The Paper Garden
The Paper Garden

Author: Molly Peacock

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-04-12

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1608195236

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Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.

Young America
Young America

Author: Claire Perry

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780300106206

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A delightful look at how nineteenth-century American artists portrayed children and childhood

Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge
Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge

Author: Sue Ann Prince

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780871699343

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The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art and science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural assumptions that governed the practice of natural history on the North American continent in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Focusing on the study of living things -- plants, animals, and indigenous peoples -- it looks at how and why Euro-Americans of the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods went about explaining the world the way they did. Exhibit items include historical specimens, manuscript materials, first-edition books, and art work.