Philadelphia Museum of Art

Catalogue of an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture, portraits, clothing, and objets d'art commissioned and owned by the Cadwalader family of Philadelphia.

Styles and aesthetics of early PA illustrate the rapid advances that took place in the colony during the late 17th and early 18th cent., not only in the arts but also in commerce, technology, scientific inquiry, and philosophy.