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Early Pennsylvania arts and crafts With a foreword by S. K. Stevens

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Author:
Stoudt, John Joseph 1911-  Search this
Physical description:
364 pages : illustrations facsimiles, color plates, portraits ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanie
Date:
1964
Contents:
Architecture -- Primitive Tidewater architecture -- The Greene Country town -- Primitive Piedmont architecture -- Elegant Tidewater mansions -- Plain farmhouses and plain meetinghouses -- Ephrata and Moravian architecture -- Coming of the Georgian -- Some public buildings -- A fort in the land of peace -- The Pennsylvania barn -- Furniture -- Pennsylvania furniture before Queen Anne -- Early plain chairs -- The style of the "Good Queen Anne" -- Philadelphia Georgian furniture -- Philadelphia Chippendale furniture -- triumph of the elegant -- Character of Germanic furniture -- The dower chest -- The Schank -- Germanic plank chairs -- Later Germanic furniture -- The pendulum clock -- Fine arts -- Gustavus Hesselius and the early masters -- Johann Valentin Haidt -- Benjamin West -- The Peale family -- Painting in the Federal Period -- The fine art of the tavern sign -- Reverse painting on glass -- The fine art of the silversmith -- Early nineteenth century painting -- Music and musical instruments -- Crafts -- The cast iron bible -- The baron's glass -- The frontiersman's friend -- The potters' craft -- Carving -- Painted objects -- Iron -- Textiles -- Metal work -- Miscellaneious pieces -- Th illuminating art -- The art of Ephrata -- The Golden ABC for everyone -- The Vorschrift -- The symbolic mood -- Sermon in pictures -- Certificates of birth and baptism -- The New Years greeting -- The bookplate -- The house blessing -- Labyrinths and games -- Miscellaneous forms of fraktur writing
Topic:
Art  Search this
Decorative arts  Search this
Arts décoratifs  Search this
Call number:
NK835.P4 S72
NK835.P4S72
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_16448