1970s - Jan and John Maggs Antiques
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A Cumulative Table of Contents for THE MAGAZINE ANTIQUES 1970 - 1979 January 1970 COVER: Mantel clock, by Kinable, 1795 FRONTISPIECE: Silver tankard, by Jeremiah Dummer. c. 1682 Of time and taste: European clocks in the Bliss collection J. STEWART JOHNSON An ANTIQUES book preview: Early American official silver MARTHA GANDY FALES An ANTIQUES book preview: American silversmiths in Canada JOHN LANGDON The Wrightsman rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art JAMES PARKER In the service of soup: a great collection EDITH GAINES The Empire style at Bayou Bend: new period rooms in Houston DAVID B. WARREN Discovery of a world: early maps showing America, Part II DALLAS PRATT Fans of the Napoleonic era ESTHER OLDHAM February 1970 COVER: Washington, by Rembrandt Peale. lithograph, 1827 FRONTISPIECE: Silver communion service, London, 1742/3 Lithographs by Rembrandt Peale JOHN A. MAHEY Church silver in colonial Virginia HELEN SCOTT TOWNSEND REED The rise and fall of English white salt-glazed stoneware, Part I IVOR NOEL-HUME Joseph Wright’s portrait of Frederick Muhlenberg MONROE H. FABIAN Chairs by Lannuier at New York’s City Hall MARY MARTIN CRAIGMYLE Firle Place, Sussex; The seat of the Viscount Gage CLIFFORD MUSGRAVE Eighteenth-century English and American furnishing fashions FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY March 1970 COVER: Marquetry decoration design MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Rococo revival gas chandelier, C. 1850 Nydia, popular Victorian image MILLARD F. ROGERS, JR. History in houses: The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion MARGARET DONALD SCHAACK The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s centennial exhibition The furniture of nineteenth-century America The paintings of nineteenth-century America An ANTIQUES book preview. Art at Auction, 1968-1969 Furniture owned by the American Antiquarian Society WENDELL D. GARRETT The rise and fall of English white salt-glazed stoneware. Part II IVOR NOEL-HUME Henry Walton. American artist LEIGH REHNER April 1970. Special Charleston issue COVER: View of the Simmons-Edwards House Photograph by Louis Schwartz FRONTISPIECE: The spire of St. Michael’s Church The history of Charleston, 1670-1860 GEORGE C. ROGERS, JR. The town plan of Charleston RUSSELL WRIGHT Architectural trends in Charleston ALBERT SIMONS Seven great Charleston houses W.H. JOHNSON THOMAS Plantations and parish churches of the Carolina low country Drayton Hall, plantation house of the Drayton family FREDERICK D. NICHOLS Living with antiques in Charleston: FRANCES R. EDMUNDS The George Eveleigh House, home of Mr. and Mrs. Huger Sinkler The Josiah Smith House, home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Bennett The public buildings of Charleston BEATRICE ST. JULIEN RAVENEL The adaptive use of Charleston buildings in historic preservation FRANCES R. EDMUNDS May 1970 COVER: Staffordshire figure of a horse, c. 1765-1775 MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Looking glass, English, c. 1760 English decorative arts at the De Young Museum D. GRAEME KEITH The English Chinese style in furniture JOHN GLOAG The death of Captain Cook: two views JAMES E. AYRES Kaahumanu’s silver spoons DOROTHY T. RAINWATER Living with antiques: A small chateau near Brussels ELIZABETH DE GRUNNE FLORY Hand-woven coverlets in the Art Institute of Chicago MILDRED DAVISON Wedgwood: what’s in a mark? GEOFFREY A. GODDEN Ephraim Byram, versatile nineteenth-century craftsman JAMES MONROE PERKINS Charleston ornamental ironwork ALSTON DEAS June 1970 COVER: Infant Blowing a Conch shell, lead sculpture, c. 1670-1680 FRONTISPIECE: Inlaid mahogany bookcase, Charleston, c. 1790 Philipsburg Manor, Upper Mills at North Tarrytown, New York JOSEPH T. BUTLER Louisbourg—the forgotten fortress JOHN LUNN Research and discovery at Louisbourg JOHN FORTIER Ceramics from an eighteenth-century wilderness fort J. JEFFERSON MILLER II A Louis XIII cabinet at Toledo RUTH DAVIDSON Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum CHARLES F. HUMMEL Silver tureens in the Campbell Museum collection KATHRYN C. BUHLER Charleston furniture E. MILBY BURTON Charleston silver E. MILBY BURTON July 1970 COVER: Garden motifs FRONTISPIECE: Porcelain cruet stand, Florence, c. 1580 Early American garden houses RALPH E. GRISWOLD Continental pewter epergnes, cruet stands, and sugar bowls ROBERT M. VETTER An ANTIQUES book review: Tudor Place WENDELL D. GARRETT Little-known ceramic treasures from the Bennington potteries RICHARD CARTER BARRET History in houses: Craighead-Jackson House in Knoxville, Tennessee G. R. DEMPSTER Portraits of Rebecca Gratz by Thomas Sully HANNAH R. LONDON Indiana cabinetmakers and allied craftsmen, 1815-1860 ARTHUR WHALLON August 1970 COVER: Floral composition on chintz FRONTISPIECE: Flower stand and other glass items The Dunlap cabinetmakers CHARLES S. PARSONS and DAVID S. BROOKE Victorian flower stands HUGH WAKEFIELD Senator Morril1’s Gothic cottage at Strafford, Vermont LAWRENCE WODEHOUSE An ANTIQUES book review: “Origins of Chintz” RUTH DAVIDSON Fishing subjects by Junius Brutus Stearns MILLARD F. ROGERS JR. Early American stock locks DONALD STREETER An ANTIQUES survey: Scrimshaw EVAN WILLIAM PETLEY-JONES The walrus and the commodore—a puzzle in scrimshaw RICHARD W. UPDIKE Grand Pa Wiener, painter of many worlds JOANNE BOCK September 1970 COVER: Compass design MILTON GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Silver footed tray by William Grigg of New York and Albany Nineteenth-century Scottish painting WILLIAM BUCHANAN Nineteenth-century American rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art MARVIN D. SCHWARTZ English earthenware figures in the Lake collection of the Everson Museum American silver at the Art Institute of Chicago DAVID A. HANKS Surveyors‘ equipment and the western frontier WILLIAM H. GUTHMAN An ANTIQUES book preview: Early American Furniture JOHN T. KIRK An ANTIQUES book review: Nineteenth Century American Painting JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER Susanna Rowson and her academy JANE C. GIFFEN History in houses: The Golden Plough Tavern and the General Gates House in York, Pennsylvania CHARLES B. SIMMONS October 1970 COVER: Shaker buildings at Canterbury, New Hampshire FRONTISPIECE: Spiral stairway, Trustees’ House, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky The Shaker utopia CHARLES W. UPTON Functionalism in Shaker crafts EUGENE MERRICK DODD The Shaker meetinghouses of Moses Johnson MARIUS B. PELADEAU Micajah Burnett and the buildings at Pleasant Hill JAMES C. THOMAS Unusual forms in Shaker furniture E. RAY PEARSON AND HINMAN L. P. KEALY Regional characteristics of Western Shaker furniture JULIA NEAL The Shakers today BARBARA S. DELANEY The Shaker communities; Public collections of Shaker crafts The pewterers of eighteenth-century New York LEDLIE I. LAUGHLIN November 1970 COVER: John Quincy Adams, by Charles Willson Peale FRONTISPIECE: Mrs. John Murray, by John Singleton Copley, 1763 An ANTIQUES book preview: Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife ANDREW OLIVER New light on Joseph H. Davis, "Left Hand Painter” NINA FLETCHER LITTLE American paintings in the Reynolda House collection BARBARA B. LASSITER Masterpieces of early American furniture at the United States Department of State ROBERT C. SMITH A Holy Family attributed to Benjamin West ANN C. VAN DEVANTER Early depictions of the landing of the Pilgrims CARL L. CROSSMAN and CHARLES R. STRICKLAND American art at the Gibbes Art Gallery in Charleston FRANCIS W. BILODEAU Expatriate portraits: Charlestonians in museums outside of Charleston HELEN G. MCCORMACK Paintings in the Council Chamber of Charleston's City Hall ANNA WELLS RUTLEDGE Mortuary art in Charleston churches CONSTANCE VECCHIONE HERSHEY December 1970 COVER: Christmas tree, inspired by Shaker drawings MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a Philadelphia Chippendale armchair, 1765-1780 Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Part II CHARLES F. HUMMEL The early New England textile village in art RICHARD M. CANDEE Glass lighting devices JANE S. SHADEL Living with antiques in Old Lyme, Connecticut WILLIAM T. DONOHO Japanese porcelains in American and Canadian collections RICHARD S. CLEVELAND A new catalogue of the Mabel Brady Garvan collection of silver at Yale GRAHAM HOOD January 1971 COVER: Detail from a pair of Japanese screens (1573-1614) FRONTISPIECE: Mahogany pedestal-end sideboard, by Duncan Phyfe, c. 1825 Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Part III CHARLES F. HUMMEL Living with antiques: Stewart Gregory’s Connecticut barn JEAN LIPMAN Cottages and castles: The collection of Mrs. Lawrence K. Miller. Early printed views of the West Indies NEVILLE CONNELL Japanese screens RUTH DAVIDSON Bishop Hill: A colony of Swedish pietists in Illinois RONALD E. NELSON February 1971 COVER: Liberty, painting on glass, by Abijah Canfield ( l769-1830) FRONTISPIECE: Candelabrum by Matthew Boulton, English, c. 1770 An ANTIQUES survey: The rocking chair in America EDITH GAINES The rocking chair in Victorian England JOHN GLOAG Stick-spatter ware EARL F. ROBACKER Horatio Greenough in the classic mold THOMAS B. BRUMBAUGH An ANTIQUES book preview: Robert Salmon: Painter of Ship and Shore JOHN WILMERDING Some pre-Revolutionary prints and broadsides WENDY J. SHADWELL Silver from Iolani Palace, Honolulu DOROTHY T. RAINWATER and RHODA E. A. HACKLER March 1971 COVER: Southern silver-forms design MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: An Indian Encampment on Lake Huron, by Paul Kane (1810-1871) Southern silver DAVID B. WARREN Early silversmiths and the silver trade in Georgia KATHARINE GROSS FARNHAM and CALLIE HUGER EFIRD Living with antiques: Castlefinn Farm, the Pennsylvania home of Mrs. James Rawle II LITA H. SOLIS-COHEN An ANTIQUES book preview: Paul Kane’s Frontier. Sketches among the Indians of North America, 1845-1848 J. RUSSELL HARPER Living with antiques: A chateau near Liege, in Belgium ELISABETH DE GRUNNE FLORY Charles Willson Pea1e’s portrait of Robert and Gouverneur Morris CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS Mobile Silversmiths and jewelers 1820-1867 SIDNEY ADAIR SMITH Nineteenth-century silver in Natchez H. PARROTT BACOT and BETHANY B. LAMBDIN April 1971. Special issue: The Furniture History Society COVER: Cherub, carving by Grinling Gibbons (1648-1720) FRONTISPIECE: English rococo looking glass. The Furniture History Society CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY Furniture by Giles Grendey for the Spanish trade CHRISTOPHER G. GILBERT English