The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art NEWSLETTER

Yale University September 2013 Issue 37

One Object, Three Voices

Rood screen canopy, St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Photograph courtesy of Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute

In the autumn, the Paul Mellon Centre is launching a designed to bring different forms of analysis into new series of occasional research seminars with the title productive and stimulating dialogue. One Object, Three Voices. In these seminars three speakers The first such seminar, which will take place on 20th with different perspectives on the visual arts will discuss November 2013, will focus on the great medieval painted a single object of mutual interest. The seminars, which Rood Screen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. This has will take place three times a year and feature recently been the subject of a major conservation project. contributions from academic art-historians, curators, For more details on this seminar, and on featured conservators, historians and art-trade professionals, are speakers, see overleaf.

The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Mark Hallett Deputy Director of Studies: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Finance and Administration: Sarah Ruddick Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist and Records Manager: Charlotte Brunskill Archives and Library Assistant: Jenny Hill Picture Researcher/ Richard Wilson Online Project Assistant: Maisoon Rehani Events Coordinator and Director’s Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Nermin Abdulla IT Officer: Zulqarnain Swaleh Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Senior Research Fellows, Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, Alex Kidson, Eric Shanes, Paul Spencer-Longhurst Advisory Council: Iwona Blazwick, Alixe Bovey, David Peters Corbett, Penelope Curtis, Michael Hatt, Nigel Llewellyn, Richard Marks, Andrew Moore, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson, Shearer West, Alison Yarrington Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Research Programmes Autumn 2013

RESEARCH SEMINARS RESEARCH LUNCHES

Wednesdays, 5.45–7.45 PM Fridays, 12.30–2.00 PM

Our autumn series of research seminars will feature The autumn programme of research lunches is geared to papers given by distinguished historians of British art doctoral students and junior scholars working on the and architecture. Seminars typically take the form of history of British art and architecture. They are intended hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are to be informal events in which individual doctoral geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade students and scholars talk for half-an-hour about their professionals and research students working on the projects, and engage in animated discussion with their history of British art. This autumn the series also peers. A sandwich lunch will be provided by the Centre. includes a new category of seminar entitled One Object, We hope that this series will help foster a sense of Three Voices, see 20th November below. community amongst PhD students and junior colleagues from a wide range of institutions, and bring researchers 2nd October together in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. Michael Rosenthal (University of Warwick) Edward Close in Australia: Soldier, Settler, Sketcher 11th October Beatrice Bertram (University of York): 16th October Redressing William Etty (1787-1849) Glenn Adamson (Victoria & Albert Museum) Staging Memory: Ruskin, Morris and the Invention of Craft 1st November Francesca Whitlum-Cooper (Courtauld Institute of Art) 6th November Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard Sarah Turner (The Paul Mellon Centre) (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in From Ajanta to Sydenham: Indian art, imperial pageants and London international exhibitions in early twentieth-century London 8th November 20th November Clare Backhouse (NYU) ONE OBJECT, THREE VOICES Straws and Superficials: Clothing the Body in The Rood Sceen at St Helen’s Church, Ranworth. Seventeenth-Century Broadside Ballads. Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton-Kerr Institute) Paul Binski (University of Cambridge) 22nd November Nicholas Gerrard (St Helen’s Church, Ranworth) Shaun Wilcock (University of York) Val Prinsep (1838-1904) and the Politics of the Indian Royal 27th November Portrait at the Imperial Assemblage of 1877 Catherine Bernard (Université Paris Diderot) Sensation (in)to intelligence: the politics of visuality in 6th December contemporary English art Tom Edwards (Abbott and Holder) Amongst the Grand Tourists: Richard Cooper Jnr’s (1740-1822) album of Italian drawings’ Details about the Research Seminars and Research Lunches can also be found on the Centre’s website. It is essential that all of those who intend coming to To receive regularly updated news on future research individual research seminars and research lunches events to be held at the Centre, please contact Ella email the Centre’s Events Co-ordinator, Ella Fleming, Fleming on [email protected] [email protected] at least two days in advance. and ask to be placed on our email mailing list. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE Staff News DR SARAH TURNER has been appointed to the new research. She is looking post of Assistant Director for Research at the Paul forward to working with Mellon Centre and will take up the position in November colleagues at the Paul this year, after five years in the History of Art Mellon Centre in formu- Department at the University of York. lating new digital projects. Sarah’s research focuses on art and visual culture in At the Centre, she will Britain and the British Empire in the 19th and 20th also be taking a major centuries, particularly relationships between Britain and role in conceiving and India. Her forthcoming book is provisionally entitled organising the Centre’s Indian Impressions: Encounters with South Asia in British Art, programme of seminars, c. 1900-1940. workshops, lunchtime talks, Developing from her MA in Sculpture Studies at the and conferences. She will University of Leeds, Sarah also continues to work on also be continuing her own sculpture in this period; she is a member of the Advisory scholarly research. Board for Tate’s new project on the sculptural practices Sarah commented: ‘It is a huge honour to be invited to of Henry Moore and is contributing to the forthcoming join the staff at the Paul Mellon Centre in London. I am show on Victorian sculpture at the Yale Center for British particularly excited about expanding the PMC’s web Art and Tate. Sarah has worked on a number of other presence and working on innovative digital research exhibitions including Gilbert & George (Tate Modern, projects.’ Mark Hallett, Director of Studies at the Centre, 2009) and William Etty: Art & Controversy (York Art said: ‘I am extremely pleased that Sarah is going to be Gallery, 2011). She developed an online version of this joining us; she is a brilliant, broad-ranging and dynamic latter display. scholar who will undoubtedly make a hugely positive Sarah is a passionate advocate for the role of digital contribution to our activities. We very much look forward media in promoting and contributing to art historical to welcoming her in November.’

