TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winterbottom,Anna
AU  - Dickenson,Victoria
AU  - Cartwright,Ben
AU  - Williams,Lauren
TI  - Women, environment, and networks of empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras 
SN  - 9780228019879
AV  - ND496 .W65 2023
U1  - 759.2 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Montreal, Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Gwillim, Elizabeth,
KW  - Symonds, Mary,
KW  - Women painters
KW  - India
KW  - Chennai
KW  - Biography
KW  - Painters
KW  - Women
KW  - British
KW  - Painting, British
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Watercolor painting
KW  - Wildlife painting
KW  - History
KW  - Natural history
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Chennai (India)
KW  - In art
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Art
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Elizabeth Gwillim (1763-1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772-1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now Chennai). The sisters' detailed letters fill four large volumes in the British Library; their artwork is in the Blacker Wood Natural History Collection of McGill University Library in Canada and in the South Asia Collection in Britain. The first book about their work and lives, Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire asks what these materials reveal about nature, society, and environment in early nineteenth-century South India. Gwillim and Symonds left for India in 1801, following the appointment of Elizabeth's husband, Henry Gwillim, to the Supreme Court of Madras. Their paintings document, on one hand, the rapidly expanding colonial city of Madras and its population and, on the other, the natural environment and wildlife of the city. Gwillim's paintings of birds are remarkable for their detail, naturalism, and accuracy. In their studies of natural history, Gwillim and Symonds relied on the expertise of Indian bird-catchers, fishermen, physicians, artists, and translators, contributing to a unique intersection of European and Asian natural knowledge. The sisters' extensive correspondence demonstrates how women shaped networks of trade and scholarship through exchanges of plants, books, textiles, and foods. In Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire an interdisciplinary group of scholars use the paintings and writings of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds to explore natural history, the changing environment, colonialism, and women's lives at the turn of the nineteenth century."--
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