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1771 The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar John Trumbull 1789 Molly Wales
Curator Amelia Peck and Research Associate Moira Gallagher speak to Digital about what a period room is and the benefits of publishing the research that informs them online.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
Curator Andrew Bolton provides an overview of the themes and works to be explored in The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
How a fashion icon came to define the aesthetic of the “Harlem dandy”
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
; however, the queen, Anne of Denmark, and their son Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
The Costume Institute’s collection of more than 33,000 costumes and accessories represents five continents and seven centuries.
Grace Wales Bonner August 15 Sartorial Groundings: African Design at the Heart
"The Greenwich Armour of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and others presented to
Inscription: Engraved on the lower edges of the lock plates: H.HADLEY.Marking: Stamped on the top flats of the barrels: H/HAD/LEY (within an arched-top mark); LON/DON (within a rectangular mark); on the underside of the barrels: London proof marks; and a foreigner’s mark: F (beneath a crown)
the collection of George III (1738–1820), one bearing his crest when Prince of Wales
Said to have come from Alexandria (von Bothmer and d’Harnoncourt 1950, p. 9, no. 46) [Until 1926, with Maurice Nahman, Cairo]; [July 1926, purchased by Joseph Brummer from M. Nahman]; [1926-1948, with Joseph Brummer, New York (P3294)]; 1948, purchased by Walter C
Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece. p. 64, figs. 72–73, London: Classical Press of Wales