Spotlight on Yale in London YALE IN LONDON is a study abroad programme offered to undergraduate students at Yale University. Students have the opportunity to spend an entire term in the spring, or one of two more intensive six-week summer sessions, based at the Paul Mellon Centre, living and learning in the heart of London. The programme offers students courses on a variety of subjects that are all thematically linked through their focus on Britain and British culture. The 2013 summer sessions, for example, featured courses on the British monarchy, church architecture, Hogarth, and British theatre, and included visits to current London theatre. Courses are taught by a combination of Yale and British faculty members and qualify for credits toward Yale University degrees. There are regular visits to see plays, palaces, country houses and gardens, churches, and much more, and students are encouraged both to explore and to think about the country in which they are living. We hope to see Yale in London continue to develop and maintain its role as a thriving study abroad programme, vital to the Yale experience. For more information on the programme and our 2014 courses, please see: www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/15/ www.britishart.yale.edu/education/yale-college-students /yale-in-london. Also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/YaleinLondon; and on Twitter: @YaleinLondon Yale in London Spring 2013 students Field trip to Stourhead, Summer 2005 Session 2 THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

The King’s Pictures: The Formation The City and the King: Magnificent Entertainments: and Dispersal of the Collections of Architecture and Politics in Temporary Architecture for Georgian Charles I and His Courtiers Restoration London Festivals Francis Haskell Christine Stevenson Melanie Doderer-Winkler

