This volume presents the proceedings of the symposium of the same name held in September 1995 to celebrate the centenary of the National Trust. The papers deal with many specific case-histories in all areas of the conservation of historic textiles including upholstery, embroidery, costumes, curtains, carpets and tapestry. They reveal the ingenuity, skill and care of the conservators who undertake work for the National Trust to preserve the contents of historic country houses. CONTENTS Foreword by Jim France Conservation of Large Miniatures on Ivory Alan Derbyshire The Conservation of Large-Format Works of Art on Paper Jean E. Brown A Crumbling Inheritance: Textiles and the National Trust Martin Drury Textiles on Open Display: The Conservation Issues Nigel Seeley Funding for Conservation: Priorities and Value for Money Andrew Durham A Conflict of Interest? Conservation versus Historic Presentation, a Curatorial View Simon Thurley The Embroidery Exhibition at Hardwick Hall Santina M. Levey Work Undertaken by Volunteers at the National Trust’s Textile Conservation Workrooms at Blickling Hall, Norfolk 1976-86 33 Pamela Clabburn The Role of Housekeeping and Preventive Conservation in the Care of Textiles in Historic Houses Helen Lloyd Felbrigg Hall: An Environmental Conservation Perspective Julie Marsden The Care of the National Trust’s Carriage Collections Christopher Nicholson Two Contrasting Minimally Interventive Upholstery Treatments: Different Roles, Different Treatments Kate Gill and Dinah Eastop The Conservation of Four Chair Covers Matching the State Bed at Dyrham Park Anne van den Berg The Art of Dress: An Introduction to the National Trust’s Costume Collections Jane Ashelford The Costume Collections at Springhill Manor and the Ellen Terry Museum, Smallhythe Place, their Care and Conservation Judith Dore Conservation Traditions at Uppark: Lady Meade-Fetherstonhaugh as a Textile Conservator Christopher Rowell Continuing Conservation Traditions at Uppark: The Conservation of the Saloon Curtains Ksynia Marko The Resurrection of the Uppark State Bed Annabel Wylie and Poppy Singer Erddig Revisited Sheila Landi The Rescue of an Important English Carpet Johnathan Tetley and Sarah Howard The Conservation of Four Tapestries from Hardwick Hall Danielle Bosworth The National Trust Tapestry Collection Tom Campbell Section II Wet Cleaning of the Dining Room Curtains, Uppark House Valerie Davies Wet Cleaning of the Small Drawing Room Curtains, Uppark House Valerie Davies Conservation of Silk Wall Coverings at Arlington Court Fiona Hutton Brodsworth Hall – Drawing Room Pelmets Rachel Langley Blickling Mortlake Tapestry-Adhesive Removal Treatment Melanie Leach The Conservation and Display of Two Painted Colours from Cotehele Frances Lennard The Felbrigg Chairs – An Exercise in Remedial and Preventive Conservation Lynn McClean The Care of Textiles at Ham and Osterley – The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Approach Gillian Owen The Playing Boys Tapestries from Cotehele House: Camouflage Techniques Ann Reynolds The Powis State Coach Hammer Cloth Clare Stoughton-Harris The History of Caesar Tapestries from Powis Castle: the Treatment of Previous Repairs and Alterations Karen Thompson Tassel Terminology Vic Ringwood

For the nature and adventure enthusiast: Roaming America is a visually stunning, ultimately practical guide to visiting the US National Parks.
Combining breathtaking imagery, useful planning information for each national park, suggested itineraries, best-of recommendations, and more Roaming America will give you all the inspiration you could need to plan your next national park road trip! Featured inside:

