Diana Scarisbrick
Diana Scarisbrick (born 1928) is an English art historian specialising in the history of engraved gems and jewellery.[1]
Scarisbrick was born in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. She worked with the antique jewellery traders S. J. Philips in London, catalogued several significant collections, published scholarly articles and books, and was elected a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1987.[2]
Scarisbrick memorably described Queen Victoria's collections of Scottish jewellery, which include polished pebbles and semi-precious stones reflecting Highland geology, as "mute travel diaries".[3]
Selected publications[edit]
- (with Benjamin Zucker), Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014).[4]
- Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs (Thames & Hudson, 2011).
- Scottish Jewellery: A Victorian Passion (London: Five Continents, 2009).
- Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty (Thames & Hudson, 2007).
- 'The Winter Queen in Exile', Country Life, (19 March 1992), pp. 70-71.
- 'Anne of Denmark's Jewellery Inventory', Archaeologia, 109 (1991), pp. 193-238. doi:10.1017/S0261340900014089
- Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery (London: Tate, 1995).
- 'Gem Connoisseurship: the 4th Earl of Carlisle's correspondence with Francesco de Ficoroni and Antonio Maria Zanetti', Burlington Magazine, 129:1007 (February 1987), pp. 90–104.
- 'Forever Adamant: A Renaissance Diamond Ring', Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 40 (1982), pp. 57–64.
References[edit]
- ^ Carla van de Puttelaar, 'Diana Scarisbrick', National Portrait Gallery
- ^ Carla van de Puttelaar: Female Voices in Art: Diana Scarisbrick, Jewellery Historian
- ^ Sarah Laurenson, The Material Landscapes of Scotland's Jewellery Craft, 1780–1914 (Bloomsbury, 2023), p. 134.
- ^ Kathrin Lassila, 'Elihu Yale, nabob', Yale Alumni Magazine, March/April, 2014