With a foreword by Nicholas Penny The City of London is a jurisdiction A thoroughly original study of Edited and with an introduction by whose relationship with the English ephemeral architecture and design Karen Serres monarchy has sometimes been which examines the spectacular turbulent. This fascinating book displays created for large-scale public The greatest paintings in today’s explores how architecture was used to celebrations in the Georgian period. most famous museums were once part renew and redefine a relationship The book focuses on a number of of a fluid exchange determined by essential to both parties in the wake of specific events – battle victories and volatile political fortunes. In the first two momentous events: the Restoration birthday fêtes – that employed elaborate half of the 17th century, masterpieces of the monarchy in 1660 and the Great decorative measures to outshine the by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, Fire six years later. Spotlighting typical festivities of the day. Some of among others, were the objects of little-known projects alongside such these transformed existing venues into fervent pursuit by art connoisseurs. landmarks as Christopher Wren’s St. unfamiliar marvels; at other times, Francis Haskell traces the fate of Paul’s Cathedral, it explores how they completely new settings were devised collections extracted from Italy, Spain were made to bear meaning. It draws on for short-lived occasions. Drawing on and France by King Charles I and his a range of evidence wide enough to sources such as commemorative prints, circle which, after a brief stay in match architecture’s resonances for its newspaper accounts and diary entries, Britain, were largely dispersed after protagonists: paintings, prints and the book investigates how essential the Civil War to princely galleries poetry, sermons and civic ceremony these fanciful designs were in creating across the Continent. From vivid case mediated and politicised buildings and events with lasting impact and popular studies of individual collectors, built space, as did direct (and sometimes appeal. The author also delves into the advisers and artists, and acute violent) action. The City and the King various materials used for construction analysis of personality and motive, offers a nuanced understanding of and embellishment, applications of Haskell challenges ideas about this architecture’s place in early modern sugar, sand, marble dust or chalk lent episode in British cultural life and English culture. It casts new light on luster and colour to surfaces, while traces some of the factors that forever the reign of Charles II, as on the stand-alone firework temples and changed the artistic map of Europe. universal mechanisms of construction, temporary reception rooms were often decoration and destruction through crafted of little more than wood, canvas, Francis Haskell (1928–2000) was one which we give our monuments paint and paste. of the most influential art historians of significance. . the 20th century. He expanded the Melanie Doderer-Winkler is an discipline to include the study of Christine Stevenson is senior lecturer independent scholar and a former patronage and collecting, the formation at the Courtauld Institute of Art, furniture specialist at Christie’s, of museums and canons of taste. University of London. London.

September September September 256 pp. 270x217mm. 304 pp. 256x192mm. 320 pp. 292x241mm. 80 colour + 40 b/w illus. 23 colour + 115 b/w illus. 133 colour + 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19012-0 £30.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-19022-9 £45.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-18642-0 £40.00 PUBLICATIONS THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE

The Sheldonian Theatre: Landscapes of London: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Architecture and Learning in The City, the Country and the Scotland: A History Seventeenth-Century Oxford Suburbs 1660–1840 Annette Carruthers Anthony Geraghty Elizabeth McKellar

A jewel of the University of Oxford, the The idea of a ‘Greater London’ This authoritative book is the first to Sheldonian Theatre stands out among emerged in the 18th century with the chronicle the Arts and Crafts the groundbreaking designs by the expansion of the city’s suburbs. movement in Scotland. Arts and great British architect Sir Christopher Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth Crafts ideas appeared there from the Wren. Published to coincide with the back to the 17th century, when 1860s, but not until after 1890 did 350th anniversary of the building’s domestic retreats were established in they emerge from artistic circles and construction, this meticulously outlying areas. This transitional zone rise to popularity among the wider researched book takes a fresh look at the was occupied and shaped by the urban public. The heyday of the movement, historical influences that shaped the middle class as much as by the elite between 1890 and 1914, was a time Sheldonian’s development, including who built villas there. McKellar when Scotland’s art schools the Restoration of the English provides the first major inter- energetically promoted new design monarchy and the university’s disciplinary cultural history of this and the Scottish Home Industries commitment to episcopal religion. The area, analysing it in relation to key Association campaigned to revive book explains just how novel Wren’s architectural and planning debates and rural crafts. The movement influenced design was in its day, in part because the to concepts of national, social and the look of domestic and church academic theatre was a building type gender identities. She draws on a wide buildings, as well as the stained glass, without precedent in England, and in range of source materials, including metalwork, textiles and other part because the Sheldonian’s classical prints, paintings, maps, poetry, songs, furnishings that adorned them. Art style stood apart in its university newspapers, guidebooks and other schools, workshops and associations context. The author also points to a popular literature, as well as buildings helped shape the Arts and Crafts shift in the guiding motivation behind and landscapes. The author suggests style, as did individuals such as Ann the architecture at Oxford: from a that these suburban landscapes – the Macbeth, W. R. Lethaby, Robert tradition that largely perpetuated first in the world – were a new Lorimer, M. H. Baillie Scott, Douglas medieval forms to one that conceived environment, but one in which the Strachan, Phoebe Traquair and James classical architecture in relation to vernacular, the rustic and the historic Cromar Watt. These architects, late Renaissance learning. Newly played a substantial part, the artists, and designers contributed to commissioned photographs showcase forerunner of the complex, multi- the expansion and evolution of the the theatre’s recently restored interior. faceted modern cities of today. movement both within and beyond Scotland’s borders. Anthony Geraghty is senior lecturer Elizabeth McKellar is Senior in the history of art at the University Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Art Annette Carruthers is a senior of York. History at the Open University. lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.

