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Author: Barry A. Greenlaw
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780879350192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis catalog illustrates and describes 164 pieces of New England furniture in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, including examples of nearly every type of household furniture made and used during the colonial period.
Author: Elizabeth A. Davison
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2011-01-16
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0759119562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes_such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805_that he worked into his furniture. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo-American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the last 25 years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume.
Author: Heritage Plantation of Sandwich
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 190
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Gruber Safford
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1588392333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the 17th and early 18th centuries--from chairs and other seating to tables, boxes, various types of chests and cupboards, and desks. Each of the 141 objects is thoroughly described with detailed information on provenance, construction, condition, inscriptions, dimensions, and materials. Photographed anew in color for this volume, each piece is explicated in terms of the styles and craftsmanship of the period and is evaluated in light of comparative pieces in public and private collections throughout the country. One appendix contains photographic details of construction and decorative elements, and another has drawings of joints and moldings.
Author: Brock Jobe
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780912724683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresented for the first time, the richly illustrated findings of the Southeastern Massachusetts Furniture project at Winterthur Museum
Author: Ivan Gaskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 679
ISBN-13: 0197500137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary evidence. Each kind of material thing-and there are many-requires the application of interpretive skills appropriate to it. These skills overlap with those acquired by scholars in disciplines that may abut history but are often relatively unfamiliar to historians, including anthropology, archaeology, and art history. Creative historians can adapt and apply the same skills they honed while studying more traditional text-based documents even as they borrow methods from these fields. They can think through familiar historical problems in new ways. They can also deploy material culture to discover the pasts of constituencies who have left few or no traces in written records. The authors of this volume contribute case studies arranged thematically in six sections that respectively address the relationship of history and material culture to cognition, technology, the symbolic, social distinction, and memory. They range across time and space, from Paleolithic to Punk.
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its sixth year, Early Homes is a biannual special edition that focuses on the period 1690—1850 and it's revivals, including Colonial and Neoclassical design. Each issue contains lavish photos and plenty of product sources.
Author: Kenneth L. Ames
Publisher: Winterthur Museum
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography of the study of household furnishings used in the United States from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century contains twenty-one sections. Each section begins with an essay that outlines the development of scholarship in the files and points toward new directions for research with annotated entries on the most significant works. Three chapters present the basic reference tools and surveys of art and architecture. These are followed by chapters devoted to such topics as furniture; metals, including silver and gold, pewter, and Britannia metal; ceramics and glass; textiles; timepieces; household activities and systems; and craftsmen and the Arts and Crafts Movement in America. Includes an author/title index.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas R. J. Newbern
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1563119471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFurniture scholars Thomas R. J. Newbern and James R. Melchor have joined forces with Turner Publishing Company to produce this fascinating look at Classical Norfolk Furniture between the years of 1810 and 1840. Featuring over 420 full-color photos, this book is a groundbreaking study of a major southern furniture group not previously studied in depth. Classical Norfolk Furniture: 1810-1840 is the culmination of over 20 years of research from its authors, who examined hundreds of pieces of furniture, made field notes, studied research files, and gathered information from across the country to make this one-of-a-kind publication possible.
