Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352396
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352396
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Perfect Likeness
Author: Cincinnati Art MuseumPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300115806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewelry, fashion, hairstyles, and the decorative arts. Unlike many other genres, miniatures have a tradition in which amateurs and professionals have operated in parallel and women artists have flourished as professionals. This richly illustrated book presents approximately 180 portrait miniatures selected from the holdings of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the largest and most diverse collection of its kind in North America. The book stresses the continuity of stylistic tradition across Europe and America as well as the vitality of the portrait miniature format through more than four centuries. A detailed catalogue entry, as well as a concise artist biography, appears for each object. Essays examine various aspects of miniature painting, of the depiction of costume in miniatures, and of the allied art of hair work.
Bulletin
Author: Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, College
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Date with the Hangman
Author: Gary DobbsPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526747448
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A true-crime history of 20th-century, British judicial hangings from 1900 to 1964, and a look at the overall history of executions in Great Britain. It is a sobering thought that until the closing years of the twentieth century, Britain’s courts were technically able to impose the death penalty for several offenses, both civil and military. Although the last judicial hangings took place in 1964, the death penalty, in theory at least, remained for a number of crimes. During the twentieth century, 865 people were executed in Britain. This book examines each and every one of those executions, and in many cases highlights the crimes that brought these men and women to the gallows. The book also details the various forms of capital punishment used throughout British history. During past centuries people were burned at the stake, had the skin flayed from their bodies, were beheaded, garroted, hung, drawn and quartered, stoned, disemboweled, buried alive—and all under the guidance of a vengeful law, or at least what passed for law at any given period. The author, Gary M. Dobbs, has painstakingly collected together every available piece of evidence to provide as clear a picture as possible of a time when the law operated on the principle of an eye for an eye. Dobbs is a true-crime historian and has spent many hours researching the cases featured herein to bring the reader a definitive history of judicial punishment during the twentieth century, and this carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of history. “A brilliant read.” —Books Monthly (UK)
The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania, who Held Office Between 1733-1776
Author: Charles Penrose KeithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Gentle Ben
Author: Walt MoreyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142405515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his brother. But Mark finds a friend named Ben, who happens to be an Alaskan brown bear. Ben and Mark form a special bond, but the townspeople are determined to destroy it. It is only through the strength of an enduring friendship that Ben—and Mark—have a chance of being saved.
The Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania who Held Office Between 1733-1776, and Those Earlier Councillors who Were Some Time Chief Magistrates of the Province, and Their Descendants
Author: Charles Penrose KeithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
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