furniture in colonial America MILO M. NAEVE Room arrangements in the mid-eighteenth century P. K. THORNTON Some documented pieces of English furniture LINDSAY BOYNTON Irish mahogany furniture: a source for American design? DESMOND FITZ-GERALD The final graces of the Georgian age: Regency furniture JOHN GLOAG Holland & Sons and the furniture of Osborne House EDWARD T. JOY May 1971 COVER: Seated Indian, wood carving, c. 1858 FRONTISPIECE: Hannah Loring, by John Singleton Copley, 1763 Louis Vaupel, master glass engraver CARL U. FAUSTER An ANTIQUES book review: The Wrightsman Collection RUTH DAVIDSON Table guards and cake plates of pewter ROBERT M. VETTER Robert Sanderson in England MRS. G. E. P. HOW A Peruvian problem in historic preservation: The Lima home of Dr. and Mrs. Pedro G. Beltran WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL The palace of Pavlovsk, near Leningrad MARY CHAMOT Colonial life in the West Indies as depicted in prints NEVILLE CONNELL June 1971 COVER: South front of Uppark, Sussex FRONTISPIECE: Irish cut-glass kettledrum bowl, c. 1820-1830. Uppark, Sussex CLIFFORD MUSGRAVE Irish glass: some attributions PHELPS WARREN Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, Aurifices Regis, Part I JOHN F. HAYWARD British folk art at Freshford Manor JAMES E. AYRES Stoneware made by the White family in Utica, New York BARBARA FRANCO Thomas Couture, painter and teacher of painters MARCHAL E. LANDGREN The origins of Newport block-front furniture design R. PETER MOOZ Speculations on the Rhode Island block-front in 1928 WENDELL D. GARRETT Living with antiques in New York State EDITH GAINES Cincinnati cabinet- and chairmakers, 1819-1830 DONNA STREIFTHAU July 1971 COVER: Wood engravings by Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) FRONTISPIECE: American lacy and pressed glass, 1830-1850 Art and the Adirondacks WILLIAM K. VERNER English yellow-glazed earthenware from the Eleanor and Jack L. Leon Collection, Part I J. JEFFERSON MILLER II Independence National Historical Park JOHN CALVIN MILLEY American lacy and pressed glass in the Toledo Museum of Art JOHN W. KEEFE Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, Aurifices Regis, Part II JOHN F. HAYWARD Living with antiques: The Chicago apartment of Marshall Field DAVID A. HANKS The embossed pictures of Samuel Dixon and his imitators ADA LONGFIELD LEASK The Windsor chair in Nova Scotia GEORGE MAC LAREN August 1971 COVER: Cast-iron pots and kettles FRONTISPIECE: Silver coffeepot by Joseph and Nathaniel Richardson, 1790-1791 Sallie Morris’ silver LOUISE C. BELDEN Cast-iron cooking vessels JOHN D. TYLER Nineteenth-century public buildings in Nashville ANATOLE SENKEVITCH JR. Lacy Hairpin in French and American glass LOWELL INNES English yellow-glazed earthenware from the Eleanor and Jack L. Leon Collection, Part II J. JEFFERSON MILLER II History in houses: The Hampton-Preston house in Columbia, South Carolina WILLIAM SEALE Grueby art pottery ROBERT W. BLASBERG The Sadie Irvine letters: a further note on the production of Newcomb pottery ROBERT W. BLASBERG Gardner & Company of New York KENNETH AMES The chain-border tray: three versions EDITH GAINES September 1971. Special Tennessee issue COVER: Tennessee state capitol, Nashville FRONTISPIECE: Andrew Jackson, c. 1833, by Ralph E. W. Earl Tennessee, a historical introduction WILLIAM T. ALDERSON Tennessee silversmiths BENJAMIN H. CALDWELL JR. Tennessee textiles RICHARD H. HULAN Portraits by Ralph E. W. Earl JEROME R. MACBETH Historic sites in Tennessee ROBERT M. MCBRIDE Domestic architecture in Middle Tennessee ALBERT W. HUTCHISON JR. Victorian mansions in Memphis TERRY B. MORTON The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson STANLEY F. HORN Music in Tennessee RICHARD H. HULAN History in towns: Jonesboro, Tennessee’s oldest town MAY DEAN EBERLING Tennessee furniture and its makers ELLEN BEASLEY Three Tennessee painters: Samuel M. Shaver, Washington B. Cooper, and James Cameron BUDD H. BISHOP Living with antiques: The Nashville home of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell Jr. ORRIN WICKERSHAM JUNE October 1971 COVER: Doorway of the Ashley House, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts FRONTISPIECE: Embroidery to the memory of Shakespeare by Lydia Eames, c. 1805 Memorial embroideries by American schoolgirls BETTY RING An ANTIQUES book preview: American silver: The seventeenth century GRAHAM HOOD An ANTIQUES book preview: Notable American houses: Going by the book in designs and practices MARSHALL B. DAVIDSON The print collection at Winterthur, Part I NANCY E. RICHARDS Virginia planter-painter Henry James Brown LUCILLE MCWANE WATSON A collection of Swansea and Nantgarw porcelain AUBREY NIEL MORGAN Living with antiques: Harperth House, the Nashville home of Mr. and Mrs. Roupen M. Gulbenk Living with antiques: Fairvue, the Tennessee home of Mr. and Mrs. William Wemyss THOMAS K. CONNOR Tennessee cabinetmakers and chairmakers through 1840 ELLEN BEASLEY November 1971 COVER: Providence Cove, by Alvan Fisher (1792-1863) FRONTISPIECE: Comte de Richebourg-le Toureil, by Nicolas de Largillière (1656-1746) The print collection at Winterthur, Part II NANCY E. RICHARDS The Sharples family of painters ARNOLD WILSON The bric-a-brac still life WILLIAM H. GERDTS The painting collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society FRANK H. GOODYEAR JR. Paintings in the Winterthur collection JOHN A. H. SWEENEY The portraits and paintings at Mount Vernon from 1754 to 1799, Part I WILLIAM BARROW FLOYD John Barnard Whittaker, Brooklyn artist CLARK S. MARLOR John Jay Libhart, nineteenth-century American eclectic HENRY MILLER LIBHART J. Evans, Painter NORBERT AND GAIL SAVAGE December 1971 COVER: Christmas design MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Easy Chair, Newport, 1758 Form and frame: new thoughts on the American easy chair MORRISON H. HECKSCHER The portraits and paintings at Mount Vernon from 1754 to 1799, Part II WILLIAM BARROW FLOYD Finial busts on eighteenth-century Philadelphia furniture ROBERT C. SMITH Tennessee silversmiths prior to 1860: a check list BENJAMIN H. CALDWELL JR. History in towns: Columbus, Mississippi PATTY T. MURFEE January 1972 Fiftieth Anniversary Issue COVER: Late eighth-century book cover Pierpont Morgan Library FRONTISPIECE: The Worgelt Study in the Brooklyn Museum Excellence in Continental glass RUDOLF G. VON STRASSER Design sources of early China Trade porcelain CLARE LE CORBEILLER The work of an anonymous Carolina cabinetmaker FRANK L. HORTON London silver in Pittsburg: The Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection DAVID T. OWSLEY Living with antiques: The home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Montgomery WENDELL D. GARRETT Bits of brass MARSHALL B. DAVIDSON European guild pewter: forms and functions ROBERT M. VETTER What to do before the restorationist comes HENRY A. JUDD A “new” painting by Alfred Jacob Miller WILBUR HARVEY HUNTER Cornè, Mclntire, and the Hersey Derby farm NINA FLETCHER LITTLE The new antiques: art deco and modernism J. STEWART JOHNSON February 1972 COVER: Gilt-bronze finial of a tall clock by Jean Pierre Latz, 1744 FRONTISPIECE: Silver covered urn, by Paul Storr (London, 1798/99) The what, who, and when of English creamware plate design IVOR NOEL-HUME Some silver and Sheffield argyles from the collection of Mrs. Edmund Hayes Living with antiques: A Connecticut house in northern New England History in houses: The Thomas Ruggles House in Columbia Falls, Maine SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN Biblical scenes in embroidery LYNN E. SPRINGER The furniture of Jean Pierre Latz and the German rococo HENRY H. HAWLEY March 1972 COVER: Miniature Chinese furniture design MILTON H. GLOVER FRONTISPIECE: Silver porringer by Henry Hurst (c. 1665-1717) Furnishing textiles at the John Brown House, Providence, Rhode Island FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY The Copp family silhouettes ANNE WOOD MURRAY An ANTIQUES book preview: American Painted Furniture 1660-I880 DEAN A. FALES JR. An ANTIQUES book review: Chinese furniture LAURENCE SICKMAN Caddy’s aquatints of the West Indies NEVILLE CONNELL Chandeliers in Federal New England JANE C. GIFFEN Decorative cast iron on the Virginia frontier JOHN BIVINS JR. April 1972 COVER: St. John, by Giuseppe Gricci, c. 1744 FRONTISPIECE: Cut-glass compote, attributed to Christian Dorflinger, c. 1855-1860 Samuel Hayden Sexton, Schenectady painter ONA CURRAN History in towns: Smithfield, Virginia PARKE ROUSE JR. Bristol hard-paste porcelain JOHN K. D. COOPER Living with antiques: The home of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Weymouth at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania ALICE WINCHESTER Sea-shell cases for use and for show JUDITH COOLIDGE HUGHES Dorflinger glass, Part I KATHRYN HAIT DORFLINGER MANCHEE Some Virginia chairs: a preliminary study WALLACE B. GUSLER and HAROLD B. GILL JR. May 1972 COVER: Meissen porcelain swans. c. 1750 FRONTISPIECE: Cliveden, the Chew house in Germantown. Pennsylvania William Tygart, a Western Reserve cabinetmaker JAIRUS B. BARNES The Ailsa Mellon Bruce collection of Continental porcelain DAVID T. OWSLEY Paintings at the New Haven Colony Historical Society KATHERINE SUSMAN HOWE Three flagons attributed to John Will CHARLES V. SWAIN European prints in eighteenth-century America JOAN DOLMETSCH History in houses: Dyrham Park, the seat of William Blathwayt HELEN LOWENTHAL Living with antiques: The Lake Bluff home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Steadman DAVID A. HANKS Pieces of history: Relic furniture of the nineteenth century RODRIS ROTH June 1972 COVER: Needlework sampler, 1766 FRONTISPIECE: Gouache attributed to Michele Felice Cornè, early 1800’s Living with antiques: Mawley Hall, Shropshire; The home of Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Galliers-Pratt CLIFFORD MUSGRAVE Dorflinger glass, Part II KATHRYN HAIT DORFLINGER MANCHEE Collecting American samplers today BETTY RING Ceramic barber’s bowls in the Fairchild collection JOAN SEVERA Charles Louis Heyde, painter of Vermont scenery ALICE COOKE BROWN Some American britannia ware in the Winterthur collection NANCY GOYNE EVANS Hastings Warren: Vermont cabinetmaker PETER M. DEVEIKIS History in houses: The Hunt-Morgan House in Lexington, Kentucky JULIET BREWER Nineteenth-century Gothic furniture in England JOHN GLOAG New light on Boston stoneware and Frederick Carpenter LURA WOODSIDE WATKINS July 1972 COVER: Monticello, photograph by Joseph C. Farber FRONTISPIECE: The South Piazza, Monticello The clockmaking Willards’ homestead in Grafton, Massachusetts RICHARD SAUNDERS Silas Hoadley, Connecticut clockmaker MARIUS B. PELADEAU