The Old Plantation
The Old Plantation

Author: Susan P. Shames

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg

Published: 2010-10-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0879352434

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A centerpiece of Colonial Williamsburg's folk art collection since the 1930's, The Old Plantation has long intrigued art enthusiasts, historians, and the general public. This eighteenth-century watercolor, which has been widely reproduced in textbooks and scholarly publications, has been a valuable tool for those studying slave life, music, dance, and society, as well as those interested in the genesis of folk art in America. Though extensively analyzed and interpreted, The Old Plantation has remained a mystery. Until Now... This fascinating publication unlocks one of the great mysteries of American decorative arts, revealing not only the career of the painter, but the lives of the unnamed slaves in the images as well.

John Henry Newman Sermons 1824-1843
John Henry Newman Sermons 1824-1843

Author: Saint John Henry Newman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0199200912

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A scholarly edition of thirty-nine sermons by John Henry Newman. Part I includes 12 sermons preached on the subject of the Church between 1824-1837 including the first sermon Newman ever preached on high church principles. Part II contains a miscellany of twenty-seven sermons preached between 1828 and 1840.