Mourning art & jewelry / Maureen DeLorme.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeLorme, Maureen.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Schiffer art book

A Schiffer art book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mourning customs.

History.

Mourning jewelry.

Bereavement in art.

Mourning customs--History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

253 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.

Other Title:

Mourning art and jewelry

Place of Publication:

Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., [2004]

Contents:

I: Historical background

Memento Mori: death in the Middle Ages

La Mort de Toi: death of "the other" in the Age of Enlightenment

The finger of the Lord hath done it: death in Colonial America

Beautiful in the last repose: death in the Victorian Age

Sisters in mourning: Mary Todd Lincoln and Queen Victoria

Buried at The side of the road: death in Westering America

Johnny has gone for a soldier: death in Civil War America

That little company of angels: deaths of children in the nineteenth century

II: Memorial art and artifacts

Mourning clothing and ritual

Mourning jewelry

Stuart mourning jewelry

Georgian mourning

Victorian mourning jewelry

Jewelry design

Memorial portraiture: mortuary and posthumous paintings

Memorial photography

Other memorial images

Framed memorials

Hair-work memorials

Framed memorials of other materials

Painted memorials

Embroidered memorials

Berlin and punched paper memorials

Lithographs

Tokens of remembrance

Pottery and glass

Unique memorial objects and artifacts

Paper ephemera

Mourning art among minorities

The death of mourning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 256).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0764319647

9780764319648

OCLC:

53926858