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Marking Time - Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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Marking Time - Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800 (Hardcover)
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An engaging, encyclopedic account of the material world of early
modern Britain as told through a unique collection of dated objects
The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary
social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself
was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused
exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and
decorative artworks, this beautifully designed volume explores that
theme and the variety of ways that individual notions of time and
mortality shifted. The feature uniting these more than 450 varied
objects is that each one bears a specific date, which marks a
significant moment-for reasons personal or professional, religious
or secular, private or public. From paintings to porringers,
teapots to tape measures, the objects-and the stories they
tell-offer a vivid sense of the lived experience of time, while
providing a sweeping survey of the material world of early modern
Britain. Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art
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