Dorflinger glass, Part III KATHRYN HAIT DORFLINGER MANCHEE David Claypool Johnston, the American Cruikshank MALC0LM JOHNSON President Calvin Coolidge, b. July 4, 1872. A centennial at Plymouth Notch, Vermont CHARLES LOCKWOOD The furniture and furnishings of Monticello JAMES A. BEAR JR. Music: Thomas Jefferson’s “Delightful Recreation” HELEN CRIPE August 1972 COVER: The Hunter, detail from a tapestry FRONTISPIECE: Lithograph of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1871 The wealth of Boucher tapestries in American museums MADELEINE JARRY Edwin Whitefield, 1816-1892 BETTINA A. NORTON Early furniture of western Pennsylvania ROBERT w. MCDERMOTT Philena Moxley’s embroidery stamps IRENE DODGE John Jellitff, cabinetmaker J. STEWART JOHNSON Michele Felice Cornè, 1752-1845 NINA FLETCHER LITTLE September 1972 COVER: The Gordon-Banks house in the Georgia piedmont FRONTISPIECE: American chairs in the Queen Anne and Chippendale styles Martin Euclid Thompson, architect of the United States Branch Bank, 1822 LAWRENCE WODEHOUSE Early dated scrimshaw CHARLES H. CARPENTER JR. An ANTIQUES book preview: Winslow Homer: Impressive and solemn landscapes JOHN WILMERDING An ANTIQUES book preview: American Chairs: Queen Anne and Chippendale JOHN T. KIRK Daniel Pratt, architect and builder in Georgia ROBERT L. RALEY Living with antiques: The Gordon-Banks house in the Georgia piedmont KATHARINE GROSS FARNHAM George Cooke, painter of the American scene WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS The Kahila dig at Mount Washington PAUL HOLLISTER Pittsburgh’s Old Post Office DONALD MILLER New York City’s brownstone fronts CHARLES LOCKWOOD Gallier House—the home of a nineteenth-century New Orleans architect WILLIAM R. CULLISON October 1972 COVER: Avon, Connecticut. Photograph by Samuel Chamberlain FRONTISPIECE: Concord, Massachusetts A tribute to Samuel Chamberlain WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL Harrisville, New Hampshire: A nineteenth century industrial town WILLIAM PIERSON Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner: The stylistic development of their domestic silver DONALD L. FENNIMORE Five related coverlets MILDRED DAVISON Living with antiques: An American furniture collection in Pennsylvania SARAH B. SHERRILL Joseph Harrison Jr., a forgotten art collector NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Lithographs as historical documents PETER C. MARZIO and MILTON KAPLAN John Quidor and the literary sources for his paintings DAVID M. SOKOL Franklin‘s House off High Street in Philadelphia: The search for a missing watercolor by J. T. ROBERT D. CROMPTON J. Leonard’s Inkstand in the House of Representatives JOAN SAYERS BROWN November 1972 COVER: Thomas and Sarah Mifflin, by John Singleton Copley (detail) FRONTISPIECE: Thanksgiving Proclamation The Williams family, a nineteenth-century dynasty of painters CHRISTOPHER WOOD Early American paintings at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880) ALICE DOAN HODGSON Joseph Goodhue Chandler (1813-1884): Itinerant painter of the Connecticut River Valley JOHN W. KEEFE Paul Lacroix WILLIAM H. GERDTS Albert Gallatin Holt (1809-1856) PATRICIA L. HEARD America’s neoclassic sculptors: fallen angels resurrected CORNELIUS VERMEULE III American painting at Harvard LOUISE TODD AMBLER AND KENYON C. BOLTON III American paintings in the Newark Museum: Part I: The eighteenth century SUSAN G. SOLOMON Bierstadt and Church at the New York Sanitary Fair GORDON HENDRICKS Charles Franklin Pierce, painter of rural New England JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF December 1972 COVER: Detail from a secrétaire à abattant signed by Nicolas Petit FRONTISPIECE: Nineteenth-century French wallpaper Bed Rugs: An Exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum WILLIAM L. WARREN Wallpapers used in nineteenth-century America CATHERINE LYNN FRANGIAMORE Living with antiques: The home of Professor and Mrs. Henry Guerlac JAY E. CANTOR Stanford White’s New York City interiors CHANNING BLAKE Historic towns: Restorations in the Dutch settlement of Kinderhook RODERIC H. BLACKBURN Rembrandt Peale’s The Roman Daughter WILBUR H. HUNTER The Ailsa Mellon Bruce collection of French furniture DAVID T. OWSLEY Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia: The First American Porcelain Factory, 1770-1772 GRAHAM HOOD January 1973 COVER: Stairway of the Wickham-Valentine House FRONTISPIECE: The garden facade of the Wickham-Valentine House A Soumain bowl in the Mercer Museum ELIZABETH H. SIAS A Philadelphia desk-and-bookcase from Chippendale’s Director ROBERT C. SMITH Stovemakers of Troy, New York JOHN G. AND DIANA S. WAITE History of the Valentine Museum MOLLY HOLT The fine arts collection at the Valentine Museum ROBERT BOWERS MAYO The Wellford Bedroom of the Wickham-Valentine House BETTY C. COONS Decorative arts in the Valentine Museum HELEN SCOTT TOWNSEND REED Textiles in the Valentine Museum MILDRED J. DAVIS The glass in the Valentine Museum KENNETH WILSON Exterior restoration of the Wickham-Valentine House JEAN D. KANE Japanese influence in early Rookwood pottery KENNETH TRAPP February 1973 COVER: The Skater, by Gilbert Stuart; Andrew Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Wood for Winter, by George H. Durrie, 1860 Libbey’s gift to the Smithsonian in 1905 CARL U. FAUSTER George Henry Durrie, an American winter landscape painter MARTHA HUTSON Documented Fraktur in the Winterthur collection, Part I NANCY GOYNE EVANS Documented Newport furniture: a John Goddard desk and John Townsend document cabinet in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone STANLEY STONE The rocking chair in nineteenth-century America KENNETH AMES The purchase of furniture and furnishings by John Brown, Providence merchant, Part I: 1760-1788 WENDY A. COOPER Shirley Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia CATHERINE LYNN FRANGIAMORE The art of skating DICK BUTTON March 1973 COVER: Vignette by Henry lnman, 1833 FRONTISPIECE: Eleutherian Mills, Greenville, Delaware American paintings in the Newark Museum. Part II: The nineteenth century SUSAN SOLOMON Dr. Prince's air pump MARTHA G. FALES College architecture in New England before 1860 in printed and sketched views BRYANT FRANKLIN TOLLES JR. Paintings at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum ELISABETH DONAGHY History in houses. Beauport in Gloucester, Massachusetts CAROL BOHDAN The Beardsley limner CHRISTINE SKEELES SCHLOSS Documented Fraktur in the Winterthur collection. Part II NANCY GOYNE EVANS History in houses. Eleutherian Mills in Greenville, Delaware MAUREEN O'BRIEN QUIMBY Living with antiques. The Lake Bluff home of William McCormick Blair DAVID A. HANKS April 1973 COVER: Detail of The Artist’s Family, by Benjamin West FRONTISPIECE: English porcelain from the Ailsa Mellon Bruce collection Lewis Page, a nineteenth-century New York toy dealer JOHN DEMER Folk sculpture of rural Quebec. The Nettie Sharpe collection J. RUSSELL HARPER The purchase of furniture and furnishings by John Brown, Providence merchant, Part II: 1788-1803 WENDY A. COOPER The religious paintings of Robert Walter Weir KENT AHRENS The Ailsa Mellon Bruce collection of English porcelain DAVID T. OWSLEY A labeled card table by Michel Bouvier DONALD L. FENNIMORE Benjamin West and his self-portraits ANN C. VAN DEVANTER John Henry Hopkins and the Gothic revival LAWRENCE WODEHOUSE Portraits of notable nineteenth-century Americans in daguerreotype LEO STASHIN Mourning fans ANNE SUE HIRSHORN May 1973 American furniture issue COVER: Dolphin supports from pier table by Anthony G. Quervelle FRONTISPIECE: Detail of cupboard with drawers. Guilford, 1650-1680 Decorated furniture of the Mahantango Valley FREDERICK S. WEISER and MARY HAMMOND SULLIVAN James Gheen, piedmont North Carolina cabinetmaker CAROLYN WEEKLEY Robert Wilson, Kentucky cabinetmaker MARY CLAY MCCLINTON New Haven Colony furniture: the seventeenth-century style PATRICIA E. KANE A piedmont North Carolina cabinetmaker: the development of regional style JOHN BIVINS JR. The New York serpentine card table MORRISON H. HECKSCHER The furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle. Part I: The pier tables ROBERT C. SMITH Richard Allison, cabinetmaker, and the New York City Federal style MARGO C. FLANNERY Two Boston cabinetmakers of the l820’s DEAN A. FALES JR. June 1973 COVER: Second-floor reading room at the Boston Athenaeum Photograph by Joseph C. Farber FRONTISPIECE: Entrance to the Boston Athenaeum, 10 ½ Beacon Street The monumental art of Abbott H. Thayer THOMAS B. BRUMBAUGH Portrait busts in the library of the Boston Athenaeum WALTER MUIR WHITEHILL Ellerslie, a Scotsman’s villa in Virginia CALDER LOTH Living with antiques: Ellerslie, the home of Mrs. John Dunlop near Petersburg. Virginia CONOVER HUNT Early American bookbindings from the collection of Michael Papantonio HANNAH DUSTIN FRENCH The Goodspeed Opera House: preservation in East Haddam, Connecticut BARBARA SNOW DELANEY A portrait by John Mare identified: “Uncle Jeremiah" HELEN BURR SMITH July 1973 COVER: The Maison Carrée in Nimes, France Photograph by Joseph C. Farber FRONTISPIECE: Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale, 1805 A Henry Clay and other flasks HELEN MCKEARIN The furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle. Part II: The pedestal tables. ROBERT C. SMITH Hotels for business or pleasure in lithographs CHARLES E. MASON JR. AND BETTINA A. NORTON The sentimental paintings of Lilly Martin Spencer ROBIN BOLTON-SMITH Thomas Jefferson and the Roman askos of Nimes JULIAN P. BOYD The lost Ceracchi bust of Thomas Jefferson JAMES THOMAS August 1973 COVER: Palladio’s Villa Foscari at Malcontenta, c. 1560 Photograph by Joseph C. Farber FRONTISPIECE: Villa Barbaro at Maser, built l555-l559 Photograph by Joseph C. Farber Cup plates in America JANE SHADEL SPILLMAN The arts and crafts movement in America 1876-1916 DAVID A. HANKS Jonas Chickering: “The father of American piano forte-making” HELEN RICE HOLLIS Sewing tools in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg SANDRA C. SHAFFER The villas of Andrea Palladio. 