This important volume, proceedings of a conference held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on 6-9 September 2007, focuses on ancient Egyptian decorated surfaces, from polychrome wood to coloured basketry and from patinated metal to painted textiles. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, this book brings together experts from around the world to explore all aspects of investigation and treatment, as well as broader issues of preservation, storage and display. A comprehensive review of past and current treatments for organic objects is followed by case studies, including innovative solutions to conservation problems, the discovery of an unusual lead cladding on a royal sculpture and the revealing forensic study of a red-shroud mummy. Wide-ranging, authoritative and accessible, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the study and care of ancient Egyptian objects. Contents:
Observations on the preparation layers found on ancient Egyptian decorated coffins in the Michael C. Carlos Museum; Lead cladding on a wooden royal figure: an unusual ancient surface reconstructed; Egyptian colours and pigments in French collections: 30 years of physicochemical analyses on 300 objects; Greener shades of pale: a review of advances in the characterisation of ancient Egyptian green pigments; Patina and polychromy: reconstructing some technical histories for small Egyptian bronze sculpture in the British Museum; Computed tomography and X-radiography of a coffin from Dynasty 21/22; The conservation of decorated organic Egyptian surfaces: a literature review; Selected case studies in the treatment and preservation of Middle Kingdom polychrome wood in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Ancient Egyptian basketry: investigation, conservation and colour; Treatment of a Dynasty 18 painted coffin, 37.47e a-e (Abbott Collection 405a); Roman Egyptian gilded cartonnage: technical study and conservation of a mummy mask from Hawara; Deterioration and damage on encaustic mummy portraits; The conservation treatment of the Roman Egyptian paintings in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; The new life of Crispina: scientific analyses and conservation of an Egyptian painted shroud of the Roman period; Material investigations of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s red-shroud mummy; Emergency stabilisation and removal of the termite-damaged coffins found in Tomb KV-63, Valley of the Kings, Luxor: a memoir presented by Dr Nadia Lokma, General Director of Conservation for Greater Cairo; Issues in the display of ancient Egyptian decorated material.

One of the most renowned and distinctive museum buildings in Poland, the National Museum in Szczecin is the largest cultural institution in Western Pomerania. It holds over 150,000 objects divided among its five branches, which include museums dedicated to contemporary art, Szczecin’s history and regional traditions. The National Museum itself holds Poland’s largest collection of artefacts from outside Europe, shedding light on the cultures of Africa, the Americas and Oceania. However, its main focus is on the history of the Pomeranian and Baltic regions and how this has in turn shaped their national identity. Published to mark the reopening of the permanent collection in 2020, in this book Director Lech Karwowski introduces readers to the art and artefacts, both ancient and modern, that constitute his highlights from the collection.

Since the practical invention of photography in the 1840s, Scotland has been at the centre of the history and development of the medium. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery – which houses the Scottish National Photography Collection – and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, hold outstanding collections of photographic art spanning three centuries. Included are figures such as D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Annan, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Capa, Bill Brandt, Annie Leibovitz and Andreas Gursky. This book offers a detailed guide to the collections as well as an accessible and informative introduction to photography. This revised edition includes recently commissioned photography and significant new acquisitions, with works by Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe.

This book highlights 55 outstanding masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland, which were founded in 1850. The works range in date from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and include many of the most famous names in the history of Western art. Artists represented include Botticelli, El Greco, Velàzquez, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Watteau, Monet, Degas, Sargent, Picasso and Braque. In addition, the major figures of the national school, Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie, lend a distinctly Scottish flavor to this exceptional selection. All of the paintings are fully illustrated and described in this catalogue authored by the curatorial staff of the Galleries. Michael Clarke, director of the Scottish National Gallery, gives a unique insight into the history of the National Galleries of Scotland as he discusses the development of the Scottish national collection over the last 150 years.

