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The Magazine Antiques archives from February 2001
Living with antiques: THE GILMOUR-CHRISTOVICH HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS.
February 1, 2001... In 1853, when Anna (Fig. 4) and Thomas C. Gilmour built their stylish house on Prytania Street in New Orleans (Pl. I), "prosperity flushed the city," according to the Louisiana historian Grace King. [1] She wrote that
The very stones of...
Needlework education in antebellum Alexandria, Virginia.
February 1, 2001... Alexandria is situated on the river Potomac, one of the largest, handsomest, and most commercial cities in Virginia. The situation is pleasant and elevated, the city is built on the plan of Philadelphia, the streets are as wide if not wider...
Ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture of Vizagapatnam, India, 1700-1825.
February 1, 2001... The ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture made in Vizagapatam (also called Vishakhapatnam), India (Pl. II), in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries presents an interesting case of the swiftness with which furniture designs were...
POSSESSIONS AND PROPS: THE COLLECTION OF JOHN SINGER SARGENT.
February 1, 2001... Soon after the death of the painter John Singer Sargent in 1925, his two younger sisters sold a tremendous variety of items from his estate at the London auction firm of Christie, Manson and Woods. The renowned and successful artist had been a...
Nineteenth-century Louisiana.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... It takes a giant leap of faith to believe that the same young Frenchman who created dozens of enchanting and minutely rendered watercolors of Louisiana buildings initally came to the United States to hunt buffalo, but so the family tradition...
Dutch and English delftware.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The seventeenth century in Europe has been described as the great age of maritime trade with faraway places. During the first quarter of the century--labeled the Golden Age in Holland--the Dutch began trading with the Chinese. Among the most...
An early American philanthropist.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Inscribed on the tomb of Elihu Yale (1649-1721) in Wrexbam churchyard in England is the following epitaph: "Born in America, in Europe bred./In Africa travell'd, and in Asia wed./Where long he liv'd and thriv'd; in London dedd' Such was the...
For st'udents and collectors.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The Garden Conservancy, with headquarters in Cold Spring, New York, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1989 in order to provide funding to preserve many of this country's finest gardens. The conservancy works in partnership with garden...
A virtual carpet in Charleston.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Ralph Blakely, a carpet collector in Charleston has sent us an intriguing speculation regarding the presence of Oriental rugs in that city in the eighteenth centruy. He bases his very plausible argument on a comparison of the portraits...
Aspects of childhood.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Two exhibitions, one in London and the other in Antwerp, explore notions of childhood. At the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London the exhibition entitled Murillo: Scenes of Childhood is devoted to the paintings of Barolome Esteban Murillo. Best...
Seventeenth-century Rome.(center for European painting)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... In the first quarter of the seventeenth century Rome was reborn as a major center of European painting. That epoch is celebrated in an exhibition entitled The Genius of Rome: 1592-1623 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London until April 16. The...
Queen Victoria and Germany.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, were first cousins, sharing grandparents in the duke and duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Seven times in her lifetime the queen traveled to Coburg, Germany, which she once described as her second...
Goya drawings.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes suffered a serious illness in 1792, and although he recovered two years later, he was completely deaf. He continued his prodigious artistic output, but the episode understandably marked a change in his...
The fair in Maastricht.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... The European Fine Art Fair, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, every March makes this charming city a beacon for art lovers and collectors from around the world. This year the fair, which will be held from March 10 to 18, comprises 197 art...
Hispanic Society of America.
February 1, 2001... Collis Potter Huntington created the Central Pacific Railroad and the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company becoming one of the richest men in the United States. With the same single-mindedness his only son, Archer Milton Huntington...
ANTIQUES.(East India Company)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2001... There [in India] laws exist not, and he who rules, must rule the people by his will. If his will be evil, the people will be far more miserable than it is possible for any people to be...but if his will be good as well as strong, happy are the...