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American painted furniture, 1660-1880 / Dean A. Fales, Jr. ; Robert Bishop, illus. and design editor ; Cyril I. Nelson, general editor.
LIBRA NK2406 .F3 1979
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fales, Dean A., Jr., 1925-1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Furniture--United States.
- Furniture.
- United States.
- Decoration and ornament--United States.
- Decoration and ornament.
- Penn Provenance:
- Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott
- Physical Description:
- 299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- [First paperback edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton, 1979.
- Contents:
- Early colonial : the seventeenth century ; up the Connecticut River ; along the Connecticut shore ; the eighteenth century ; the legacy of Nieu Netherland ; patterns and plain paints
- Late colonial : Japaning ; Queen Anne and Chippendale ; early Windsors
- Federal : federal furniture ; painting on glass ; fancy furniture
- American empire
- Nineteenth century : Academy painting ; Hitchcocks ; pillars and scrolls ; paint for paint's sake ; later Windsors
- Cultural patterns : Shaker furniture ; Pennsylvania German furniture
- Victorian.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293).
- Includes indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fales, Dean A. American painted furniture, 1660-1880.
- ISBN:
- 0525475494
- 9780525475491
- OCLC:
- 5216125
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