The Hudson-Fulton celebration. Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; commemorative of the tercentenary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in the year 1609, and the centenary of the first use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton in the year 1807 (1909)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958, Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948, Levy, Florence N. (Florence Nightingale), 1870-1947 · New York · leaf 85
y of chair (No. 55), of North Euro-pean origin, came into the Colonies with the wainscot type,and it was from it that our earliest form of home-madechairs was evolved. Several well-known examples of the very heavy turnedchairs, undoubtedly imported, exist, but they were notcopied to any extent and… … INTRODUCTION prototype of a style which may be said to be American,although common also in rural England. Upholstered chairs were uncommon with our forefathers,although they had been introduced into England fromFrance in the reigns of Charles II and James II, and evenduring the Protectorate a stiff…
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909 · Painting, Dutch · Art objects
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