Worldly goods
Subtitle: the arts of early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758
By: Jack L. Lindsey ; with essays by Richard S. Dunn, Edward C. Carter II, and Richard Saunders.
Contributors: Dunn, Richard S.; Carter, Edward Carlos, 1928-; Saunders, Richard H.,; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Art, American -- Pennsylvania -- Exhibitions.; Art, Colonial -- Pennsylvania -- Exhibitions.; Art, American -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Exhibitions.; Art, Colonial -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "The more than five hundred objects featured in this catalogue - including furniture, silver and other metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, Native American artifacts, paintings, works on paper, and manuscripts - bear ample witness to the styles and aesthetics of early Pennsylvania and illustrate the rapid advances that took place in the colony during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, not only in the arts but also in commerce, technology, scientific inquiry, and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.