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Portrait of a Man
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Holiday 2002
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This painting serves as an important document for 19th-century lighting in America, specifically the Solar lamp, which is seen here on...
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Rail Travel
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Holiday 2002
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In 1938, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company decided to enhance their premium trains in anticipation of improving economic times...
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Rosewood Overmantel
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Holiday 2002
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This is the only known element to have survived the 1942 demolition of Rockwood Hall...
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Cast-Iron Fireback
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Summer 2002
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This is a rare, early survival of a cast-iron fireback. It is dated 1697 and the design is superimposed with the initials of the then monarchs of England...
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Chest by Aaron Miltimore
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Summer 2002
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This is the only known chest associated with the previously undocumented cabinetmaker Aaron Fitz Miltimore. Miltimore was born in Londonderry...
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Coade Naiad
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Summer 2002
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This Coade-stone naiad (water nymph) was designed in the early 1770s by the celebrated sculptor, John Bacon (1740–1799), after a famous antique marble...
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Important Calimanco Quilt
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Summer 2002
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Calimancos are glazed-wool quilts. The glazed surface is a result of starch, egg white, and/or heat and pressure application. The worsted cloth that comprises...
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Jervis McEntee, Eastern Sky at Sunset
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Summer 2002
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Jervis McEntee was a painter of great intelligence, sensitivity, and complexity. His adaptability enabled him to endure when many of his Hudson River...
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Tall Case Clock
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Summer 2002
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Relatively little is known of John Munro (1758–1810). According to period documentation, he was originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, and arrived in...
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A Unique Pair of Dutch Landscape Paintings
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Spring 2002
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Although one might argue that these paintings are less subtle than those of the great seventeenth-century landscape artists, one has to...
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