Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Glasgow
Chapter title
Fidélités trompeuses: la consommation des soieries à Madrid, 1759-1788
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Publications des universités de Rouen et du Havre
Book title
Autour des Van Loo: Peinture, Commerce des Tissus et Espionnage en Europe (1250-1830)
ISBN of book
9782877755016
Year of publication
2012
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
The essay examines Spanish royal wardrobe accounts and notarial records, and French commercial correspondence, to investigate what types of silks were being consumed in 18th-century Madrid, where they came from, and the extent to which the Cinco Gremios Mayores (the major Spanish mercers) were able to control Spanish production and consumption. It reveals that French silks were readily available, even though the Spanish monarchy was intent on promoting its own manufacturing centres, and that the heir to the throne often combined French and Spanish textiles in the same garment. [On the whole Spanish and French historiographies have remained separate.]
