Eleuthera Fiechter Collection
American furniture and paintings from the collection of the late E. Newbold and Margaret Peggy du Pont Smith
Collection includes a stellar array of early American furniture, early English delftware, metalwork, textiles and related vernacular works of art.
Features a selection of Americana that Mrs. Kend acquired for her estate in Millbrook. Celebration of form and function, highlighted by vivid Folk portraiture and dramatic, sculptural weathervanes.
Vol I includes detailed object analysis and full-color illustrations of Americanóand specifically Delawareófurniture, silver, textiles, and ceramics. Vol II focuses on the museum's visual arts holdings an highlights regional artists and historical works.
Shows what has been done by some of Americaís most discriminating collectors to bring beauty and also a sense of stability and continuity into their homes.
A comprehensive, chronologically organized study of jewelry as it was worn by both men and women from Colonial days to the turn of the century in America.
Features the best of the museum's collection according to its own curators. Offers a rare opportunity to understand how the curators at Winterthur view the objects in their care.
One of the first systematic inventories of vernacular American architecture and defined Raymond's long and successful career.
The early clockmakers of Chester County, Pennsylvania gave the traditional designs of the era a unique and beautiful regional interpretation. This classic work explores the clocks and their makers, preserving their heritage for the ages.
Detailed evaluation of Anglo-American furniture design and construction.
Presents a full survey of Tidewater Virginia homes constructed between 1640 and 1830.
One of the greatest collections of American Furniture, early American Silver and Sporting Paintings ever to come to action†
The sale includes Chippendale carved furniture, Delft ceramics, dueling pistols, needlepoint samplers and artwork.
The Copeland collection has legendary status among the American furniture collectors.The Copelands stocked their Georgian mansion with enough brown wood to impress even the most exacting scholars.
Contains 14 essays, most on individual artists. 76 portraits are illustrated.
Translation of Kaukasische Teppiche
More than seven hundred museum-quality examples acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation during the past sixty years.
Demonstrates the varied techniques of making sewn rugs as well as a social history of their makers.
Collection of American samplers from the collections of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Massachusetts.
This 163 year old book, originally bound in brown embossed paper over a hard cardboard is an excellent resource for information on mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia. It contains black and white reproductions of famous painting of historical events in the founding of the city. It has an extensive section of appendices on miscellaneous topics that could be of interest to reader of the city's history or a local historian.
Divided into seven parts: The Identity of Robert Feke; Problems in Identification; New York Painters and Patrons; Painters and Craftsmen; Notes on Colonial Portraits; The Discoveries of Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr.; New York Portraits.
William K. du Pont assembled a collection that is entirely unique in character and importance, comprising some of the best examples of Americana.
one of the most distinguished assemblages of early American antiques, built over a century by the renowned Joe Kindig Jr. and his descendants
legendary archive of early American decorative arts, English porcelain, and fine Americana
A comprehensive index of names and locations, and, maps of Chesapeake Bay and St. Maryís City add to the value of this work.
llustrated with the author's own superb pen-and-ink illustrations and spectacular close-up photographs of moths found in the eastern U.S Catalog of an exhibition held at Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Me., June 17-Oct. 14, 2001, and Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Del., Nov. 7, 2001-Feb. 25, 2002
Crisfield, Maryland, a small city on the southernmost part of Maryland's Eastern Shore formerly was known as Somers Cove and called the seafood capital of the world. Using original primary and secondary sources, this book offers history, folklore, and photographs of areas, businesses and people of interest to Crisfield as well as Smith Island, Tangier Island, and Marion Station areas.
Detailed book on the Eastern Shore of Maryland region. Includes everything a visitor, or even a local, would want to know.
Part IV of the Architectural Treasures of Early America series.From Material Originally Published as the White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs.
Relates three centuries of life and building including 640 site descriptions, notable residents and the architectural heritage of towns.
Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 6 to April 28, 1963.
