Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury (Record no. 2212)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02374 a2200241 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1138548316 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317100410.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042018GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781138548312 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 46.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | DSB |
| Source | thema |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | DSBD |
| Source | bic |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | HIS054000 |
| Source | bisac |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 942.645 |
| Source | bisac |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | H.L. Meakin |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20180425 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 412 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) was the granddaughter and niece of two of England's Lord Keepers of the Great Seal, Sir Nicholas Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon. Lady Anne was also the friend and patroness of John Donne and Joseph Hall; however, she deserves to be remembered in her own right. Within her massive country house, Lady Anne created a tiny painted room that she seems to have used as a kind of three-dimensional book. The walls consisted of panels of pictures and mottoes, grouped under Latin sentences. These panels can still be viewed in a Suffolk museum: Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich. Some panels point to classical and Biblical sources, and to popular emblem books. The sources of other panels are more recondite, while still others are original compositions by Lady Anne. The panels exhibit a contemptus mundi theme and reflect a struggle with ambition, pride, and even despair. Some panels also appear to register carefully veiled but pointed critiques of political and religious events and figures. Lady Anne's painted closet or 'architext' is thus relevant to a wide range of early modern scholarship in various disciplines but is as yet largely unappreciated. For the first time in four hundred years, this book fully describes the closet and places it in its personal, social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts. It argues for the painted closet's importance for understanding early modern conceptualizations of private and public spaces, and for illuminating fundamental early modern habits of seeing and reading (especially combinations of text and image). Finally, this book explores the closet as an example of the ingenious ways in which female subjectivity found ways to express itself even within the constraints of early modern patriarchal society in England. |
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