Author: Dresser, Louisa (Editor)
Title: Xviith Century Painting in New England: A Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Worcester Art Museum in Collaboration with the American Antiquarian Society, July and August, 1934
Description: Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, 1935. Hardcover. Brown paper/boards. Goldenrod title block and spine with red lettering. bw frontispiece, 187 pp. with illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables, Catalogue and essay (The Rise and Development of Art in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) by Louisa Dresser. With the catalogue of portraits, each described in great detail, including provenance and, many times, the sitter's geneaology. Also includes a very lengthy essay by Allan Burroughs, "X-Ray Examination of Seventeenth Century American Paintings Exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum." Includes a sample record of examination (via x-ray) as well as images of some of the portraits both before and after restoration. Includes an index of top portraits. An excellent reference. Good, Covers/contents clean and tight but with darkening to end papers. Spine darkened and cracks to paper layers. Library bookplate inside front cover .

Keywords: American Art; Portraiture; 17th Century Art; Massachusetts Bay Colony ; American Portraiture ; Portraiture ; 17th Century Museum Exhibitions - American Art


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