This volume reveals the roles of foreign and Indian Jews in the Indian national art project and raises issues such as: Is an “Indian artist” any artist born into an Indian family? What role can foreigners and members of Indian minority groups play in the Indian National Art Project as scholars, critics, or artists? Is a piece of work “Indian art” because of its subject matter or its style? Is it possible to utilize “foreign techniques” in creating “Indian art”? Jews and the Indian National Art Project documents the work of artists such as Anna Molka Ahmed, Mirra Alfassa (The Mother), Siona Benjamin, Carmel Berkson, and Fredda Brilliant as well as those of photographers (David Mordecai and Man Ray) and architects (Otto Königsberger, Moshe Safdie). Also covered in this volume are the work of critics, scholars and art patrons like Ernst Cohn-Wiener, Charles Fabri, Stella Kramrisch, and Marion Harry Spielmann.
• Chronicles the substantial role played by Jews in the shaping and development of contemporary Indian art and aesthetics• Contains images of lost paintings of Fyzee Rahamin and Magda Nachman, and other never-before-seen paintings• Written in an unbiased manner and supported with in-depth research, the book will be invaluable to anyone who wishes to understand contemporary Indian artThis volume reveals the roles of foreign and Indian Jews in the Indian national art project and raises issues such as: Is an “Indian artist” any artist born into an Indian family? What role can foreigners and members of Indian minority groups play in the Indian National Art Project as scholars, critics, or artists? Is a piece of work “Indian art” because of its subject matter or its style? Is it possible to utilize “foreign techniques” in creating “Indian art”?Jews and the Indian National Art Project documents the work of artists such as Anna Molka Ahmed, Mirra Alfassa (The Mother), Siona Benjamin, Carmel Berkson, and Fredda Brilliant as well as those of photographers (David Mordecai and Man Ray) and architects (Otto Königsberger, Moshe Safdie). Also covered in this volume are the work of critics, scholars and art patrons like Ernst Cohn-Wiener, Charles Fabri, Stella Kramrisch, and Marion Harry Spielmann.

Collaborative and trans-disciplinary artist Antje Majewski (born 1968 in Marl, Germany) has opened an ongoing dialogue with colleagues from Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, France, Hungary, Poland, and Senegal, and invited them to contribute works exploring the reciprocal relationships between human and beyond-human beings in a poetic way. This book stems from this conversation between the participating artists and their interactions with others. The project and its title emerged from a conversation between Senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright and poet Issa Samb and Antje Majewski under the trees in his courtyard in Dakar. Sadly, both Issa Samb and the trees are gone today, but the discussion set a process, a laboratory in motion. It was the start of meetings, travels, and conversations between Majewski and the invited artists. How to talk with birds, trees, fish, shells, snakes, bulls and lions takes artists’ interactions with endangered places, societies and environments as points of departure. The presented works often focus on specific places that have been destroyed, altered, or are seriously imperilled by encroaching capitalism, colonialism, and other detrimental human influences. Videos, large-scale installations, sculptures, manifestos, poems, photographs, drawings, and paintings address delicate socio-ecological systems, of which human beings are always a part. The artists speak from personal positions of dissidence to today’s dominant modes of interaction with the environment – whether feminist, decolonizing, situational, and by proposing radically non-capitalist ways of interacting with humans, other living beings, and matter.

Text in English and German.

This book covers the latest research in the field of ancient Asian metal-working in South and Southeast Asia, China and West Asia, concentrating mainly on copper alloys. The papers presented in this volume are authored by leading international experts in archaeometallurgy who gathered in Washington D.C. to celebrate one of the Freer Gallery’s earliest technical research topics – the study of ancient Chinese bronzes and other copper-alloy metalwork from Asia. Early casting techniques and technical studies of bronzes in China, Thailand and Vietnam are joined by investigations into ten millennia of metallurgy in the Middle East. Contents:
Introduction Reflections on R. J. Gettens and the Technical Studies of Chinese Bronzes:
A Chemist Under a Spell: Rutherford John Gettens s Early Encounters with Chinese Bronzes Francesca G. BEWER; The Making of Volume 2 of the Freer Chinese Bronze Book W. T. CHASE; Theories and Observations: Still Looking at the Freer Bronzes
Robert BAGLEY Chinese Bronzes:
Recent Research on Early Bronze Metallurgy in Northwest China MEI Jianjun, XU Jianwei, CHEN Kunlong, SHEN Lu, and WANG Hui; Recent Discoveries Concerning Metallurgy in Bronze Age Yunnan JIN Zhengyao, LI Gong, WANG Haigang, TIAN Jianhua, YAN Lifeng, and JIANG Zhilong Some Decorative Techniques and Corrosion on Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the Cotsen Collection David A. SCOTT; Technical Studies of Three Gui Vessels of the Early Western Zhou Period in the British Museum Collection WANG Quanyu; An Enlightened Journey: Transitions in Casting of Chinese Buddhist Images Donna STRAHAN Southeast Asian Bronzes:
Looking East: The Coming of Tin Bronze in the Context of Bronze Age Trans-Eurasian Exchange – An Overview Vincent C. PIGOTT; The High-tin Bronzes of Thailand Ian GLOVER and Anna BENNETT; A Flux that Binds? The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project Thomas Oliver PRYCE; Khmer Bronze Metallurgy during the Angkorian Period (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries): Technical Investigation of a New Selected Corpus of Artifacts from the National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh Brice VINCENT, David BOURGARIT, and Paul JETT; Casting of Ancient Drums in North Vietnam TRINH Sinh. West Asian Copper Alloys:
Ten Millennia of Metallurgy in Western Asia Paul T. CRADDOCK; Copper-Zinc Alloys at Nuzi: Dilemmas from an Early Excavation Katherine EREMIN, Susanna KIRK, Andrew SHORTLAND and Megan RICHTERS; Reconstructing Ancient Technologies: Chalcolithic Crucible Smelting at Tal-i Iblis, Iran Lesley D. FRAME; Metallurgy during the Middle Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Caucasus: Insight through Recent Discoveries at Mentesh-Tepe, Azerbaijan Antoine COURCIER, Farhad GULIYEV and Bertille LYONNET; The Casting Techniques of Antique South Arabian Large Bronze Statues Benoît MILLE; Medieval Islamic Copper Alloys Susan LA NIECE, Rachel WARD, Duncan HOOK and Paul CRADDOCK.