1508-1580 FREDERICK DOVETON NICHOLS The furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle. Part III: The worktables ROBERT C. SMITH September 1973 COVER: Governor and Mrs. Jonathan Trumbull, by John Trumbull FRONTISPIECE: An eighteenth-century Connecticut writing sheet and its pictorial prototypes American paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Part I: The eighteenth century DAVID A. HANKS Connecticut portraits at the Connecticut Historical Society ANDREW OLIVER Benjamin West’s Death of Socrates: A new phase in the life of a venerable American history piece ANN C. VAN DEVANTER Colifichets, double-face embroideries on paper MARGARET SWAIN Beau-brummel dressing tables in America ELIZABETH STILLINGER William Haydon and William H. Stewart ANTHONY A. P. STUEMPFIG A distinctive group of early Vermont painted furniture CAROLINE HEBB New York City furniture bought for Fountain Elms BARBARA FRANCO October 1973 COVER: Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia Photograph by Thomas C. Bradshaw II FRONTISPIECE: China Trade porcelain covered jug, c. 1800 An ANTIQUES book preview. A History of American Pewter CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY George Henkels, nineteenth-century Philadelphia cabinetmaker KENNETH AMES The buildings of Washington and Lee University PARKE ROUSE JR. An ANTIQUES book preview. Versatile Yankee: The Art of Jonathan Fisher, I768-1847 ALICE WINCHESTER Queen Anne style desks from the Virginia piedmont WALLACE B. GUSLER The Reeves collection of China Trade porcelain at Washington and Lee University CALLIE HUGER EFIRD AND KATHARINE GROSS FARNHAM Henry Chapman Mercer: tilemaker, collector, and builder extraordinary CLAIRE GILBRIDE FOX Memorial watercolors BEATRIX T. RUMFORD November 1973 American painting issue COVER: Detail of Twilight in the Wilderness, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 FRONTISPIECE: Fourth of Julv Picnic at Weymouih Landing, by Susan T. Merrett, c. 1845-1850 Thomas Eakins’ portrait of Mrs. William D. Frishmuth. collector SYNNOVE HAUGHOM Nineteenth-century American paintings in the Montclair Art Museum HOWARD B. LEIGHTON Asahel Powers, painter of Vermont faces NINA FLETCHER LITTLE Colonial and nineteenth-century American paintings at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art R. PETER MOOZ Henry FewSmith and the Dusseldorf academy DAVID M. SOKOL J. A. Davis NORBERT AND GAIL SAVAGE Painted portraits and busts in the American Philosophical Society WHITFIELD J. BELL JR. American paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Part II: The nineteenth century DAVID A. HANKS American landscape paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art WILLIAM S. TALBOT December 1973 COVER: Christmas Kitchen in the Israel Crane House Montclair, New Jersey Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Interior of First Church of Christ Congregational, East Haddam, Connecticut The Hooper family coffeepot by Paul Revere DAVID B. WARREN Thornton MacNess Niven, architect ARTHUR CHANNING DOWNS JR. The Israel Crane House in Montclair, New Jersey JULIA S. BERRALL The Old Merchant’s House in New York City CHARLES LOCKWOOD Room furnishing as seen in British prints from the Lewis Walpole Library. Part I: Bed hangings FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY Dutch influences in American painting DENIS R. O’NEILL The architecture of Lavius Fillmore LAWRENCE WODEHOUSE Peter Glass, a maker of American marquetry RICHARD AHLBORN Quilts at the University of Kansas Museum of Art LEA ROSSON January 1974 COVER: London’s Crystal Palace of 1851. Lithograph from Dickinson ’s Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition of 1851; Cooper-Hewitt Museum FRONTISPIECE: Peacock. Early nineteenth-century tinsmith’s sign Living with antiques: The William Peters House Crosscurrents in China Trade porcelain CLARE LE CORBEILLER The silver of England’s West Country MARGARET HOLLAND The landscape mirror and glass DEBORAH JEAN WARNER Cecilia Beaux, the grande dame of American portraiture FREDERICK D. HILL Staffordshire transfer-printed ware from the Thayer collection PAMELA D. KINGSBURY Louis Simond, amateur artist WENDY J. SHADWELL The furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle. Part IV: Some case pieces ROBERT C. SMITH Chinese snuff bottles ANDREW HSUEH London’s Crystal Palace of 1851 PAUL HOLLISTER Benjamin Franklin and the Wistarburg glassworks ARLENE PALMER February 1974 COVER: In the Lion’s Den, by W. H. Rogers, c.1840 FRONTISPIECE: Kuan Yü, Chinese god of war James and Ralph Clews, nineteenth-century potters. Part I: The English experience FRANK STEFANO JR. Prints of Abraham Lincoln HAROLD HOLZER The Chinese collection of A. E. van Braam Houckgeest CHARLES H. CARPENTER JR. An ANTIQUES book preview: The Flowering of American Folk Art JEAN LIPMAN AND ALICE WINCHESTER American samplers and needlework pictures in the DAR Museum. Part I: 1739-1806 ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Nonacademic English painting BEATRIX T. RUMFORD Nineteenth-century American genre painting HERMANN WARNER WILLIAMS JR. The Tillou collection of nineteenth-century American paintings PAUL F. ROVETTI The Van Vechten house, Greene County, New York PETER W. COOK March 1974 COVER: John Hart house, Hardin County, Kentucky Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Grecian couch, probably Philadelphia The furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle. Part V: Sofas, chairs, and beds ROBERT C. SMITH Room furnishings as seen in British prints from the Lewis Walpole Library. Part II: Window curtains, upholstery, and slip covers FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY The Islamic tradition in Spanish rug weaving: Twelfth through seventeenth centuries SARAH B. SHERRILL James Clews, nineteenth-century potter. Part II: The American experience FRANK STEFANO JR. Early prints and maps of Kentucky, 1784-1835 MARTIN F. SCHMIDT Collecting antiques in Kentucky fifty years ago JAMES L. COGAR Steamboats of Kentucky's Green River HELEN BARTTER CROCKER Kentucky coin-silver pitchers WILLIAM BARROW FLOYD Some historic architecture of western Kentucky RILEY HANDY The eclectic Paul Sawyier ARTHUR F. JONES Kentucky’s early stone houses CAROLYN MURRAY WOOLEY Shaker industries in Kentucky JULIA NEAL History in towns: Georgetown, Kentucky ANN BOLTON BEVINS April 1974 Kentucky Issue COVER: Detail of Oakland House and Race Course, Louisville, 1840 by Robert Brammer and Augustus A. Von Smith Sr. Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Detail of Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, by George Caleb Bingham, 1851-1852 Kentucky, a brief history ROBERT EMMETT McDOWELL The centennial of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1974 THRUSTON B. MORTON Kentucky quilts MIRIAM GITTLEMAN TUSKA The log houses of Kentucky JAMES C. THOMAS Edward Troye, sporting artist. Portraits of ante-bellum Kentuckians WILLIAM BARROW FLOYD Ante-bellum Kentucky silver HENRY H. HARNED Nineteenth-century Kentucky glass HENRY CHARLES EDELEN Public architecture in Kentucky before 1870 LOIS L. OLCOTT The Kentucky long rifle: Some Bardstown examples THOMAS A. STROHFELDT Historic preservation: Gratz Park in Lexington RICHARD SURRIDGE DeCAMP Audubon in Kentucky EDWARD H. DWIGHT Louisville mansions from the Civil War to World War I WALTER E. LANGSAM Kentucky Federal furniture LOIS L. OLCOTT Josiah reconsidered: a Green County school of inlay cabinetmaking KEITH N. MORGAN History in towns: Russellville, Kentucky ALBERT SMITH Kentucky’s coverlets LOU TATE Federal houses in Kentucky BETTYE LEE MASTIN Kentucky barns SARAH LANSDELL History in towns: Frankfort, Kentucky SALLY WILLIS MEIGS May 1974 American Furniture Issue COVER: Detail of a cherry high chest of drawers from eastern Connecticut, c. 1780 FRONTISPIECE: Eagle inlay on a New York linen press, 1800-1810 The Bachman attributions: a reconsideration JOHN J. SNYDER JR. Benjamin Ilsley, cabinetmaker in Federal Portland MARTHA GANDY FALES Some eagle-decorated furniture at the Department of State CLEMENT E. CONGER AND JANE W. POOL Recent discoveries in Boston japanned furniture ELIZABETH RHOADES AND BROCK JOBE The Barbour collection of Connecticut furniture in the Connecticut Historical Society BENJAMIN GINSBURG Early Texas furniture DONALD C. STOVER The Shaker furniture of Elder Henry Green MARY GRACE CARPENTER AND CHARLES H. CARPENTER JR. William Randall, Boston japanner RICHARD RANDALL Montreal Cabinetmakers and chairmakers: 1800-1850 ELIZABETH COLLARD The crown and york chairs of coastal Connecticut and the work of the Durands of Milford BENNO M. FORMAN New York sideboard in the Colonial Williamsburg collection. A reattribution BARRY A. GREENLAW June 1974 COVER: The Old, Old Story, by Junius Brutus Stearns, 1882. Art Museum, Princeton University FRONTISPIECE: Vase by Louis C. Tiffany, c. 1900 Tiffany’s abstractions in glass ROBERT KOCH Nineteenth-century American fly rods KENNETH M. CAMERON Scottish glass: a royal service PHELPS WARREN Isaac E. Scott, craftsman and designer DAVID A. HANKS Isaiah Rogers’ Tremont Theatre in Boston RICHARD STODDARD A Southern bed rugg SANDRA SHAFFER TINKHAM Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia WILLIAM SEALE July 1974 COVER: Detail of United States Capitol, attributed to Hippolyte Louis Garnier (1802-1855). c. 1845 Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum FRONTISPIECE: Thomas Jefferson, by Mather Brown, 1786 The French painter Victor de Grailly and the production of nineteenth-century American views WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS English glass collections outside of London EDITH GAINES Some recent gifts of creamware to Colonial Williamsburg JOHN C. AUSTIN Lithophanes LOUISE BRUNER The Best family of silversmiths JANE SIKES August 1974 COVER: Detail from House and Shop of David Ailing, Chairmaker, artist unknown, c. 1835. New Jersey Historical Society FRONTISPIECE: Corner of the front parlor in the John Gray house Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Fine arts in the New Jersey Historical Society MARVIN D. SCHWARTZ History in towns: Mineral Point, Wisconsin ROBERT M. NEAL Neoclassical furniture in Russia MARY CHAMOT Sewer-pipe pottery in Rochester, New York GEORGE R. HAMELL Snowman figures from Longton Hall, Staffordshire BERNARD M. WATNEY The Radford brothers: Portland cabinetmakers of the Federal period EARLE G. SHETTLEWORTH JR. September 1974 COVER: Underhill Center, Vermont Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: The Old Round Church, Richmond, Vermont. On the digging of potteries. DONALD BLAKE WEBSTER Salem Female Academy BETTY RING Albion Harris Bicknell WAYNE CRAVEN Silver made in the north of England MARGARET HOLLAND October 1974 COVER: Dwight-Barnard house, Deerfield, Massachusetts Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Mark Twain’s house. Hartford, Connecticut Brick architecture in Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1797-1825 J.P. SPANG III Mark Twain’s house in Hartford, Connecticut WILSON H. FAUDE The C.I.N.O.A. exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art SARAH B. SHERRILL Book preview: The Painters’ America PATRICIA HILLS Book preview: The National Trust Guide to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland ROBIN FEDDEN AND ROSEMARY