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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
Though profoundly influenced by landscapists and history painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Turner was an innovator who has been hailed as a forerunner of modernist abstraction.
with visual records of scores of tours through England ( 89.15.9), Scotland, and Wales
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
"The Greenwich Armour of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and others presented to
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 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 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
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
