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 92
nd concave curves, andX-shaped stretchers, especially for upholstered furniture,are now introduced. In the early days, the legs of furniture, especially ofchairs, ended in straight feet, with the stretchers high fromthe floor to keep them above the dampness or out of thestraw or rushes. Now we find… … INTRODUCTION Chests with drawers, which we have already noted,now show their complete development into the chests ofdrawers, which, following a fashion common in Hollandparticularly, are raised on legs, here of a cup-shaped turning,typically Portuguese, with flat, waved or X-shaped stretchers(No. i…
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909 · Painting, Dutch · Art objects
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