JOEKES The Terrace in New York’s Central Park ESTHER LEWITTES History in towns: New Paltz, New York ELIZABETH STILLINGER November 1974 American Painting Issue COVER: The Tea Party, by Henry Sargent. c. 1821-1825 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston FRONTISPIECE: Politics in the Oyster House, by Richard Caton Woodville, 1848 Walters Art Gallery American narrative painting DONELSON F. HOOPES How pictures were used in New England houses, 1825-1850 BEATRIX T. RUMFORD A gallery for Alfred Jacob Miller RICHARD H. RANDALL JR. Winslow Homer and Mr. Hardy Lee, His Yacht ERIC RUDD American paintings in the Walters Art Gallery WILLIAM R. JOHNSTON Humor and philosophy in the paintings of Francis William Edmonds MAYBELLE MANN Winslow Homer's lithographic portraits for Abner Morse’s genealogies DAVID TATHAM December 1974 COVER: The Seventeenth-Century Room at the Concord Antiquarian Society. Photograph by Richard Merrill FRONTISPIECE: An old-fashioned Christmas in the Hudson River valley The Concord Antiquarian Society and its museum NANCY DODGE HARTFORD Living with antiques: An eighteenth-century farmhouse in the Hudson River valley SARAH B. SHERRILL Nuremberg toys in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection ELIZABETH P. REYNOLDS AND JUDITH WINSLOW BLOOD Carolina gold and the U.S. Branch Mint in Charlotte DAISY WADE BRIDGES January 1975 COVER: John Brown House, Providence, Rhode Island Photograph by Richard Merrill FRONTISPIECE: Rural winter scene, Chittenden County, Vermont Eighteenth-century wall decoration in the John Brown House in Providence, Rhode Island SUSAN G. FERGUSON History in towns: Washington, Arkansas TYLER HARDEMAN Exports of furniture, chaises, and other wooden forms from Providence and Newport, 1783-1795 JOSEPH K. OTT Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey JANE B. DAVIES Joseph B. Barry, Philadelphia cabinetmaker ROBERT T. TRUMP Antique and reproduction furnishing fabrics in historic houses and period rooms FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY Joseph Richardson and family, Philadelphia silversmith MARTHA GANDY FALES February 1975 COVER: Detail of Sealers Crushed by Icebergs, by William Bradford, l866 Whaling Museum, New Bedford FRONTISPIECE: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860 Frontier America: the Far West JONATHAN FAIRBANKS AND ELISABETH SUSSMAN American painters of the Arctic LEWIS A. SHEPARD Worked pocketbooks SUSAN B. SWAN Stoneware gin flasks: legacy of the damned IVOR NOEL HUME Some contemporary paintings of Abraham Lincoln HAROLD HOLZER Pastel portraits in the Winterthur Museum KAROL A. SCHMIEGEL Folk art in America: a living tradition BEATRIX RUMFORD March 1975 COVER: Horatio Gates at Saratoga, by James Peale, c. 1800. Maryland Historical Society FRONTISPIECE: Aquatic Life, cameo vase by George Woodall Pilkington Glass Museum James Swan’s French Furniture ELEANOR P. DELORME Glass from the Pilkington Glass Museum EDITH GAINES Rockefeller Center CAROL HERSELLE KRINSKY History in towns: Marshall, Michigan JOHN J. COLLINS Hobbs Brockunier’s fancy glass ROBERT E. DI BARTOLOMEO A Peale exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society ROMAINE STEC SOMERVILLE April 1975 COVER: Bed rugg, c. 1778. Wool on wool; flat darning stitches on tabbyweave ground Connecticut Historical Society FRONTISPIECE Interior of the Asa Knight store, Old Sturbridge Village The Balch school in Providence, Rhode Island BETTY RING The Asa Knight store, Old Sturbridge Village JOHN O. CURTIS AND CAROLINE FULLER SLOAT Stocking the Asa Knight store JANE C. NYLANDER AND FRANK G. WHITE American samplers and needlework pictures in the DAR Museum. Part II: 1806-1840 ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Embroideries in some English National Trust properties MARY GOSTELOW Textiles in the Connecticut Historical Society CORA GINSBURG Moose-hair embroidery on birch bark MARGARET SWAIN The Forbes family of silversmiths RACHAEL B. CRAWFORD May 1975 American Furniture Issue COVER: Detail, side chair, Philadelphia, 1755-1795 Pendleton House, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design FRONTISPIECE: Pedestal, Boston, c. 1818 Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Boston Empire furniture, Part I PAGE TALBOTT The price book of the District of Columbia cabinetmakers, 1831 WENDELL GARRETT Cabinetmakers and chairmakers of Washington, D.C., 1791-1840 ANNE CASTRODALE GOLOVIN The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design HEDY B. LANDMAN Some Rhode Island furniture JOSEPH K. OTT Living with antiques in the South ARDEN ROOT Carved Chippendale case furniture from Lancaster, Pennsylvania JOHN J. SNYDER JR. June 1975 COVER: Boston’s Old City Hall Photograph by Jon Maguire FRONTISPIECE: Portrait of Mrs. Moses Seymour (nee Molly Marsh; 1752-1826) and her son Epaphroditus (1783-1853) by Ralph Earl (1751-1801), 1789. St. Louis Art Museum Boston’s Old City Hall KATHRYN WELCH Cast-iron architecture on Beacon Hill in Boston ROBERT MACKAY Massachusetts gravestones DANIEL FARBER The first Harrison Gray Otis House RICHARD NYLANDER Book preview: Chester County, Pennsylvania, Inventories, 1684-1850 MARGARET B. SCHIFFER The Shakers of Maine MARIUS B. PELADEAU George Platt, interior decorator (1812-1873) H. WARD JANDL American paintings in the St. Louis Art Museum CHARLES E. BUCKLEY July 1975 COVER: Detail of coin-silver mace by William Adams (b. 1801), New York, 1841, for the United States House of Representatives FRONTISPIECE: John Adams, by Mather Brown, 1788 Boston Athenaeum William Adams and the mace of the United States House of Representatives JOAN SAYERS BROWN Paul Revere's Boston. 1735-1818 WENDY ANN COOPER Portraits of Dr. Benjamin Rush ROBERT ERWIN JONES, M.D. The Signers’ ladies ANN VAN DEVANTER August 1975 COVER: Carved drop on the Hubbard-Brown house, Hamilton, Massachusetts, c. 1680 Photograph by William W. Owens Jr. FRONTISPIECE: Large Dutch Delft dish, 1711 – 1712 The Canton pattern HIRAM TINDALL Seventy years of Steuben glass EDITH GAINES Collecting Dutch Delft plates PHELPS WARREN A collection of early American blown glass JUNE AND ALBERT LAUZON Sheldon Peck MARIANNE E. BALAZS September 1975 Texas Issue COVER: Nichols-Rice-Cherry house in Houston, Texas Photograph by Helga Photo Studio FRONTISPIECE: Pine cupboard, Texas, 1835-1840, containing Texas-made pottery Westering America. The Amon Carter Museum collection, Fort Worth PETER H. HASSRICK Historic preservation: The King William section of San Antonio JACK R. MCGREGOR Living with antiques: A distinguished Houston collection ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT The Magoffin homestead, an adobe in El Paso BETSY KNIGHT History in towns: Galveston, Texas ELLEN BEASLEY Harris County Heritage Society of Houston PETER M. RIPPE A Houston collection of American antiques The Open Gates: the George Sealy house in Galveston ELEANOR H. GUSTAESON The McGregor-Grimm house at Winedale, Texas LONN TAYLOR Living with antiques: Hatfield Plantation in Washington County, Texas October 1975 COVER: Temple, New Hampshire Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Pages from Sheffield and Birmingham tool and hardware catalogues Andrew Stevenson, Staffordshire potter, in New York FRANK STEFANO JR. History in towns: Temple, New Hampshire WILLIAM N. BANKS Johannes Spitler, Shenandoah County, Virginia, furniture decorator DONALD WALTERS Charles Carroll of Carrollton ANN VAN DEVANTER The animal kingdom of Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait PATRICIA C. F. MANDEL Mail orders in the eighteenth century A. HYATT MAYOR A collection of American folk painting HOWARD A. FELDMAN November 1975 American Painting Issue COVER: Poor Artist's Cupboard, by Charles Bird King (1785-1862), c. 1815 Corcoran Gallery of Art FRONTISPIECE: Cleopatra, by Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818-1881), 1873 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston American paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. MARCHAL E. LANDGREN Nicholas Biddle in portraiture NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Winslow Homer’s creative process JOHN WILMERDING Neoclassic sculpture in America: Greco-Roman sources and their results CORNELIUS C. VERMEULE George Hetzel, landscape painter of western Pennsylvania DONALD A. WINER Emanuel Leutze: portraitist BARBARA S. GROSECLOSE David G. Blythe’s Civil War paintings DONALD D. KEYES AND LISA TAFT December 1975 COVER: Detail of a Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and candleholders popular at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. FRONTISPIECE: J. Spaulding and Sons and Company's gristmill, Townsend Harbor Massachusetts Photograph by William W. Owens Jr. The lighted Christmas tree PHILLIP V. SNYDER Paintings at the Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin MILLARD F. ROGERS JR. The colonial dessert table LOUISE C. BELDEN Living with antiques: River House, Chestertown. Maryland SARAH B. SHERRILL The two worlds of Robert Loftin Newman MARCHAL E. LANDGREN Thomas Eakins’ The Concert Singer SYNNOVE HAUGHOM January 1976 COVER: View of La Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Hall of mirrors in La Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico Oriental carpets in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America SARAH B. SHERRILL PUERTO RICO: Past and present in Old San Juan ALICE WINCHESTER José Campeche, San Juan artist ALICE WINCHESTER Living with antiques: The Casa de los Azulejos ALICE WINCHESTER Puerto Rico’s executive mansion ALICE WINCHESTER THE BAHAMA ISLANDS: Living with antiques: Potlatch Club at Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera WENDELL GARRETT February 1976 COVER: Drayton Hall on the Ashley River in South Carolina Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Oval mirror, probably New York City, 1835-1845 Photograph by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard Francis Blackwell Mayer JEAN JEPSON PAGE Drayton Hall FRANCES R. EDMUNDS English pottery in Charlotte, North Carolina, collections DAISY WADE BRIDGES The Carroll Mansion in Baltimore THOMAS S. EADER Fort Monroe: a medieval relic PARKE ROUSE JR. Architecture and sculpture in nineteenth-century mirror frames ROBERT C. SMITH Richard Clague, New Orleans painter ROULHAC B. TOLEDANO Edward Hicks and his sources JAMES AYRES March 1976 COVER: Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield, Connecticut Photograph by Eric S. Allegretti and Mark S. Gibson FRONTISPIECE: Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, Connecticut Photograph by Eric S. Allegretti and Mark S. Gibson Wethersfield, “the most auncient town” in Connecticut LOIS M. WIEDER The towns of Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, and Newington RONNA L. REYNOLDS Wethersfield people and their portraits RONNA L. REYNOLDS The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum SUSAN FINLAY WATKINS Connecticut needlework in the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum SUSAN FINLAY WATKINS Early brick architecture of Wethersfield ANNE CROFOOT KUCKRO Historic preservation in Wethersfield LOIS M. WIEDER A Wethersfield family collection ANNE CROFOOT KUCKRO Living with antiques in Wethersfield LEE G. KUCKRO The Colt industrial empire in Hartford SARAH BRADFORD LANDAU April 1976 COVER: View of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, artist unknown, c. 1850 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Ott FRONTISPIECE: Mahogany desk-and-bookcase, attributed to Samuel Bennett (d. 1741) Photograph by Arthur Vitols The peaceable kingdom theme in American folk painting N.F. KARLINS Living with antiques: The house of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Masterson. Houston. Texas American furniture in the DAR Museum ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Silver made in Birmingham MARGARET HOLLAND A peaceable kingdom of Staffordshire animals JEROME IRVING SMITH The landscape of change: Views of rural New England, 1790-1865 JAY E. CANTOR Documented Philadelphia looking glasses, 1800-1850 PETER L. L. STRICKLAND May 1976 American Furniture Issue COVER: Detail of a card table attributed to Charles Honoré Lannuier (1779-1819), New York, C. 1815 Maryland Historical Society FRONTISPIECE: Detail of the Paine family cupboard, Essex County, Massachusetts, seventeenth century Massachusetts Historical Society Furniture owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society PATRICIA E. KANE Furniture at the Maryland Historical Society ROMAINE S. SOMERVILLE Living with antiques: The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Morrison DONALD C. PIERCE Collecting American decorative arts in New England: Part I: 1793-1876 RICHARD H. SAUNDERS Boston Empire furniture, Part II PAGE TALBOTT The Gothic revival style in America, 1830-1870 KATHERINE SUSMAN HOWE Gothic revival furniture in Philadelphia DAVID A. HANKS Living with antiques: Lee B. Anderson’s collection of American Gothic revival furniture and paintings, New York City SARAH B. SHERRILL Architects as furniture designers CHANNING BLAKE A. H. Davenport and Company, Boston furniture makers ANNE FARNAM Thomas Jefferson’s “Whirligig” chairs CHARLES L. GRANQUIST June 1976 COVER: New York City Hall, designed by Joseph F. Mangin and John McComb Jr., built 1803-1811, and environs Photograph by Joseph C. Farber FRONTISPIECE: Abigail Adams, by Mather Brown (1761-1831), 1785 Regional preferences and characteristics in American decorative arts: 1750-1800 CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY Rustic furniture in the Adirondacks, 1875-1925 CRAIG GILBORN Cushing and White’s copper weather vanes MYRNA KAYE The architectural heritage of New York City JOSEPH C. FARBER AND ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT July 1976 COVER: Gilded-pine eagle attributed to William Rush (1756-1833), 1810-1820 Philadelphia Museum of Art FRONTISPIECE: Benjamin Franklin, by Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), 1778 The Declarations of Independence JOHN MAASS The portrait busts of John H. I. Browere JOHN H. DEMER The eye of Thomas Jefferson: Americans and French eighteenth-century furniture in the age of Jefferson F. J. B. WATSON Philadelphia: three centuries of American art: Furniture and silver of the eighteenth century Philadelphia: three centuries of American art: Paintings and sculpture of the nineteenth century American ceramics and the Philadelphia Centennial J. G. STRADLING Alfred Cornelius Howland: the education of an artist WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS August 1976 COVER: View near Barre, Vermont Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Man’s embroidered cap, probably France, 1725-1775 Some print sources of New England schoolgirl art JANE C. NYLANDER Mrs. Saunders’ and Miss Beach’s Academy, Dorchester BETTY RING A second Lehman collection LARRY SALMON The Simon and Betje Straus collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English ceramics LOUISE SMITH BROSS Sheffield silver MARGARET HOLLAND The furniture of Fourdinois KENNETH L. AMES The early interiors of Carrère and Hastings CHANNING BLAKE September 1976 COVER: On the War Path, lithograph after a painting by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), 1872 William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan FRONTISPIECE: View of the Shenandoah River, Virginia Photograph by Robert T. Lautman On the War Path, by John Mix Stanley JAMES BARTLETT Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago silversmith DAVID A. HANKS History in towns: Pensacola, Florida LINDA V. ELLSWORTH Jacob Strickler, Shenandoah County, Virginia, fraktur artist DONALD R. WALTERS The William H. Culmer house, Salt Lake City, Utah PETER L. GOSS Furniture of the Georgia Piedmont before 1830 HENRY D. GREEN October 1976 COVER: View from Olana overlooking the Hudson River, New York Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: “The Day We Celebrate,” Commemorative of 1876, lithograph by John C. McRae after a painting by Frederic A. Chapman, 1888 Glass from six centuries: An exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut DWIGHT P. LANMON Collecting American decorative arts in New England: Part II: 1876-1910 RICHARD H. SAUNDERS Olana – the artist as architect PETER L. GOSS History in towns: Tappan, New York ELIZABETH STILLINGER The H. Graves Terwilliger Collection of Frankenthal porcelain ARMIN B. ALLEN Living with antiques: Wyberton Park, Boston, Lincolnshire, England FRANCIS C. WHITAKER The St. Johns Stone Chinaware Company ELIZABETH COLLARD November 1976 American Painting Issue COVER: Detail of The County Election, by George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), 1851-1852 St. Louis Art Museum; photograph by Jack Savage FRONTISPIECE: Joseph Moore and His Family, by Erastus Salisbury Field, 1839 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston American paintings at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design PATRICIA C. F. MANDEL American paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts JEFFREY R. BROWN Paintings at the New England Historic Genealogical Society JAMES B. BELL AND CYNTHIA DUNN FLEMING Paintings by New England provincial artists, 1775-1800 NINA FLETCHER LITTLE Family portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston LAURA C. LUCKEY Nineteenth-century American painting and sculpture at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin JAMES F. JENSEN American paintings in the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts DEAN FLOWER AND FRANCIS MURPHY Portraits in City Hall, New York EDITH AND HAROLD HOLZER Mary Ann Willson N. F. KARLINS Artists working in the South, 1750-1820 CAROLYN J. WEEKLEY Zedekiah Belknap ELIZABETH R. MANKIN December 1976 COVER: Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts, built 1805-1806 Photograph by Richard Cheek FRONTISPIECE: Table set for dessert in the Charleston Dining Room, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Gore Place, Federal mansion in Waltham, Massachusetts PETER A. WICK Some newly discovered book illustrations by Winslow Homer DAVID TATHAM Fifty years of Colonial Williamsburg CARLISLE H. HUMELSINE American painted furniture at the Brooklyn Museum, 1675-1875 DONALD C. PEIRCE American tin toys at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection JUDITH BLOOD Book preview: Pittsburgh Glass – 1797-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors LOWELL INNES January l977 COVER: Maryland Statehouse, Annapolis Photograph by M. E. Warren FRONTISPIECE: Restored garden of the William Paca House Annapolis: a brief historical summary ST. CLAIR WRIGHT Creation of a historic district in Annapolis PRINGLE HART SYMONDS The town plan of Annapolis RUSSELL J. WRIGHT Historic preservation in Annapolis ST. CLAIR WRIGHT Urban design RICHARD KEARNS Saving the William Paca House ST. CLAIR WRIGHT The restoration of the interior of the William Paca House RUSSELL J. WRIGHT Furnishing the museum rooms of the William Paca House GREGORY R. WEIDMAN The Paca House garden restored ST. CLAIR WRIGHT Great houses from the golden age of Annapolis GEORGE B. TATUM The Hammond-Harwood House: a colonial masterpiece WILLIAM H. PIERSON JR. The Annapolis cityscape RICHARD KEARNS February 1977 COVER: George Washington, by Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), 1788-1791 Photograph by Robert T. Lautman FRONTISPIECE: Walking sticks Washington memorial prints DAVIDA TENENBAUM DEUTSCH The lamps and candlesticks of the Meriden Britannia Company RICHARD L. BOWEN JR. Walking sticks in a Southern collection J.WILLIAM STONE JR. Portrait painting in eighteenth century Annapolis CAROLYN J. WEEKLEY Maryland furniture, 1760-1840 WILLIAM VOSS ELDER III John Shaw, cabinetmaker of Annapolis LU BARTLETT William Faris Sr., his sons, and journeymen – Annapolis silversmiths JOAN SAYERS BROWN March 1977 COVER: Auburn in Natchez, Mississippi, built 1812 Photograph by Helga Photo Studio FRONTISPIECE: Bedroom of the Hays-Kiser house, Antioch, Tennessee Living with antiques: The Hays-Kiser house, Antioch, Tennessee JOHN KISER The John Wornall House, Kansas City, Missouri KATHLEEN NELSON TAGGART Historic preservation in Natchez, Mississippi RONALD W. MILLER Auburn in Natchez MILLY MCGEHEE Edwin Lyon, an Anglo-American sculptor in the lower Mississippi River valley H. PARROTT BACOT AND BETHANY B. LAMBDIN History in houses: The Sam Davis Home, Smyrna, Tennessee ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT April 1977 COVER: Wrought-iron kitchen utensils Photograph by Cortlandt V. D. Hubbard FRONTISPIECE: Flowering Lotus lamp made by Tiffany Studios, c. l905 Chrysler Museum Institute of Glass Tiffany glass at the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia PAUL E. DOROS Treasures from Laurelton Hall MARENA R. GRANT A copperplate-printed Irish textile DENA S. KATZENBERG “Remember the Ladies”. Women in America, 1750-1815 CONOVER HUNT-JONES Alkaline glazes and groundhog kilns: Southern pottery traditions GEORGEANNA H. GREER Greentown glass: Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company CATHERINE BETH LIPPERT AND JAMES S. MEASELL Art in wrought iron: the collection of James C. Sorber, West Chester, Pennsylvania LITA H. SOLIS-COHEN Tin-glazed pottery of Puebla, Mexico CHARLOTTE WILCOXEN May 1977 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a chamber organ made by George G. Hook (1805-1881), Salem, Massachusetts, 1827 Essex Institute FRONTISPIECE: Central panel of a so-called sunflower chest, Connecticut, 1680- 1700 Milwaukee Art Center Furniture at the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts ANNE FARNAM American furniture in the Milwaukee Art Center KAREN M. JONES The furniture of Gustav Stickley CAROL LORRAINE BOHDAN AND TODD MITCHELL VOLPE Living with antiques: The Manhattan apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Living with antiques in Alexandria. Virginia SARAH B. SHERRILL Joseph True and the piecework system in Salem MARGARET BURKE CLUNIE Gothic revival furniture designs of Alexander J. Davis JANE B. DAVIES Norman Jones, Vermont cabinetmaker N. D. JONES William King Jr., Georgetown furniture maker ANNE CASTRODALE GOLOVIN Belter’s only patent model RODROS ROTH June 1977 COVER: Evergreen plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Bernard Constantine house, Savannah, Georgia The River Road plantations of Louisiana WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS Furniture of the River Road plantations in Louisiana JESSIE J. POESCH The restoration of San Francisco (St. Frusquin), Reserve, Louisiana HENRY W. KROTZER JR. G. P. A. Healy and his Louisiana portraits VAUGHN L. GLASGOW Living with antiques: The Bernard Constantine house in Savannah July 1977 COVER: London silver from the Elizabeth B. Miles collection. Two-handled cup and cover, 1654/5; steeple cup, 1621/2; sauceboat, 1821/2 Photograph by Frank Guida FRONTISPIECE: Detail of silver urn made by William Adams, New York, 1845 The funeral of Henry Clay JOAN SAYERS BROWN Henry Clay’s silver urn The hunt for the fishing lady A. HYATT MAYOR The Elizabeth B. Miles collection of English silver ELIZABETH B. MILES A Faneuil family silver cruet stand rediscovered RITA FEIGENBAUM Enoch Wood earthenware found in St. Paul's Church, Burslem PAMELA D. KINGSBURY Engravings of George Washington in the Stanley DeForest Scott collection SUZY WETZEL GROTE August 1977 COVER: Eastern Point Light, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1832, rebuilt 1890 Photograph by Samuel Chamberlain FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a Hadley chest, possibly Hatfield, Massachusetts Fertility symbols on the Hadley chests RICHARD LAWRENCE GREENE Candace Wheeler, textile designer WILSON H. FAUDE Benjamin Franklin's residence in France: The Hotel de Valentinois in Passy MEREDITH MARTINDALE American hotels on early Staffordshire FRANK STEFANO JR. Wine and spirit labels in Harvey's Wine Museum JUDITH BANISTER Iron candlestands: Made where, when, and by whom? CHARLES F. MONTGOMERY AND GERALD W. R. WARD September 1977 COVER: Cast- and wrought-iron gates in front of the house built by Theodore Guesnard in Mobile in 1855. Photograph by Helga Photo Studio FRONTISPIECE: Parcel-gilt cup, Tiffany and Company, New York, c. 1879 Historic preservation in Mobile DWIGHT L. YOUNG Transition and adaptation in Mobile architecture ELIZABETH B. GOULD Living with antiques: The Mobile residence of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Rutherford Jr. MARGARET ROSE INGATE The arts in Mobile SIDNEY ADAIR SMITH Living with antiques: The Marshall-Hixon house in Mobile MARGARET ROSE INGATE Nineteenth-century silver in the New York Yacht Club CHARLES H. CARPENTER JR. Folk art from the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum ELAINE EFF AND DONALD L. FENNIMORE Living with antiques: Old Richmond, the Houston guest cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Couper Jr. ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT October 1977 COVER: Orford Street, Orford, New Hampshire. The parsonage of the Congregational Church is at left, the Orford Social Library at right Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Meetinghouse, Rockingham, Vermont, 1787-1800 History in towns: Orford, New Hampshire ALICE DOAN HODGSON The master engravers of Corning, New York ESTELLE SINCLAIRE FARRAR Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Long Island furniture DEAN F. FAILEY Glass relating to William III, Part I, 1650-1694 PHELPS WARREN Reuben Swift, cabinetmaker of New Bedford MARILYNN JOHNSON BORDES November 1977 American painting COVER: George Booth (d. 1777), attributed to William Dering, 1745-1749 Colonial Williamsburg FRONTISPIECE: Harvest still life Book preview: Charles Bridges and William Dering; Two Virginia Painters, 1735-1750 GRAHAM HOOD Noah North (1809-1880) NANCY C. MULLER AND JACQUELYN OAK American paintings from the collection of John J. McDonough E. JOHN BULLARD Cummer Gallery of Art ROBERT W. SCHLAGETER Paintings of Ralph Earl at the Litchfield Historical Society LOCKETT FORD BALLARD JR. John S. Blunt ROBERT BISHOP Cosmo Alexander’s travels and patrons in America PAM MCLELLAN GEDDY December 1977 COVER: Peirce-Nichols House, Salem, Massachusetts, probably built 1782 Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: The Christmas Party, attributed to Robert D. Wilkie (1828-1903), c. 1850 China Trade armorial porcelain in America CLARE LE CORBEILLER Historic houses owned by the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts GERALD W. R. WARD AND BARBARA M. WARD Fabled fireplaces GEORGE B. JACKSON The Samuel Powel House in Philadelphia BILLYE-LEE ADAMS History in houses: The Jeremiah Lee mansion in Marblehead, Massachusetts NARCISSA G. CHAMBERLAIN Landscape wallpaper in the Jeremiah Lee mansion CATHERINE LYNN FRANGIAMORE January 1978 COVER: Detail of Winter Scene: The Red Fox, by James Hope (1818-1892), 1855 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photograph by Daniel Farber FRONTISPIECE: Bishop William White’s Study, by John Sartain (1808-1897), 1836 A private collection of rare Sheffield plate LOWRY DALE KIRBY History in towns: Castleton, Vermont WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS Missouri River German settlements: Part I: The buildings, 1831-1870 CHARLES VAN RAVENSWAAY Napoleon in Rhode Island. The Harold Brown collection at the Rhode Island School of Design CHRISTOPHER MONKHOUSE George R. Bonfield, Philadelphia marine painter JAMES MCCLELLAND James Herring, American portraitist CYNTHIA SEIBELS Glass relating to William III: Part II, 1702-1750 PHELPS WARREN Early trade bills of New York City LEO HERSHKOWITZ February 1978 COVER: Plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) by Thomas Dow Jones (1811-1881), 1860-1861 New-York Historical Society; photograph by Joseph Farber FRONTISPIECE: Smith-Playmakers Theater, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Photograph by Arthur Vitols Early architecture at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill JOHN V. ALLCOTT Sculptures of Abraham Lincoln from life HAROLD HOLZER AND LLOYD OSTENDORF Missouri River German settlements. Part II: The decorative arts, 1831-1900 CHARLES RAVENSWAAY Sources for the heart-and-crown chairs ROBERT F. TRENT New discoveries about Emma J. Cady RUTH PIWONKA AND RODERIC H. BLACKBURN The arts of the Spanish in New Mexico CHRISTINE MATHER Elbridge Wesley Webber SHERWOOD E. BAIN March 1978 COVER: Maple sugaring in Lamoille County, Vermont Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: View of Saint Joseph’s Academy, near Emmitsburg, Maryland by Ludwig Enke (c. 1830-1879 or 1880), c. 1873 Saint Joseph’s Academy in needlework pictures BETTY RING Furniture by the Lejambre family of Philadelphia PETER L. L. STRICKLAND Impressions of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont JOHN MILLER The early drawings of Elder Joshua Bussell ROBERT P. EMLEN April 1978 COVER: Entranceway, Casa San Ysidro, Corrales, New Mexico Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: The Monmouth County, New Jersey, house of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Dittmar Jr. Living with antiques: Casa San Ysidro, Corrales, New Mexico CHRISTINE MATHER Living with antiques: The residence of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Dittmar Jr. in Monmouth County, New Jersey ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Eighteenth-century ceramics at the DAR Museum JEAN TAYLOR FEDERICO Preparing and mixing colors in 1812 RICHARD M. CANDEE Glass relating to William III. Part III: 1750 – 1870 PHELPS WARREN A Japanese portrait of J. Murray Forbes AKIKO MURAKATA May 1978 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a late eighteenth-century table, Philadelphia Historical Society of Pennsylvania FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a painted chest, probably Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1784 Furniture at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania JAMES E. MOONEY The Pennsylvania-German decorated chest MONROE H. FABIAN American furniture at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts R. PETER MOOZ AND CAROLYN J. WEEKLEY Living with antiques: The Oaks, Richmond, Virginia WILLIAM M. S. RASMUSSEN Living with antiques: The Southern furniture collection of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Adams Jr. ELIZABETH TAYLOR CHILDS Furniture from the Atkinson-Lancaster collection at the New England Historic Genealogical Society JAMES B. BELL AND CYNTHIA DUNN FLEMING A desk associated with George Washington JOAN SAYERS BROWN Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American furniture at the Honolulu Academy of Arts JAMES F. J ENSEN Marked Portsmouth furniture MYRNA KAYE New Bedford furniture ELTON W. HALL June 1978 Winterthur Museum Issue COVER: Queen Anne Dining Room, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Photograph by courtesy of the museum FRONTISPIECE: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century objects from the collection of the Winterthur Museum Recollecting a collector JOHN A. H. SWEENEY The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum JAMES MORTON SMITH AND CHARLES F. HUMMEL July 1978 COVER: Silver skippet attached to a United States extradition treaty with the Netherlands, signed May 29, 1856 National Archives, Washington, D.C. FRONTISPIECE: Old Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky, built 1827-1830 The restored Old Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky WILLIAM BARROW FLOYD Old Capitol, Iowa City, Iowa MARGARET N. KEYES State House, Dover, Delaware ANN M. BAKER Skippets JOAN SAYERS BROWN Royal seals of colonial America PETER WALNE Seven paintings by Samuel F. B. Morse SALVATORE G. CILELLA JR. August 1978 COVER: Wheel-lock pistol, Augsburg, c. 1590, and gilt-brass powder flask, German, early seventeenth century State Art Collections, Dresden FRONTISPIECE: Copper coffeepot made by Benjamin Harbeson (1728-1809), Philadelphia, 1760-1795 Furniture of Williamsburg and eastern Virginia WALLACE B. GUSLER AND SUMPTER PRIDDY III Lambshead