Women's Agency and Embroidery With Anne Dunlop

This lecture focuses on an embroidered panel with two royal figures surrounded by birds, animals, and flowers in many different scales. The panel has been studied as a kind of hidden Royalist message after the execution of Charles I in 1649. Yet in the early modern period, such embroidery was widely made by aristocratic girls and women.

Prof Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne and a specialist of medieval and early modern European art, will explore the ways in which such embroidery work can be tied to female artistic production, and their participation in an emerging culture of natural history and science.

Image: courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria.