Zusammenfassung
A Storied Past: Collections of the Historic Odessa captures the historical character and significance of two important late-18th-century houses, each of which retains a high percentage of original furnishings and locally made objects. Over the past several years, the collections have undergone careful examination and interpretation. One hundred are published along with four interpretive chapters. Relatively few historic sites have received this level of investigative treatment. Additionally, several of the hitherto-unpublished objects relate to others already in the decorative and fine arts lexicon.
Using rich archival and genealogical sources, Philip D. Zimmerman brings to light here for the first time an extraordinary array of decorative and fine arts from the collections at the Historic Odessa Foundation. This well-documented group of family objects provides an intimate glimpse into the daily life of members of the Corbit and Wilson families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and also sheds light on the history of Odessa, Delaware, and the larger region. Particularly strong holdings of furniture made by John Janvier and his talented sons and nephew allow informative contrasts with products made in Delaware, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Needlework and other textiles made by Corbit and Wilson women characterize their handiwork. Other objects tell other stories. Some, labeled by their nineteenth-century owners for posterity, document evolving trends in early collecting and historic preservation. The richly illustrated book includes more than 200 photographs, including many details and historic images, along with careful physical descriptions and historical documentation. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, A Storied Past illuminates a wealth of furnishings, works of art, and artifacts with common provenances and interlocking histories and places them into the artistic, social, and historical contexts of their time.
The collections documented here furnish the Corbit-Sharp (1774) and Wilson-Warner (1769) houses, built on adjoining lots by a tanner and a merchant and now maintained by the Historic Odessa Foundation. Subsequent generations valued and preserved the two houses and many furnishings. The Wilson house opened in 1923 as the first historic house museum in Delaware. The Corbit house remained in family hands until H. Rodney Sharp bought it in 1938 to preserve it. Furniture owned in the family of John Janvier, the noted cabinetmaker in Odessa, was added in the 1970s, and the Foundation has continued to acquire Corbit and Wilson family furnishings as well as locally made furniture in the years since.
Those interested in historic houses and late 18th and early 19th century life, American antique collectors (especially of furniture), and those with local interests will find this book interesting.
Schlagworte
Fine Arts Odessa Foundation Wilson family antique collectors American antiques Corbit family gift for art lovers late eighteenth-century art early nineteenth-century art- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 1–11 Forewords 1–11
- 12–12 Acknowledgments 12–12
- 13–14 Introduction 13–14
- 55–260 The Collection 55–260
- 261–261 Concordance 261–261
- 264–265 Short Title Bibliography 264–265
- 266–266 Photo Credits 266–266
- 267–270 Index 267–270
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- „... , Wilson-Warner- Corbit Family Papers, Col. 35, Series II: Wilson papers, box 1, folder 29, DMPEC, Winterthur.4 ...” „... , no. 84 x 150; Wilson-Warner-Corbit Family Papers, Col. 35, Series III: Corbit-Warner papers, box 3 ...” „... , Wilson-Warner-Corbit Family Papers, Col. 35, Series II: Wilson papers, box 1, folder 10, DMPEC, Winterthur.ever-scarce ...”
- „... leadership, served as a beacon for the Corbit family.Daniel’s greatest contribution to the preservation of ...” „... ) acquired the house and land from the family.Sharp was no stranger to the Corbit house or to Odessa. Born in ...” „... Cowgill names in Delaware are numerous, as are given names of Joshua and John. However, Corbit’s family ...”
- „... . 10) that descended in the Corbit family.Fig. 35. Detail of the back corner showing through-tenon ...” „... Corbit family. Daniel Corbit recorded a history of it on a leather tag, which he dated February 14, 1833 ...” „... married back into the Corbit family. Mary and Daniel Wheeler Corbit had two daughters, one of whom was ...”
- „... quilts and quiltingCowgill, John and family, 43Cowgill (Corbit), Mary, 30, 43, 44, 126–7, 200, 202–3, 223 ...” „... , Joshua and family, 43, 58–9clocks tall clocks, 32, 33, 39–41, 71–2, 85–6 clock-case making, 35–6, 72 ...” „... Cooper, James Fenimore, 136Corbit, Daniel (1682–1756), 27Corbit, Daniel (1715–1774), 27, 64Corbit, Daniel ...”
- „... ChristopherWeaver,workedwithJohnJanvier.Mary Brinton (1708–1774): Wife of Daniel Corbit.Daniel Corbit (1682–1756): Married Mary Brinton in ...” „... 1739, father of William Corbit.DanielCorbit(1796–1877):Solesurvivingsonof William Corbit and owner of ...” „... the Corbit-Sharp House; married Eliza Naudain in 1833 and Mary Corbit Wilson in 1847.Daniel Wheeler ...”
- „... origin along with many papers and accounts of the Corbit family.Soon after ownership transfers to ...” „... houses, filled the Wilson house, which she owned, with Wilson and Corbit family furnishings along with ...” „... objects of local manufacture, as well as a wealth of Corbit and Wilson family owned possessions that ...”
- „... Cabinetmaker.” Antiquarian(November1930): 64–67, 106.Hotchkiss, Horace L., Jr. “The Corbit-Sharp Family Circle ...” „... Winterthur Museum, 1964. (Hotchkiss, “Corbit-Sharp Family Circle”)Hotchkiss, Horace L., Jr. “Odessa ...” „... Family”)deValinger,Leon,Jr.“JohnJanvier,DelawareCabinet-maker.” Antiques 41, no. 1 (January 1942): 37–39.Dorman, Charles G. “Distinctly Delaware: Another Look ...”
- „... French-born Thomas, who may have been a carpenter, was the patriarch of the large Janvier family in America.3 ...” „... many other details of his life, but his wife and her family may have been a significant source for ...” „... Delaware and Philadelphia. These several Janvi-er-family branches were populated by many Thomases, Johns ...”