The Magazine Antiques articles from December 2007

The Magazine Antiques archives from December 2007

Greetings from Delaware.(Current and coming)('Greetings from Delaware and Other Artist Communities' and 'Seeing the City: Sloan's New York')
December 1, 2007... The Boston-based lithographer Louis Prang introduced printed Christmas cards, an English innovation of 1843, in the United States in 1875, holding competitions among artists for cash prizes to come up with the best designs. During the early...

Treasures from Versailles.(Current and coming)(Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles)
December 1, 2007... In a far corner of the park at the Chateau de Versailles in France is the Petit Trianon, an elegant neoclassical pavilion conceived by Louis XV and built between 1762 and 1768 for Madame de Pompadour whose death in 1764 precluded her from...

Creating an icon of American art.(Current and coming)(George Caleb Bingham: The Making of "The County Election")
December 1, 2007... An intriguing exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum examines the making of an icon of American painting, George Caleb Bingham's The County Election of 1851-1852, shown on page 20, and a number of related prints including the widely...

Museum accessions.
December 1, 2007... Not surprisingly, a good many of the major collectors of English art in this country, especially of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolors and drawings, have had close ties to England. Among the earliest was Samuel Bancroft, an avid...

Galle and others.(Report from Europe)(Emile Galle and the Origins of Art Nouveau)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... An exhibition entitled Emile Galle and the Origins of Art Nouveau is on view at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, in northern England, until January 20, 2008. About two hundred works are on display by such makers as Lalique, Minton, Tiffany,...

Joseph Wright of Derby.(Report from Europe)(Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool)
December 1, 2007... The English painter Joseph Wright, who was born in Derby in 1734, studied portrait painting in London under Thomas Hudson and lived much of his life in his native city. From 1768 to 1771 he worked in Liverpool, attracted by the growing market...

French drawings.(Report from Europe)(Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection)(Brief article)
December 1, 2007... Two major British collections of the French arts were formed in the nineteenth century. One was that of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, who built Wad-desdon Manor near Aylesbury in the French style to house his treasures. The other was assembled by...

Pottery in the service of medicine.(Books about antiques)('English Delftware Drug Jars: The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain')(Book review)
December 1, 2007... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries people suffering from ailments of all sorts sought relief with various elixirs prepared and sold by royal, monastic, or commercial apothecaries. While medicine was an extremely rudimentary affair,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
December 1, 2007... The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures Arizona PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "A Century of Retablos: The Janis and Dennis Lyon Collection of New Mexican Santos, 1780-1880"; to January 27, 2008.*...

Antiques.(Salem, Massachusetts)
December 1, 2007... [T]he Countrie of the Massachusets, which is the Paradise of all those parts: for, heere [New England] are many Iles all planted with come; groves, mulberries, salvage gardens, and good harbors... and so well inhabited with a goodly,...

Rings on their fingers: ring wearing from ancient times to the Renaissance.(Cover story)
December 1, 2007... Rings have played a vital role in our stories and rituals for thousands of years. Their lasting popularity accounts for their prominent and frequent appearance in written, artistic, and archaeological records. There are famous rings in Greek...

An English way with tea: Silver containers of the eighteenth century, continued.
December 1, 2007... The tea containers illustrated and discussed in my article in the June 2007 issue of this magazine are part of a dense and colorful exhibit at Colonial Williamsburg's DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. (1) But they...

A McIntire restoration: the east parlor in the Peirce-Nichols House, Salem, Massachusetts.(Samuel McIntire)
December 1, 2007... The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, has recently completed a restoration of the east parlor (Figs. 1, 3, and 5) in its Peirce-Nichols House to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Samuel McIntire's birth. Commissioned by Jerathmiel...

The Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones mosaics in Saint Paul's Within the Walls in Rome.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2007... In 1881 the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Coley Burne-Jones (see Fig. 1f) was commissioned to design mosaic decorations for the new American church in Rome. The Church of Saint Paul's Within the Walls was the first Protestant church to...

The making of the almost perfect flute.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2007... From ancient times people have listened to the sound of flutes with special fascination and delight. Classical mythologists ascribed the instrument's invention to the gods: Osiris in Egypt, Pan or Athene in Greece, and Krishna in India. (1)...

Calendar of shows.(antique shows)(Calendar)
December 1, 2007... November 28-December 3. New York, NY. ANTIQUES & ART AT THE ARMORY. Location: Park Avenue Armory, New York. Running for over 20 years and now in its 3rd year in its new format. Benefit Preview: November 28th for the Boys' Club of New York. 70...

Conservation and restoration of upholstery.(Design notes)(Elizabeth Lahikainen and Associates)
December 1, 2007... In this issue Dean T. Lahikainen describes the fabrics and trims that his wife, Elizabeth Lahikainen, selected to upholster the stools, sofas, and the seats of the mahogany armchairs during the restoration of the east parlor in the...