Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-04-21
THE RICHMOND DfspArcH-wEDN EsDAY. APRIL p: 1897
THE COMING LOAN EXHIBITION.
success of This Unique, Historian,
md Artistic Display.

and Artistic Display.
The exhibition OF objects Of antiquarian
ssd artistic interest which Old Dominion
d<opier. Daughters. OF the American
| H1olution. is to hold during the week
following the Goth instant Is growing 70
great proportions and Is now assured Oh
success.
The catalogue. which Is now well under
| way. and which as II goes INTO con-
siderable detail In describing all the oo-
Iccts exhibited. will be well worth pre-
serving. shows that the display VIII far
exceed anything Of the sort ever attempt
cd here before. The portraits in oil num-
Der more than hundred, and GATE from
before l649 20 within the past nlty years
and include governors. judges, congress
men, and others prominent in puplc Lie
while those of personages or less note are
| of much interest from the fact that so
many members OF families prominent III
the Colonial period are represented. NJ
merous descendants will be glad 10 see
pictures OF ancestors they nave never
had n chance TO examine before. con-
siderable. number of the beautiful chaih
profles by st. Merra will be shown, TO-
Il *
| graved portraits Many of the quaint
silhouettes will also be hung in the rooms
and other examples OF Virginia portraiture
| i'm the Colonial period. which, from the
! distant residence of the owners. could
| not be obtained Will be shown in pho-
/ tographIc copies. a large and beautiful
| collection OF miniatures has been obtain
ed. and will be one OF the features or the
exhibition.
Two rooms will be devoted TO arms
armour and India relies. collected and
artistically arranged by Mrs. stephen
Putney. It is. of course. known In
general way that there are some good
India collections in this vicinity, but sur
prise will be excited at the extent of those
loaned, and especially will the visitor be
struck by the great variety and interest
OF the arms of many nations and ages,
which have been gathered together.
IL Is not practicable to give in small
space any adequate idea of the beauty
and value of the collection OF china
glass, silver, laces. embroideries. dresses
&c. OF especial interest to the ladies
will be several figures dressed in genuine
Colonial costumes. The articles in the
classes mentioned are fast being cata-
logued, and will receive fuller notice
later
The department of manuscripts and au-
tographs is now about full. aDi is OF
great value. The resolutions Of 1865; Pa
trick Henry's autograph; the "Westmore-
land Resolutions" OF 1905 with more than
a hundred autograph signatures of the
leading men OF the northern part OF Nir-
gina az that time; letters from Washing
ton. Jefferson. Madison, and Monroe; GER
tfcates Of membership in the Cincinnati;
Colonial and Revolutionary commissions
and deeds; letters Of English and Ameri-
can literary men, and numerous others
10 the number Of several hundred. will
make the best collection of autographs
ever seen in Richmond. The person with
the book-plate craze will find numerous
examples of his fayorite subject of col
lection.
Two rooms will be hung entirely with
valuable paintings and engrayings (other
than of antiquarian and historical in
teresD. and furnished with comfortable
chairs or lounges, will not only be IA
vorite places for those OF artistic taste 10
linger. but will doubtless attract those
who come to the exhibition chiefly as a
social pleasure. A social pleasure and
event il is sure 10 be. Every afternoon
about 5 o'clock a number OF young ladies
will be on hand to serve tea and light re-
freshments to all corners, and the last
night an entertainment of some sort will
be given; on one afternoon and one eve
ming the children will have a Martha
Washington tea; on another there will
be a stereopticon exhibition Of views Of
old Virginia houses and churches; on
another a number OF charming old unpub-
lished letters will be read, and on a
fourth there will be a little talk about
some of the portraits and painters rep
resented. Good music will be another at
traction throughout the week. II IL safe
TO say that from the start it will be as
much the thing TO go TO the Loan Exhibl-
ton as it was last year when the con-
certs commenced for everybody to go to
the Jefferson.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton deserve great credit for their pa
triotic desire TO aid the cause of the his
tory of our State, and are to be con-
graduated on the way in which they
have accomplished the arduous task OF
bringing together collection of things
which will astonish the public by its size,
interest, and beauty.