Integrates and discusses Edward Hicks' secular and religious concerns as they affected his artistic production, particularly the creation of his "Peaceable Kingdom" paintings.†
An Exhibition at Fairfax House, York, 1st September to 20th November 1997
Stories of outstanding Colonial and Early American mansions and dwellings and simple row houses; its churches and other exceptional historic buildings.
The catalogue highlights 48 items, including American paintings, decorative arts, and historical memorabilia, with a specific focus on Philadelphia-themed art and history
True stories about events occurring on or near Delaware Bay over a span of years including Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Boating and fishing, Bower's Beach, DE and the people who worked on the Bay.
Fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted.
Issues: 2001, 2005 Vol. X, 2006 Vol. XI, 2007 Vol. XII ,2008 Vol. XIII
Provides an illuminating view of the resource that made possible so much of the early settlement of North America.
Survey includes homes, barns, out buildings, and commercial properties built here from the county's 17th century beginnings through the 19th century.
Brief analysis of 40 Delaware Valley quilts and their makers.
Draws on a recently discovered archive of Layton family papers, travel journals, and vintage photographs and on five years of extensive archival research in the United States and Great Britain.
the M. and M. Karolik collection of paintings, drawings, engravings, furniture, silver, needlework & incidental objects gathered to illustrate the achievements of American artists and craftsmen of the period from 1720
Analyzes early American family life chamber by chamber, studying paintings, personal writings, even poetry.
Explores the social and economic milieu of the American colonies and their European antecedents that produced these chairs and other furniture.
Traces the history of the Delaware mansion now used as a museum and describes its invaluable collection.
Mines the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collection of clothing, acquired over the last seven decades, initially to accessorize the buildings but eventually to display them as objects of interest in their own right.†
Pays homage to American clock makers and convincingly demonstrates how a fine clock gives the owner status and sophistication.
117 items in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum; includes samplers, canvas work, crewel embroidery, silk work, quilts, tambour work, knitting, white work, and less common needlework forms.
Exceedingly-scarce history of Quakers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, a hotbed of the religion since the 17th century.†
A panoramic survey of Maryland building from the founding of the Colony through 230-odd years, until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Definitive work of the 18th century Philadelphia American craftsmen who produced some of the great masterpieces of American furniture.
Featuring crewel embroidery from the United States and its history. Sections on Colonial New England, The Golden Age, The Deerfield Revival.
Examples described are samplers, which include some unusual darning and drawn-work samplers as well as the more familiar cross-stitch type; crewel embroidery, silk embroidered pictures, Florentine stitch embroidery, and the canvas and Berlin work of the
Organized by geographic area (MA, RI, CT, NY, NH, ME, PA, NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA and the South).
From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a centur
The Medieval traditions of building in Britain were carried over to Maryland settlements in the 17th Century and are still visible today. A compilation of history, genealogy and architecture.
First intensive examination in over a hundred years of the tall case and bracket clocks made in Delaware from 1741 to 1815, the Golden Age of American clock manufacture.
The many practical industries - architecture, stone work, metalsmiths, needlework, ceramics, and pictures - that supported this earliest county in Pennsylvania are documented.
American Furniture Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles
Lists 2500 American cabinetmakers from colonial times through the Industrial Revolution era with biographies, dates, and locations.†
Traces the development of practical and decorative iron and steel products in America from its beginnings in the early 17th century into the 19th century when machinery supplanted manual work
In-depth study of the American silver collection at Winterthur sets some significant new standards for silver collection catalogs.
Brings some of the tricks of identifying woods and show you how the wood can tell you where and when a piece of furniture was made.
Chastellux, a major general accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America. His journal provides a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people.
Catalogue of the collection which was bequeathed to the New York Historical Society in 1949
Sweeping narrative about the men and women who shaped the Brandywine's history and culture.
Fifteen essays, spanning the period from the mid-17th to the early 20th century, explore the history of the American house and home.
Definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. and cultural contributions to the city.
