"This is a rare example of a printed book containing the suites of illustrations created by the Martinet enterprise at the end of the 1760s. A team of artists created six illustrations for a projected series of luxury editions of opéras-comiques,...
Weaving -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County -- 19th century; Coverlets -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County -- 19th century; Weaving -- Instruction; Weaving -- Equipment and supplies; Handlooms; Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814 -- Songs and music;...
John Long's Coverled Book is a handwritten manuscript containing diagrams and instructions for the weaving of geometric patterns into coverleds, or coverlets. The instructions are for double weaving on a loom, which is also called a summer and...
Design; Lace and lace making -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Embroidery -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Sources and documents -- Italy -- 16th century;
Published in 1567, "La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorti di ricami…" is a pattern book that provided designs for the elaborate lacework and embroidery of the period. These pattern books were designed to be portable and easily handled,...
Silver--Exhibitions; Silver--Collections (Public)--Williamstown; Silver, English--Exhibitions; Exhibition catalogues (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) 2
Lamerie, Paul de, 1688-1751--Exhibitions; Silver--Collections (Public)--Williamstown; Exhibition catalogues (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute) 3
Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
This is a notebook kept by Robert Sterling Clark during his 1908-1909 exhibition to northern China. It contains observations related to surveying and meteorology, as well as some anecdotes about the trip.
This is a Mandarin translation, commissioned by the Clark, of Through Shen-kan. the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the...
"25 heliotype plates showing the ship, Sigsbee's sounding machines and various deck photographs of how to place it in operation. Plates are marked by The Heliotype Printing Co., 220 Devonshire St., Boston."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 72
Sophocles. Oedipus Tyrannus; Guild, Curtis, 1860-1915 -- Portraits; Riddle, George -- Portraits; Opdycke, L. E. -- Portraits; Norman, Henry, 1858-1939 -- Portraits; Lane, G. M. -- Portraits; Manning, W. H. -- Portraits; Wendell, E. J. -- Portraits;...
"15 Heliotype plates of photographs of the cast and the play in rehearsal. 'The groups were photographed on the stage of the Sanders theater with electric light;...are believed to constitute the most extensive piece of photography of this kind...
Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903 -- Portraits; Detchon, Adelaide -- Portraits; Photomechanical processes
"2 Phototype illustrations, by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, a portrait of Wilson and a composite of portraits of Adelaide Detchon. The same portrait of Wilson was used for the Ives process half-tone in 1881. The text acknowledges that Gutekunst uses...
Hood, Caleb C. -- Portraits; Garret, Thomas -- Portraits; Lewis, James -- Portraits; Dannaker, James -- Portraits; Underground railroad -- Pennsylvania; African Americans -- Pennsylvania; Portrait photography -- United States; Chester County (Pa.)...
"...4 are half-tones from photographs...Below each half-tone is: 'Ives' Process, Pat'd Feb. 8, 1881, Crosscup & West, Phila.,' [which predates Pagoda Shadows (1884), long thought to be] the first book published with Ives half-tones..."--Hanson...
