Catalogue of the loan exhibition in aid of the Society of Decorative Art [electronic resource] : consisting of gems of the modern, foreign and American schools of painting and rare examples of various art industries
An 1877 exhibition catalogue issued in New York by the Society of Decorative Art with the National Academy of Design, listing loaned paintings and art-industry objects for city patrons and buyers. The plates are small engraved award medals from the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, seated allegorical figures in wreathed roundels, ruled advertising panels and scrolling corner ornaments usable as frames, seals and rules.
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