A Quaker idealist who attempted by private diplomacy to avert the Revolutionary War. He was an intimate friend of all the well known names of that time.
Diary of Hamilton's journey through the northern colonies provides an interesting account of the life and times during the colonial period.
This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard's curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores.
Survey of Johnson's London, spanning the years 1740 to 1770, reveals what it was that proved so compelling about the monstrous metropolis.
Includes some of the rarest and most important objects in these wares. Presents background material. Includes a discussion of the forms, materials, and technology. Includes a timeline incorporating relevant royal and other important personages who lived during the waresí period of production (ca. 1628ñ1770).
Overview of textiles in America. Imported textiles played a central role in the lives of American colonists. Illustrates samples from collections around the world, as well as drawings and engravings of the time.
Provides a quick and easy reference source for the collector; documents the largest and most comprehensive collection of American pewter ever assembled.
Tribute to Philadelphia's many well-preserved examples of colonial ironwork features 182 crisp black-and-white photographs and 41 measured drawings.
How John Cadwalader's great Philadelphia mansion was decorated and furnished in colonial times.
Traces the growth of his family's antique business, offers a profile of his father, the business's founder, and describes the people and museums who collect antique furniture
Two hundred pieces of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century American furniture.
The most complete account of the Hennages' collecting journey
Documents and studies colonial-era cast-iron stoves of Pennsylvania German origin. Originally published in 1914
Published to coincide with the exhibition, Silver : An American Art, Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, held August 30, 2014- February 15, 2015.
Endpapers are a diagram of a 17th century garden with an 18th century garden superimposed : Wye House. The book has nearly 600 photographs and drawings.
History of the mid-Atlantic's earliest gardens and the people who created them.
Traces the story of European ceramics from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting key developments, techniques, discoveries and styles.
Five centuries of the architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography created by the diverse peoples who have given direction to the arts of America.
Explores virtually every aspect of upholstery at different periods and in different places for some of three hundred years. Subjects range from types of fabrics and trimmings used, to the many different styles of hanging draperies, to the shapes of seats
Guide for comparing and evaluating early American antiques.
The former director of Vienna's Museum of Arts and Crafts covers rugs and their patterns, colors, symbols and history.
Account of American fireplaces from the primitive hearths of Jamestown to the sophisticated models of today.
An indispensable guide for collectors and dealers who want to compare and evaluate early American antiques.
Manual of the period of English History containing Chippendale furniture. Illustrations are from the original books of design from national and private collections.
Casts welcome light into numerous dark corners, clears up many old problems, and banishes more than one hallowed belief about this important room in the colonial home.
On the 50th anniversary of the opening of Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 296 objects - furniture, textiles, paintings, watercolors, ceramics, glass, needlework, and metalwork, all made or used in America between 1640 and 1860, are included.
Samuel Rowland Fisher's catalogue of English hardware
The exhibition explored how the dressing table (often called a lowboy) and the tall chest of drawers (highboy) developed as matching or complementary furniture sets in colonial America. Tracing a century of craftsmanship from the late 17th century to the end of the 18th century, the exhibit documented regional style variations, intricate woodcarvings, and the rising emphasis on personal grooming and refined domestic interiors
Shows paintings, earthenware, glassware, metalwork, textiles, and calligraphy produced by the Pennsylvania Dutch
More than 250 archival photographs and plans and an invaluable biography section profiling the schooling and projects of the landscape designers whose work is featured.
Documents a collection of 18th-century, colonial-era homes built with decorative brickwork in Salem County, New Jersey.
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.
Italian-born Bertoia (d.1978) studied at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan and went on to set up a studio for sculpture and furniture in Pennsylvania.†
Pennsylvania wainscot chairs (primarily originating from Chester County and Philadelphia) are rare, early 18th-century joined armchairs. They uniquely blend English, Welsh, and Germanic woodworking styles. They are highly prized in antique collections for their broad proportions, scalloped crest rails, and arched back panels
Documentation of the evolution of meetinghouse design in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting region from 1695 to the present.
