A collection of lace classification [ca. 1906]

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Other

Author/Creator:

Johnstone, Margaret Taylor, -1943

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clarke, Caspar Purdon, Sir, 1846-1911.

Clarke, Caspar Purdon.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Lace and lace making--Classification.

Lace and lace making.

Lace and lace making--New York (State)--New York--Catalogs.

Genre:

Albums (Books)

Catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (139 pages))

Other Title:

Notebook (classification) of lace, [ca. 1906]

Place of Publication:

[ca. 1906]

[New York, N.Y.] Metropolitan Museum of Art

Biography/History:

Margaret Taylor Johnstone is listed in the Annual report of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, between 1907 and 1945, as an Honorary Fellow for Life. Between 1907 and 1924 the Annual report gives her surname as "Johnston;" entries for subsequent years use the form "Johnstone," which is the form used on the legal papers pertaining to her posthumous bequest to the Museum. She died Jan. 14, 1943 in Nice, France. Johnstone was a niece of John Taylor Johnston, first President of the Museum (1870-1889). She made gifts of lace to the Museum, beginning in 1905, and gifts to its library, beginning in 1902. The first version of her lace classification was accepted by the Director of the Museum, Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, in 1906

Summary:

This album is probably the first version of Johnstone's lace classification. It was given a penciled title page when transferred to the Library by the Catalog Department of the Museum, Jan. 21, 1948. The album is organized according to a scheme of 21 classes and various subclasses. Classification designations and descriptions are written in Johnstone's hand on cutout sheets of paper affixed to pages in the album. Autograph, typescript, and printed catalog entries for items acquired by, or on loan to, the Metropolitan Museum of Art are on cutout slips of paper affixed beneath the classification section to which they belong. Some classes are not represented by any catalog entries, and the entries following class XXI B (pages 121-139) are not designated by class

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Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Johnstone, Margaret Taylor, -1943. Collection of lace classification.

OCLC:

1411717271