The Swiss National Museum is Switzerland’s most frequently visited museum of cultural history. At its three sites in Zurich, Prangins and Schwyz, it presents Swiss identities from prehistory to the twenty-first century. At its Collection Centre, it preserves over 870,000 items and works of art as well as several million photographs for future generations.
This new addition to Scala’s Director’s Choice series celebrates the museum’s 125th anniversary, showcasing stunning new photography of some of the museums’ finest objects, a selection that has been expertly compiled by Denise Tonella, the museum’s director.

The National Galleries of Scotland comprises three galleries: the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Gallery. Together these galleries house one of the finest collections of art to be found anywhere in the world, ranging from the thirteenth century to the present day. Many of the greatest names in Western art are represented by major works, from Titian, Rembrandt and Vermeer through to Picasso, Hockney and Warhol. This lavishly illustrated book contains one hundred of the National Galleries of Scotland s greatest and best-loved treasures. The selection made by the Director-General Sir John Leighton is intended to evoke the special character of the collection at the National Galleries with its distinctive interplay between Scottish and international art as well as the many conversations that it establishes between the art of the past and the present.

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, part of the National Galleries of Scotland, provides a unique visual history of Scotland, told through portraits of the figures who shaped it: royals and rebels, poets and philosophers, heroes and villains. The Gallery is home to Scotland’s collection of portrait miniatures which date from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day.
This book illustrates a selection of works by key miniaturists and features portraits of many important Scottish historical figures such as James Hepburn 4th Earl of Bothwell, the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, James VI and I and Robert Burns who was depicted in the last year of his life. A complete list of all the works in the collection is also included.

The collections of the Timişoara National Museum of Art trace their origins to the original Banat Museum founded in 1872 by Zsigmond Ormós, a great scholar and collector of the time.

In 2006 Timişoara National Museum of Art was officially opened in its current form, housed in the splendid Baroque Palace on the city’s Union Square. Its collections include important works by Romanian master painter Corneliu Baba, an impressive contemporary art collection, decorative arts, and collections of Banatian, Romanian and European art from the 17th to the 20th century.

In recognition of its status as one of the country’s finest art museums, in December 2020 it was designated a Museum of National Importance. The Museum will be a key visitor attraction during Timişoara’s year as European Capital of Culture in 2023.

Other titles by Director Victor Neumann – The Banat of Timişoara, The Temptation of Homo Europaeus, and Kin, People or Nation?

