the fascination with nature, the impact of topical events or popular entertainment and the Victorian sense of humour are all embodied in jewellery, and illuminates the Victorian passion for cameos. The 'age of Victoria' is here used in its widest sense to encompass jewellery made not only in Britain, but throughout Europe and in America. The opening account of the life of Queen Victoria as seen through her jewellery establishes the influence of the royal family and provides a context for the topics that follow. These cover the central role played by jewellery in all aspects of Victorian life and culture, from its relationship with dress to its use as a political tool at the great world's fairs. The trade that such exhibitions fostered, combined with a burgeoning tourist industry, meant that jewellery from all parts of the world became familiar and had a profound effect on existing fashions. Nineteenth-century plundering of the past for inspiration is often seen as betraying a lack of ideas, but this book reveals the way in which the styles of former ages were appropriated in jewellery as much as other art forms by European countries struggling to create a national identity.

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