September December October 168 pp. 256x192mm. 256 pp. 285x245mm. 468 pp. 285x245mm. 40 colour + 10 b/w illus. 24 colour + 120 b/w illus. 100 colour + 250 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19504-0 £35.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-10913-9 £45.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-19576-7 £60.00 THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

From Still Life to the Screen: Exhibiting Englishness: SURVEY OF LONDON Print Culture, Display, and the John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery Volumes 49 and 50 BATTERSEA Materiality of the Image in and the Formation of a National Eighteenth-Century London Aesthetic The south London parish of Battersea Joseph Monteyne Rosie Dias has its roots as a working village, growing produce for London markets, This book explores the print culture In the late 18th century, as a wave of and as a high-class suburb, with of 18th-century London, focusing on English nationalism swept the merchants’ villas on the elevated the correspondences between images country, the printseller John Boydell ground around Clapham and and consumer objects. In his lively set out to create an ambitious Wandsworth Commons. Battersea and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne exhibition space, one devoted to enjoyed spectacular growth during considers such themes as the display promoting and fostering a distinctly Queen Victoria’s reign, and railroads of objects in still lifes and markets, the English style of history painting. brought industry and a robust connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the With its very name, the Shakespeare building boom. The two latest fusion of body and ornament in satires Gallery signalled to Londoners that volumes of the Survey of London of fashion. The desire for goods the artworks on display shared an trace Battersea’s development from emerged in tandem with modern undisputed quality and a national medieval times to the present day. notions of identity, in which things spirit. The responses of key artists of Offering detailed analysis of its were seen to mirror and symbolise the the period to Boydell’s venture shed streets and buildings, the books are a self. Prints, particularly graphic new light on the gallery’s role in the trove of architectural and British satires by such artists as Matthew and larger context of British art. The history. Profusely illustrated with new Mary Darly, James Gillray, William book analyses the works of such and archival images, architectural Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and artists as Joshua Reynolds, Henry drawings and maps, these volumes are Paul Sandby, were actively involved in Fuseli, James Northcote, Robert welcome additions to the acclaimed this shift. Many of these images Smirke, Thomas Banks and William Survey of London series. reveal the recurring motif of image Hamilton, laying out their diverse display, whether on screens, by magic ways of expressing notions of Andrew Saint, vol. 49, is the general lanterns, or in ‘raree-shows’ and individualism, humour, eccentricity editor of the Survey of London and the print-shop windows. The author links and naturalism. It also argues that author of Richard Norman Shaw. this motif to new conceptions of the Boydell’s gallery radically redefined Colin Thom, vol. 50, is senior historian, self, specifically through the the dynamics of display and cultural Survey of London, English Heritage. penetration of spectacle into everyday aesthetics at that time, shaping both experience. an English school of painting and 49: Public, Commercial and Cultural modern exhibition practices. November 520 pp. 286x222mm. Joseph Monteyne is associate 200 colour + 250 b/w illus. professor in the history of art at the Rosie Dias is associate professor in HB ISBN 978-0-300-19616-0 £75.00 University of British Columbia. the history of art at the University of 50: Houses and Housing Warwick. November 520 pp. 286x222mm. 200 colour + 250 b/w illus. August August HB ISBN 978-0-300-19617-7 £75.00 288 pp. 256x192mm. 288 pp. 256x192mm. 55 colour + 101 b/w illus. 50 colour + 95 b/w illus. 2-volume set HB ISBN 978-0-300-19635-1 £35.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-19668-9 £45.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-19813-3 £135.00 COLLECTIONS THE PAUL MELLON CENTRE Collections News