A detailed look at Philadelphia's development from its founding to the late 20th century, exploring its role as a colonial, revolutionary, and federal city, and its cultural and industrial growth.†
A landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. It commemorated the legendary 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition by showcasing 180 years of early American craftsmanship, tracing stylistic evolution and regional discoveries across the country.
This series of pen-and-ink illustrations of historic buildings accompanied by text originally appeared in the Wilmington Journal-Every Evening.
Describes the development of fashionable English furniture between the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
†Major study of plantation houses constructed in Maryland 1634-1800. Includes 320 photographs and 145 illustrations of plans, sketches and details.
Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews
An eighteenth-century record of an American city;, photographs provide a fascinating record of Philadelphia's renewed growth and vitality between 1960 and 1982.
Introduction: rethinking the underground railroad -- Slavery and freedom in New York -- Origins of the underground railroad: The New York Vigilance Committee -- A patchwork system: the underground railroad in the 1840s -- The Fugitive Slave Law and the crisis of the Black community -- The metropolitan corridor: the underground railroad in the 1850s ó The record of fugitives: an account of runaway slaves in the 1850s -- The end of the underground railroad
A "conductor" based in Philadelphia, Still (1821-1902) helped guide fugitive slaves to safety in the years before the Civil War. He created this collection of preserved letters, newspaper articles, and firsthand accounts about refugees' hardships, narrow
Examines the career of restoration architect G. Edwin Brumbaugh to map the evolution of his ideologies, methodology, and professional practice, and to determine the degree to which he affected the professionalization of restoration architecture.
Ceramics in America is an interdisciplinary annual journal that examines the role of historical ceramics in the American context. Features a variety of ground-breaking scholarly articles, new discoveries in the field, and book and exhibition reviews
Numerous fully illustrated and annotated examples of significant Delaware buildings.†
Collection housed in Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Issued also under title: The treasure house of early American rooms
The story of a town whose heritage is its people. From humble beginnings a metropolis thrived to become a center of manufacturing, and social activity. The color and sweep of history is reflected on every paqe.†
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.
Published initially on the occasion of the national convention of the American Institute of Architects in the spring of 1961 and is the first general survey of Philadelphia architecture to appear.
details techniques to preserve historic architectural integrity while incorporating modern living conveniences.
Examines the everyday lives of the Founding Fathers through an eye-opening tour of forty stately eighteenth-century houses.
The only comprehensive readers' tour of the nation's richest array of historic residences open to the public, the book is complete with maps, touring information, and historical notes on fifty distinctive homes.
Tables and looking glasses in the Garvan and related collections; contains detailed entries on 140 tables, 22 related objects, and 47 looking glasses ranging in date from the 1670s to 1990.
European origins and the American manifestations of the rococo, a brief discussion of firearms, and architecture, and medium-based explorations of objects made of paper, silver, wood, iron, glass, and ceramic.†
Discusses the work of such American cartographers as Abel Buell and John Melish and the impact of the rise of lithography, which made possible the low-cost map.
Comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn.
Companion the exhibition held at the Library Company of Philadelphia on three hundred years of dining in Philadelphia.
A visual guide to the buildings that surround us, naming all the visible architectural features; an original and accessible take on the architectural dictionary.
How the Reverend W.A.R Goodwin and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. went about restoring Virginia's colonial capital.And how the Williamsburg of today was turned from a sleepy southern town into a city alive with the voices of history.
Interior design styles of the Federal and Greek Revival periods in colonial America featuring detailed descriptions and photographs of the architecture.
General historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps.
Reconstructs the history of carpets from a fresh perspective and sheds light on the evolution of oriental carpets designs, materials and techniques developed in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.†
Southern Furniture Dutch Trade Seventeenth Century Chesapeake Furniture Eighteenth-Century Furniture Cabinetmaking
Rococo Style New York Furniture Scandinavian Modern Furniture Chairmaking Roman Gusto
Presents new research on furniture design, use, production, and appreciation. Provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field.
