Diana Scarisbrick
Diana Scarisbrick (1928–2024) was 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,[2] and was elected a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1987.[3]
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".[4]
Diana Scarisbrick died on 30 December 2024.
Selected publications
[edit]- Diamond jewelry : 700 years of glory and glamour (London : Thames and Hudson, 2019).
- (with John Boardman and Claudia Wagner), The Guy Ladrière Collection of Gems and Rings (London : Philip Wilson, 2016).
- (with Benjamin Zucker), Elihu Yale: Merchant, Collector & Patron (London: Thames & Hudson, 2014).[5]
- 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).
- (with Takayuki Tōyama), Historic rings : four thousand years of craftsmanship (Tokyo ; London : Kodansha International, 2004).
- (with Martin Henig), Finger rings : from ancient to modern (Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2003).
- '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).
- Jewellery in Britain 1066 - 1837 : a documentary, social, literary and artistic survey (Wilby : Michael Russell, 1994).
- Jewellery : makers, motifs, history, techniques (London : Thames and Hudson, 1989).
- '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.
- (with John Boardman), The Ralph Harari collection of finger rings (London : Thames and Hudson, 1977).
References
[edit]- ^ Carla van de Puttelaar, 'Diana Scarisbrick', National Portrait Gallery
- ^ Bard Graduate Center: Diana Scarisbrick
- ^ 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