Photography, British -- 19th century;Angels;Lilies;Portraits -- Female -- Britain -- 19th century
Notes: A year after receiving her first camera as a gift, Julia Margaret Cameron stated her ambitions as a photographer in a letter to her friend Sir John Herschel, My aspirations are to ennoble photography, she declared, and to secure for it...
Art museums; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art museum visitors; Aesthetics; Duccio, di Buoninsegna, d. 1319; Gautama Buddha -- Statues -- Afghanistan -- Bamiyan Region; Sculpture, Buddhist -- Afghanistan -- Bamiyan Region; Taliban; Master Engelram;...
Summary: The director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks at the Clark. The title of his talk is, "Museums: Why Should We Care?"
Contents: Introduction by Michael Conforti (ca. 11 mins.) -- Philippe de Montebello presentation (ca. 49...
Rivers -- Canada; Chaudiere River Valley (Quebec); Michipicoten Island (Ont.)
"...7 Artotype illustrations of Canadian scenery. The artotypes were printed by G.E. Desbarats and Co., Montreal. G.E. Desbarats, the partner of Leggo in the 70's, was one of the purchasers of the artotype patent in 1878. As with most of the other...
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Portraits; George, Saint, d. 303; Diogenes, d. ca. 323 B.C; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 -- Portraits; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge; Raphael (Archangel);...
Includes "28 Heliotype illustrations from a number of methods, each designed to highlight various applications of the process...This book was prepared in conjunction with Osgood's display at the Centennial in Philadelphia. All of the plates are...
Morris, William, 1834-1896; Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Edition limited to 220 copies, 210 of which are for sale. CAI has no. 187. Bibliographical appendix: pp. i-xxx. "The drawings of Kelmscott Manor were made from photographs taken by
Mr. Frederick H. Evans, by whose kind permission they are here...
Embroidery; Tapestry; Textile fabrics; Lace and lace making; Wallpaper; Decoration and ornament
"This limited edition has been printed from type and the type distributed." "The material presented in the present volume constituted, for the most part, a series of articles which appeared in Good furniture magazine during the years 1915, 1916,...
Translation of: La peinture sur toile imitant les tapisseries; Last 26 p. contain a list of colours and materials for tapestry painting, oil painting, etc. for sale by Lechertier, Barbe, & Co ; Original maroon cloth. Most chromolithographed plates...
