{"product_id":"the-art-of-mary-linwood-heidi-a-strobel-9781350428126","title":"The Art of Mary Linwood: Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1787-1845","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Mary Linwood\u003c\/i\u003eis the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of  5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idyllic imaginary journey through the countryside. Its emphasis on quintessentially British artists provided a unifying focus for a country that had recently emerged from the threat of Napoleonic invasion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings to the fore Linwood's gallery guides and previously unpublished letters to her contemporaries, such as Birmingham inventor Matthew Boulton and Queen Charlotte. It also includes the first and only catalogue of Linwood's extant and destroyed works. By examining Linwood's replicas and their accompanying objects through the lens of material culture, the book provides a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on women and cultural agency in the early 19th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi A. Strobel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350428124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350428126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Heidi A. Strobel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48444559556863,"sku":"9781350428126","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67367453-b4e3-4569-8885-676aba5b296d.jpg?v=1777213082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-mary-linwood-heidi-a-strobel-9781350428126","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}