American maps, from the first tentative chartings of a new land to contemporary satellite photographs, tracking the development of the nation as it has been explored, its boundaries established, and its resources charted.
Devoted to Staffordshire salt-glazed ware a delicate and highly collectable class of pottery that in its lightness and fine potting, closely rivaled porcelain in the eighteenth century.
16 essays first presented at the 1987 Winterthur Conference to present findings about Philadelphia's myriad economic groups, political enclaves, religious structures, cultural institutions, and artisanal output during the period 1750 to 1800.
Articles from the May 1924-May 1975 issues of Antiques Magazine including bibliographical references and index
An exhibition presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 5 to April 14, 1968.
Comprehensive guide to the life and times of the man widely considered to be one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern architecture.
Defining material culture in its broadest sense by placing artifacts in the context of social relationships, the essays produce a rich and multifaceted portrait of early American life.
History of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Revealing glimpse of the English upper classes--their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes.
Explores the character of pre-1940 domestic and agricultural buildings in the towns and rural landscapes of southern New Jersey, Delaware, and coastal Maryland and Virginia.
Large sections are devoted to andirons, candlesticks, fireplace accessories, kettles and tobacco boxes. Explains the composition of brass, eighteenth century method of sand casting, and ways to identify old copies and fakes.
Records the development of the candlestick from the 13th to the 19th century.
Explores the importance of these Copper and its alloys - brass, bronze, and paktong for early Americans, using the extensive collections at Winterthur.
Meticulous research on tin-glazed earthenware - commonly called Delft. Introductory Essays Collecting Delftware at Historic Deerfield The History and Manufacture of Delftware Delftware in the Connecticut River Valley Alcoholic Drinking Vessels Tea Drinking Wares and Salvers Dining Wares Decorative Plates and Dishes Flower Containers Apothecary Jars,
Storage Vessels, and Toilet Wares Lighting Devices Tiles Fakes
Photographic survey of early wrought iron work in America with 506 photographs from the Sorber Collection.
Appeals to anyone with an interest in American colonial history, Pennsylvania genealogy, regional architecture, Pennsylvania German culture, religious patterns of early Pennsylvania.
documents how colonial silversmiths developed a distinctive tradition of their own, producing work that was both practical and artistically refined.
Some two hundred objects from eighteenth and nineteenth century United States with the author/artist's own illustrative sketches. Includes an epilogue on the alphabet in early America.
"Line and berry inlay was a form of surface decoration used on furniture forms throughout the eighteenth century in Pennsylvania. It consisted of patterns of intersecting arcs of inlay laid out with a compass, often terminating in circular patches of inlay, or berries, and related types of inlay, such as herringbone bordering.
A landmark 1929 antiques showcase held at the American Art Galleries in New York for the Benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts. It is widely considered by scholars to be the starting point for modern American decorative arts scholarship.
The 1931 sales catalog "Selections from the Collection of Francis P. Garvan: Furniture and Silver by American Master Craftsmen of Colonial and Early Federal Times" documents a significant auction held by the American Art Association / Anderson Galleries in New York on January 8ñ10. It features premier 17thñ19th century American decorative arts, including pieces now recognized as masterpieces now in the Yale University Art Gallery.
Vol. 1: 642 lots are described. Vol. 2: 729 lots are described. Vol. 3: 739 lots are described. Several lots in each part are illustrated.
Defines the scope and variety of colonial furniture within the four principal styles of Pilgrim, William, and Mary, Queen Anne, and Chippendale.
Barns in Southeastern Pennsylvania, or, specifically, "the hearth," the area east of the Susquehanna River and south of the Blue Mountains. One of the earliest-settled areas in North America
Beloved building traditions in one of the most charming and historically significant regions in the nation. Houses, barns, and outbuildings dating from the colonial and Federal periods.
Fact-filled, copiously illustrated, revealing survey of Yankee life and households in an earlier time
