These photographs were taken on Robert Sterling Clark's 1908-09 expedition to the Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces of China. The originals reside in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Alphabets; Initials ; Illumination of books and manuscripts
Illustrated title page in colors; Ornamental borders; Bibliographical foot-notes; "The art of illuminating: what it was,--what it should be,--and how it may be practiced. By M. Digby Wyatt, architect." pages 1-96; "Exhibited: Gothic Revival and...
Angell, Joseph, d. ca. 1851-1853;Silverwork -- England -- London -- 19th century;Saltcellars -- England -- London -- 19th century;Silver saltcellars -- England -- London -- 19th century;Spoons -- England -- London -- 19th century;Tableware --...
City: London
Marks: Each salt fully marked on underside of bowl: maker's mark JA (Grimwade 1769) lion passant leopard's head date letter c for 1818/19 sovereign's head. One spoon marked on stem with maker's mark, date letter, lion...
Customs administration--China--History--20th century; China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu; Shanghai (China); Hangzhou (China); Tai Lake (China); Exterritoriality; Scientific expeditions -- China; Agriculture--China; Missionaries--China; Clark,...
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark, which Sowerby begins writing December 30, 1928 while on a houseboat near Pinghu Xian south of Shanghai, and finishes at home in Shanghai on January 7, 1929. In this long letter,...
Clans; Tartans; Highlands (Scotland); Clans -- Scotland -- History
Publication information based on title page of Volume 1. Volumes 1-4 continuously paged; Volumes 5-8 continuously paged. CAI copy has added engraved t.p. in v. 1: The Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments. CAI copy has t.p. and...
At head of title: Botanical fine art weekly. Index to plates of flowers in Wild Flowers of America is contained in Volume 1., No. 18. This volume (Volume 1, No. 6) contains plates 81-96.
Silver--Exhibitions; Silver--Collections (Public)--Williamstown; Silver, English--Exhibitions; Exhibition catalogues (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) 2
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company;Salts (Condiment vessels) -- New England -- 19th century;Tableware -- New England -- 19th century;Decorative arts -- New England -- 19th century;Glassware -- New England -- 19th century;Blown glass -- New England...
New England, probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co
Medium notes: Clear lead glass, blown in full size hinged mold, with pattern of diamonds, ribs, and starbursts, tooled foot
Photography, French -- 19th century;Paris (France);Jardin des Tuileries (Paris, France);Sculpure;Théodon, Jean-Baptiste, 1646-1713. Arria et Paetus;Lepautre, Pierre, ca. 1660-1744. Arria et Paetus
Remarks: This picture was part of a commission Nègre received in 1859 to photograph the sculptures in the Tuileries Garden. Nègre made the photographs in June, 1859. The photographs were to be made into heliogravures and published in a monograph...
Photography, American -- 19th century;Landscapes;Rivers;Nile River;Egypt
Remarks: The son of a prominent Boston banker, John Beasley Greene trained as an archaeologist and lived primarily in Paris, where he was a member of the Société Français de Photographie. He made his first trip to Egypt in 1853 at the age of 21....
Photography, French -- 19th century;Bourgeois de Mercey, Frédéric, 1803-1860 -- Portraits;Château de la Faloise (La Faloise, France);Landscapes;Châteaux;Portraits, Group;Country houses
Notes: Édouard Baldus was the most important French architectural photographer of the 1850s. On one summer day in 1857, he created a remarkable series of views of the Château de la Faloise in which his subject was not primarily the country house,...
Remarks: This rare vintage print is typical of Nadar's best work of the 1850s, his portraits of the luminaries of the Parisian artistic and literary circles. Nadar, along with LeGray, Baldus, and Nègre, was one of the best-known French...