A selection of materials from the Library Collection relating to Chatsworth

Millar’s observations on a visit to Chatsworth House in 1947, p. 57, Notebook IV, Oliver Millar Archive

RESEARCHING THE COUNTRY HOUSE After a recent Research Lunch, on 24th May given by One of the key subject strengths of the collections is Jocelyn Anderson on ‘Ornaments and Honours: Country material relating to the Country House. The Library’s Houses as Cultural Treasures in the Eighteenth holdings are particularly strong in this area and include Century’, Collections’, staff spoke to participants about books on the history of country houses and their material of relevance to the subject held in the Library, architecture and collections; multiple editions of guides to Archive and Photographic Archive. A display of carefully individual houses; family histories; and auction catalogues selected items was made available in the Public Study of country house ‘on the premises’ sales. Materials on such Room, organised into several groups of material, each complementary subjects as garden design, interior focusing on a particular house or collection: Blenheim decoration, and furniture are also collected. Palace; Castle Howard; Ickworth; Strawberry Hill; and In the Archive, the notebooks of Sir Oliver Millar Chatsworth. The section on the latter, for example, (1923-2007) are a significant resource. Millar worked in included country-house guides dating from the 1970s, in the Royal Household from 1947, eventually becoming some cases interleaved with room guides, and books Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures (1972-1988). Through - dating from the late nineteenth century onwards. These out this time, and almost until his death, he maintained a items were complemented by the Oliver Millar notebooks series of notebooks in which he documented his which include many pages of detailed references made observations and opinions on the art and related material during visits to Chatsworth in 1948 and 1997 and which he viewed in private and public collections in the UK and include diagrams of decorative features on the walls and all over the world. There are 30 notebooks in total, which ceilings of several locations in the house. A file of images Millar meticulously indexed by both collection and artist. from the PMC’s Photographic Archive, including images The material is an incredible resource for scholars, who are taken in Chatsworth of decorative panels in various able to pinpoint relevant material with ease. rooms, completed the display. The Brinsley Ford Archive also contains material of Collections staff are happy to provide tours for scholars. value for researchers interested in the country house. Sir Please contact us on: [email protected]. Brinsley Ford (1908-1999) was a gentleman-scholar, connoisseur and collector who spent over 40 years researching the Grand Tour. His archive contains a series Fellowships and Grants of files (828 in total) pertaining to British and Irish New Mid-Career Fellowship Announced travellers to Italy in the eighteenth century. The files are A new category of fellowship aimed at Mid-Career full of information about travellers who, inspired by the scholars will be instigated from the academic year architecture they saw, returned home to develop their 2014/2015 to bridge the perceived gap between our own estates. They also contain information on the art, Senior and Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Paul Mellon books, pictures, sculpture, and items of culture, which Centre plans to award three Mid-Career Fellowships were acquired on the tour and shipped home for display annually, they will each carry funding of £12,000 and in country houses all over the United Kingdom. will be for a four-month period. The closing date for all As well as containing images of paintings and our 2014/2015 fellowships is 15 January 2014. sculpture in country houses, the Centre’s Photographic Further details and application forms can be found at Archive contains two other useful sequences of material: www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/17/ the Decorative Painting section, which includes images of town and country house interiors; and the Sculpture by Closing date reminder Location section which contains images of country house The closing date for the Autumn round of grants is 15 collections of sculpture. September 2013. Full details and application forms are on our website at www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/179/ For complete details of the following exhibitions and yale center for british art programs, please visit britishart.yale.edu, phone 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 USA +1 203 432 2800, or email [email protected].

