A “Foundation in Nature”: New Economic Criticism and the Problem of Money in 1690s England

Smith, Courtney Weiss

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“…11 More specifically, his inspiration was very likely drawn from the products of travel and trade which the enterprise of the East India Company would massively import at that time. 12 Experimenting in a particularly dashing way, Halfpenny would design and make some early Chinoiserie buildings and objects, trying thus to discover the combinations between decoration, form and functionality. In contrast to the purely structural, rather pretentious work of the silverwork designer and cabinet maker John Linnell (1729-1796), who had realized the high significance of Chinoiserie, but remained attached exclusively to the stylized construction of objects such as beds, chairs, settees, but also domestic interiors, Halfpenny soon realized the value of manuals and pattern books.…”

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Designers, makers, influencers: the contribution of William Halfpenny and Thomas Chippendale to the development English Chinoiserie furniture design

Tsoumas,

Kertemelidou

2024

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The term Chinoiserie, i.e. the tendency to incorporate elements of Chinese culture into European art and architecture, redefined the concept of style in seventeenth-century France and influenced the aesthetic formation of European arts and design in the century that followed. The term became particularly popular in England, as it was also associated with the need for renewal after the excessive ornamentation, elaborate symbolism and intense theatricality of Baroque, as well as the aesthetic and ideological perfection of Classicism. As early as the first half of the eighteenth century, the architect and designer William Halfpenny (1723-1755) showed a keen interest and skill in the transition from classical design to the mysterious Chinese motifs, contributing thus to the stylistic formation of English Chinoiserie, especially in the field of architecture and by extension furniture design. His experimentally pioneering approach through his publications was the beginning of a new aesthetic and ideological era that had a catalytic effect on the shaping of the design concept, taste and construction techniques of the equally important English furniture designer, Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779). This research aims to highlight the establishment of Chinese culture and aesthetics, known as Chinoiserie, in the eighteenth-century England, as regards the formation of furniture design, through the pattern books and design experimentation of William Halfpenny, as well as the inspired publications and the manufacturing mastery of Thomas Chippendale.

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Designers, makers, influencers: the contribution of William Halfpenny and Thomas Chippendale to the development English Chinoiserie furniture design

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Kertemelidou

2024

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CREDIT AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUST IN THE THOUGHT OF JOHN LOCKE, c. 1668–1704

Cooper

2020

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This article presents a reinterpretation of John Locke's contribution to debates about the interest rate in the seventeenth century. It suggests that his argument that England should maintain the ‘natural’ rate, rather than impose a lower rate, was motivated by his theological, moral, and social conceptions of credit and its dependence on trust. In order to solve the endemic shortage of metal coin limiting the growth of monetary exchange in England, Locke stressed that the higher, ‘natural’ rate of interest would facilitate interpersonal borrowing and lending among neighbours, allowing currency to flow more freely around the country. By contrast, while he acknowledged that institutional creditors such as goldsmith-bankers could quicken the circulation of money by issuing debt instruments like bills of exchange, he saw institutional credit as a threat to the moral community. Not only did he question how people could rationally trust financiers without any epistemic apprehension of their personal probity, but he moreover doubted whether individuals accumulating so much money were likely to act trustworthily. Finally, using an otherwise unstudied dialogue about the Bank of England, this article argues Locke extended his criticisms about the threats posted by private banks to the country's nascent system of public credit.

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A “Foundation in Nature”: New Economic Criticism and the Problem of Money in 1690s England

Cited by 5 publications

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Designers, makers, influencers: the contribution of William Halfpenny and Thomas Chippendale to the development English Chinoiserie furniture design

Designers, makers, influencers: the contribution of William Halfpenny and Thomas Chippendale to the development English Chinoiserie furniture design

CREDIT AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUST IN THE THOUGHT OF JOHN LOCKE, c. 1668–1704

Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2014

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