More than any other civilization, China is renowned for its long tradition of ceramic production, from its terracotta and stoneware works in ancient times to the imperial porcelain manufactured at Jingdezhen from the end of the fourteenth century. These works have been admired and collected over centuries for their outstanding quality and refinement. Now two hundred masterpieces from prominent private collections around the world have been brought together for the first time in a new book. The Baur Collections in Geneva, formed between 1928 and 1951, and the Zhuyuetang Collection (the Bamboo and Moon Pavilion in Hong Kong), which has been building since the late 1980s, reveal the elegance and variety of imperial monochrome porcelain wares produced during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, which followed on from the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) periods. These restrained pieces – both profane and sacred – exemplify the values of simplicity and modesty espoused by classical Chinese texts. With chapters devoted to the historical, cultural and technical contexts in which these pieces were made, this book will be a key reference on Chinese monochrome ceramics for all lovers of the subject, as well as students, researchers and connoisseurs.

Text in English and French with Chinese summaries.

This beautiful coloring and drawing book contains intricate illustrations, decorative details and a fabulous fold-out map. This is the perfect starting point for your art adventure around the National Galleries of Scotland. Color in the buildings, draw your favorite artworks and add your friends and family into your pictures.

Scotland has produced an astonishingly high number of men and women whose lives have inspired and changed the world. This book, illustrating just over forty portraits, represents only a few of them, but with Robert Burns and Walter Scott, Eric Liddell and Alex Ferguson, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Queen Victoria, it represents the flavour of the collection at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

This is the exceptionally rich story of Rembrandt’s fame and influence in Britain. No other nation has witnessed such a passionate – and sometimes eccentric – enthusiam for Rembrandt’s works. His imagery has become ubiquitous, making him one of the most recognised artists in history. In this book, some of the world’s leading experts reveal how the taste for Rembrandt’s paintings, drawings and prints evolved, growing into a mania that gripped collectors and art lovers across the country. This reached a fever pitch in the late 1700s, before the dawn of a new century ushered in a re-evaluation of Rembrandt’s reputation and opportunities for the wider public to see his masterpieces for themselves.

The story of Rembrandt’s profound and inspirational impact on the British imagination is illustrated by over 130 sumptuous works by the master himself, as well as by some of Britain’s best-loved artists, including William Hogarth, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Eduardo Paolozzi and John Bellany.

Foreword; Introduction; 1 Rembrandt’s Fame in Britain, 1630 1900: An Overview- Christian Tico Seifert; 2 Rembrandt and Britain: The Modern Era – Patrick Elliott; 3 ‘The Finest Possible State’: Cataloguing and Collecting Rembrandt’s Prints, c.1700 1840 – Stephanie S. Dickey; 4 From Studio to Academy: Copying Rembrandt in Eighteenth-century Britain – Jonathan Yarker; 5 Regarding Rembrandt: Reynolds and Rembrandt – Donato Esposito; 6 Rembrandt: Paragon of the Etching Revival – Peter Black; 7 Rembrandt and Britain: A ‘Picture Flight’ in Three Stages, 1850 1930 – M.J. Ripps; Catalogue; Bibliography.

This field guide is the result of the author’s intense study of the flora of the southern western ghats as well as those of Palni hills for several years. The book lists more than 200 species of trees, herbs, and shrubs, that can be found in the region. The author names the genus, the species, the short name of the botanist who classified the plant, and the family name of the plant, in all the cases. She also takes great pains to provide the common English names as well as the local names of the species in various regional languages of India. Not only is the distribution of the species in various parts of the world explained, but the author also gives a physical description of the species, including its leaves, flowers, and fruits. Medicinal as well as general uses of any part or parts of the plant is also explained in most cases. The author, however, warns the reader that use of any species for medicinal purposes must be preceded by doctoral advice.

Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Trees; Shrubs; Herbs; Line Drawings; Glossary; Bibliography; Indices – Trees, Shrubs, Herbs; Index.
• An extremely useful field guide for general readers and nature lovers
• This book provides a list of more than 200 species of trees, herbs, and shrubs that can be found in the region, accompanied by over 400 color images

This field guide is the result of the author’s intense study of the flora of the southern western Ghats as well as those of Palni hills for several years. The book lists more than 200 species of trees, herbs, and shrubs that can be found in the region. The author names the genus, the species, the short name of the botanist who classified the plant, and the family name of the plant, in all the cases. She also takes great pains to provide the common English names as well as the local names of the species in various regional languages of India. Not only is the distribution of the species in various parts of the world explained, but the author also gives a physical description of the species, including its leaves, flowers, and fruits. Medicinal as well as general uses of any part or parts of the plant is also explained in most cases. The author, however, warns the reader that use of any species for medicinal purposes must be preceded by doctoral advice.

Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Trees; Shrubs; Herbs; Line Drawings; Glossary; Bibliography; Indices – Trees, Shrubs, Herbs; Index.

The restoration of Stowe House and development of the surrounding estate by Stowe School, allied to work in the landscape gardens by the National Trust, is one of the greatest rescues of a country house ever achieved. The ancestral home of the Temple-Grenvilles came close to demolition in 1920, when the entire site was put up for sale. The formation of Stowe School in 1923 secured a future use that maintained the traditions of the Enlightenment with its unrelenting quest for knowledge and understanding. The past 94 years have seen innovation in land management with the gifting of the gardens to the National Trust and a renovation programme of truly monumental proportions. This major new work details the architectural history of the site, tells the story of the restoration through the words of those most closely involved and demonstrates how the School has continued to build in a sympathetic and harmonious manner that preserves the identity and character of the estate as a whole.

Contents:
Foreword – Andrew Fane; Introduction – John Darlington
Chapter 1: ‘A Work to wonder at – perhaps a Stow’: the significance of the ‘superb mansion’ at Stowe – Jeremy Musson
Chapter 2: The Architectural Development of Stowe House – Michael Bevington
Chapter 3: Restoration – Restoring Magnificence – Nick Morris; The Architect’s View – Jane Kennedy; Plaster and Statues – Trevor Proudfoot; Metalwork – Rupert Harris; Research Decorative Schemes – Patrick Baty; Textile Recreations for the Blue Room – Annabel Westman; Lighting – John Darlington; The Egyptian Hall – John Maddison; The Discovery of the Baroque Wall Paintings on the East Staircase – Rhiannon Clarricoates; The Temple-Grenvilles as Collectors – Anna McEvoy
Chapter 4: Stowe Architecture since 2000 – Anthony Wallersteiner
Notes

The Ashmolean Museum is fortunate in having the most comprehensive British collection of the art of the Indian subcontinent outside London. Especially strong in sculpture, this rich representation of Indian art from prehistory to the twentieth century has come about through the generosity of our benefactors over more than three centuries. The Museum’s first major Indian sculpture acquisition, a stone Pala-style Vishnu image of the eleventh century, was given in 1686 by Sir William Hedges, a governor of the East India Company in Bengal. From the late nineteenth century, a substantial core of the present collection was assembled at the University’s former Indian Institute Museum (1897-1962), precursor of the Department of Eastern Art, which opened within the Ashmolean in 1963. Since that date many more Indian objects of all periods have been acquired by gift, bequest or purchase.

Contents: Introduction; Prehistoric South Asia; The Northwest; North & Central India; Eastern India and Deccan; Miscellanea; Bibliography.

Our Albert Racinet Ancient Egypt art is a nod to vintage art and design that helped influence Art Deco of the early 20th century.

Albert-Charles-Auguste-Racinet (1825-1893) was a French costume historian, painter, illustrator, and author. Racinet’s publication L’Ornement Polychrome is a monumental collection of more than 100 richly-colored lithographic plates depicting decorative artwork from ancient civilizations through the 18th century.

• Standard deck of 54 playing cards including 2x joker cards
• Full-color, richly-printed artwork on embossed, blue-core card stock
• Giftable flip-top box with magnetic closure
• Box measures: 3.75 x 2.75 x 1″

Our Albert Racinet Ancient Egypt art is a nod to vintage art and design that helped influence Art Deco of the early 20th century.

Albert-Charles-Auguste-Racinet (1825-1893) was a French costume historian, painter, illustrator, and author. Racinet’s publication L’Ornement Polychrome is a monumental collection of more than 100 richly-colored lithographic plates depicting decorative artwork from ancient civilizations through the 18th century.

• 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4 images.
• Packaged in a sleek, sturdy flip-top box with magnetic closure.
• Cards printed on coated paper stock to bring out their full color.
• Cards and envelopes bundled together with a paper belly band inside each box.
• Box measurements 5 5/8 x 4 3/4 x 1 3/8″ in.