Ranch, Texas BETSY KNIGHT The Splendor of Dresden: Five Centuries of Art Collecting SARAH B. SHERRILL Powder horns of the French and Indian War, 1755-1763 WILLIAM H. GUTHMAN September 1978 COVER: Detail of The Yacht Namouna in Venetian Waters, by Julius L. Stewart (1855-1919), 1890 Wadsworth Atheneum; photograph by E. Irving Blomstrann FRONTISPIECE: Silver coffee urn made by Ephraim Brasher (1744-1810), New York, 1765-1775 The classical presence in American art American paintings before 1900 at the Wadsworth Atheneum KENT AHRENS History in towns: Eufaula, Alabama JOEL P. SMITH The new Carpet Museum of Iran, in Tehran SARAH B. SHERRILL Hatfield House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia MARY POWELL GRAHAM The Theodore H. Kapnek collection of American samplers ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT American folk painting: The Wiltshire collection RICHARD B. WOODWARD Two hoof spoons ALBERT SCHER October 1978 COVER: Gristmill, Farmington, Connecticut Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Covered coupe designed by P. H. Emile Froment-Meurice and modeled by Emile Francois Carlier, Paris, 1867 History in towns: Farmington, Connecticut JANICE C. RIEMER The art of the Second Empire JEAN-MARIE MOULIN A rare view of Canton on China Trade porcelain H. A. CROSBY FORBES Rococo revival furniture at the Western Reserve Historical Society JAIRUS B. BARNES The Mackay service made by Tiffany and Company CHARLES H. CARPENTER JR. Ashland THOMAS D. CLARK History in towns: Brownington, Vermont EDITH HERRICK November 1978 American painting COVER: Boy with a Squirrel, by John Singleton.Copley (1738-1815), 1765 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston FRONTISPIECE: View of Florence from San Miniato, by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), 1837 Thomas Cole and Italy WAYNE CRAVEN Thomas P. Otter HELEN HARTMAN GEMMILL The Butler Institute of American Art FREDERICK D. HILL Two headless horsemen of Sleepy Hollow CHASE VIELE American paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts NANCY J. RIVARD Cragsmoor, an early American art colony BARBARA BUFF Edward Clarke Cabot, watercolorist RICHARD L. ELIA The American Galleries at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum DONELSON F. HOOPES December 1978 COVER: Library in the Athenaeum of Philadelphia FRONTISPIECE: Skating at Kelley’s Dam, Germantown, by Christian Schussele, or Schuessele, and Paul Weber, 1856 Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Athenaeum of Philadelphia ROGER W. MOSS JR. The folk art of frontier Texas CECILIA STEINFELDT Daguerreotypes at the National Portrait Gallery HAROLD FRANCIS PFISTER Silversmiths, watch and clock makers, and jewelers in Columbus, Ohio, before 1865 ELIZABETH D. BECKMAN History in towns: Hudson, Ohio THOMAS L. VINCE January 1979 COVER: English eighteenth-century ceramic vases filled with flowers arranged by Jody Shoemaker Photograph by George Fistrovich FRONTISPIECE: House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts, built 1668 English eighteenth-century flower holders BETSY KENT History in houses: Wilton in Richmond, Virginia MARIA GREGORY TABB The identification of English-Canadian furniture, 178O—184O DONALD BLAKE WEBSTER Major Thomas Biddle's silver vases NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT Aaron Dean Fletcher, portrait painter VIRGINIA M. BURDICK AND NANCY C. MULLER February 1979 COVER: Detail of a crewelwork bed hanging, English, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century Wadsworth Atheneum FRONTISPIECE: Eighteenth-century drinking vessels and implements A set of English crewelwork bed hangings FLORENCE M. MONTGOMERY Mount Clare MICHAEL F. TROSTEL Memorial prints of Washington and Lincoln HAROLD HOLZER Selected silver cream boats JOAN SAYERS BROWN The first century of the English windsor chair, 1720-1820 SIMON JERVIS Tokens of friendship KAROL A. SCHMIEGEL March 1979 COVER: Detail of Wharves of Boston, by Robert Salmon (c. l775—c. 1850), 1829 Bostonian Society FRONTISPIECE: Detail of a lady’s writing desk made by Herter Brothers, New York City, c. 1875 Topographical and marine paintings in the Bostonian Society THOMAS WENDELL PARKER Kenmore in Fredericksburg, Virginia RUSSELL BASTEDO N.W. Scott Leighton SHERWOOD E. BAIN Joseph Clark, Maryland architect KYM SNYDER RICE Nineteenth-century American decorative arts in Houston KATHERINE S. HOWE Machine-stamped bookbindings, 1834-1860 SUE ALLEN April 1979 COVER: The Lindens, built 1754 in Danvers, Massachusetts, now in Washington, D.C. FRONTISPIECE: Early nineteenth-century rice mill at Middleton Place, near Charleston, South Carolina Living with antiques: The Lindens, Washington, D. C. NANCY A. ILIFF The sculpture of John Rogers HAROLD HOLZER AND JOSEPH FARBER Susan C. Waters COLLEEN COWLES HESLIP Middleton Place SARAH LYTLE The Revere at Liverpool FRANCIS H. GLEASON Glasses of the British sovereigns in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Australia PHELPS WARREN May 1979 American furniture issue COVER: Detail of a desk-and-bookcase, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, l780—1810 FRONTISPIECE: Marked Shaker tools Lancaster and other Pennsylvania furniture G. W. SCOTT JR. New York furniture at the Brooklyn Museum DONALD C. PEIRCE Documented New Hampshire furniture, 1750-1850 JOHN F. PAGE Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American furniture at the Wadsworth Atheneum PHILLIP JOHNSTON Who bought Webster and Parkes’ Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy? MINOR MYERS JR. History in houses: The Barrow-Pell Mansion in New York City JEAN SMITH BARTLETT AND MARY MEANS HUBER Living with antiques: The Connecticut home of Mr. and Mrs. David V. Andrews ALICE WINCHESTER Marked Shaker furnishings JUNE SPRIGG June 1979 COVER: New Hampshire: Land of Scenic Splendor, or Thy Templed Hills, by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), 1936. Oil on canvas, 30 by 24 ¼ inches Copyright by Brown and Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota; painting owned by the employees of the Vermont National bank, Windsor office FRONTISPIECE: Kings Landing Historical Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada Kings Landing Historical Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada CHARLES HENRY FOSS Faberge imperial Easter eggs in American collections CHRISTOPHER FORBES History in towns: Edenton, North Carolina WILLIAM NATHANIEL BANKS AND ELIZABETH VANN MOORE North Carolina furniture, 1700-1900 MICHAEL O. SMITH Living with antiques: Brookside, in Orwell, Vermont GEORGE VAN DERVEER GALLENKAMP AND RICHARD P. WUNDER Stephen and Maxfield Parrish in New Hampshire VIRGINIA REED COLBY July 1979 COVER: North facade of the White House, Washington, D. C. Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: John Jay (1745-1829), by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), 1794 Decorative arts at the White House CLEMENT E. CONGER The American painting collection of the White House JOHN WILMERDING Sculpture of the United States Capitol. Part I: Architectural sculpture HAROLD HOLZER AND JOSEPH FARBER A John Jay exhibition at the Supreme Court GAIL GALLOWAY AND SUSANNE OWENS The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, Bedford, New York ALLISON M. ECKHARDT The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City DAVID M. KAHN August 1979 Special Bermuda issue COVER: Courtyard of Springfield, Sandys Parish, Bermuda, built in the early eighteenth century. The buttery is at the center; the detached kitchen is at the right. Leading down to the top of the arch is a stone gutter which still channels rain water from the roof of the main house to an outside storage tank Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: An early Bermudian living room A history of Bermuda WILLIAM S. ZUILL Some notes on early Bermudian furniture COLIN COOKE AND SYLVIA SHORTO Bermuda’s unique architecture VERNON A. IVES The Bermuda National Trust WILLIAM S. ZUILL Living with antiques: Mount Pleasant, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Wardman Living with antiques: Blackburn Place, Warwick Parish Living with antiques: Woodside, Devonshire Parish September 1979 COVER: Lighting devices of the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century Private collections; photograph by George Fistrovich FRONTISPIECE: Gazebo in the garden of Villa Finale, San Antonio, Texas American furniture in Houston collections BARRY A. GREENLAW Living with antiques: Villa Finale: the San Antonio residence of Walter Nold Mathis ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT The Jonathan Sayward House, York, Maine RICHARD C. NYLANDER Living with antiques: The Wallace K. Harrison house on Long Island CAROL LORRAINE BOHDAN Musical instruments at Old Sturbridge Village ARTHUR F. SCHRADER Stoves in nineteenth-century New England FRANK G. WHITE Textiles at Old Sturbridge Village JANE NYLANDER October 1979 Old Sturbridge Village issue COVER: A timeless early autumn day in Old Sturbridge Village Photograph by Donald F. Eaton FRONTISPIECE: Pliny Freeman Farm, Old Sturbridge Village Old Sturbridge Village today DARWIN P. KELSEY Curator’s choice NINA FLETCHER LITTLE Decorated New England furniture HENRY J. HARLOW Signed and labeled New England furniture HENRY J. HARLOW Portraits at Old Sturbridge Village JOHN OBED CURTIS The Pliny Freeman Farm JAY ADAMS The buildings at Old Sturbridge Village JOHN OBED CURTIS November 1979 American painting issue COVER: Detail of The Architects Dream, by Thomas Cole (1801 -1848), 1840 Toledo Museum of Art FRONTISPIECE: God ’s Judgment upon Gog, by Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), 1852 American paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art SUSAN E. STRICKLER Asher B. Durand's imaginary landscapes WAYNE CRAVEN Early portraits in the Virginia Historical Society VIRGINIUS CORNICK HALL JR. George Cope, painter of West Chester, Pennsylvania GERTRUDE GRACE SILL Two portraits attributed to Robert Feke MARIE ELWOOD Nineteenth-century painters and patrons in Cincinnati DENNY CARTER December 1979 COVER: Seasonal sweetmeats at Ayrshire, Franktown, Colorado Photograph by Arthur Vitols FRONTISPIECE: Parlor of the John Quincy Adams Birthplace, Quincy, Massachusetts Christmas in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia JOAN CHURCH ROBERTS The birthplaces of John and John Quincy Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts H. HOBART HOLLY Living with antiques: Ayrshire, the Franktown, Colorado, residence of Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ayers ELISABETH DONAGHY GARRETT Indian-trade silver of the New York colonial frontier CHARLOTTE WILCOXEN Revised: 5/18/2015