EXHIBITIONS LECTURES

The following have been organized by The Military Artist in Jamaica the Yale Center for British Art. and India: Abraham James and the Representation of Sculpture by Nicola Hicks Colonial Martial Masculinity 14 NOVEMBER 2013–9 MARCH 2014 The work of British sculptor Nicola FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER, 5:30 PM Hicks, MBE, is almost exclusively K. Dian Kriz, Professor Emerita of Art concerned with animals. Her striking, History, Brown University often life-size creatures are typically In this keynote lecture for The Ends executed in straw and plaster, and of War, the 2013 conference of the often cast in bronze. This exhibition Northeast American Society for brings together seven works by Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dian Kriz Hicks, which will be displayed examines images of the martial body amidst works from the Center’s by an amateur artist and professional permanent collection. The exhibition soldier at the turn of the nineteenth has been selected by Nicola Hicks century. in conjunction with Martina Droth, Associate Director of Research and Education and Curator of Sculpture Authorial Identity and the at the Center, with Lars Kokkonen, Languages of Late Elizabethan Nicola Hicks, Black, 2008, bronze, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the and Jacobean Portraiture © Nicola Hicks. Courtesy Flowers Gallery Department of Research. WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER, 5:30 PM Tarnya Cooper, Chief Curator, National BUILDING CONSERVATION Art in Focus: Portrait Gallery, London The first phase of the Center’s St Ives Abstraction building conservation project began This talk will explore how the in the summer and is expected to STUDENT GUIDE EXHIBITION growth of interest in portraiture in continue until January 2014. During THROUGH 29 SEPTEMBER the late sixteenth century provoked this time, the Center (including Curated by Yale undergraduates in the the invention of different modes of the Reference Library and Museum Student Guide Program and drawn portrayal. from the Center’s collections, this Shop) is open for its regular hours and the fourth-floor galleries exhibition focuses on paintings and The Ladies Library: sculptures by artists working in St Ives displaying the Center’s collection of in the mid-twentieth century. Artists Or, Benjamin Franklin’s British art through 1850 remain on featured include Ben Nicholson, Sister’s Books view. However, access to the Prints and Drawings, and Rare Books and Barbara Hepworth, John Wells, Roger FRIDAY, 8 NOVEMBER, 5:30 PM Hilton, and Patrick Heron. Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Manuscripts collections is available Jill Lepore, Professor of American by appointment only, and two weeks’ History, Harvard University advance notice will be necessary. PUBLICATION Due to the extensive work on the build- William Henry Fox Talbot: The author of Book of Ages: The Life ing, the next cycle of Visiting Scholar and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore Beyond Photography Awards will be for the period 1 July will discuss her work reconstituting the Edited by Mirjam Brusius, Katrina 2014 to 31 December 2014. Regrettably, lost library of Benjamin Franklin’s sister. Dean, and Chitra Ramalingam, this the Center will be unable to accom- book is the twenty-third volume modate visiting scholars in 2015. in the series Studies in British Art, Sculpture by Nicola Hicks Applicants should take these restricted published by the Center and the Paul WEDNESDAY, 13 NOVEMBER, 5:30 PM dates into account when stating their Mellon Centre for Studies in British An opening conversation between preferred month(s) of tenure. Art, London, in association with Yale artist Nicola Hicks and independent art More information about the Visiting Scholar University Press. curator and writer Patterson Sims. program may be found online at britishart. yale.edu/research/visiting-scholars.