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 Additionally, several of the hitherto-unpublished objects relate to others already in the decorative and fine arts lexicon.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- 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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- „... fell out of use in the early nineteenth century. Daniel Corbit’s interest in William’s furnishings ...” „... revival of the late nineteenth century. Delaware historians Henry F. Hepburn and Henry C. Conrad, writing ...” „... early twentieth century on other Corbit furniture by Mary Corbit Warner, founder of The David Wilson ...”
- „... and why so many eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Odessa artifacts survived with illuminating ...” „... assume greater roles and meaning in the larger pictures of early life. All of these questions and ...” „... Salem, Massachusetts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art pioneered the period room in 1907 and 1924 ...”
- „... soon after completing his apprenticeship. By the opening years of the nineteenth century, many other ...” „... , also destroyed in the fire, given to the Lodge in the late nineteenth century by Richard T. Lockwood ...” „... artisan life throughout the American colo-nies and early nation as well as details of furniture history ...”
- „... an ever-searching effort to identify and study early Delaware artifacts.In going through some old ...” „... nineteenth-century life in southern New Castle County, Delaware. Historic Odessa had something to offer that was not ...” „... Production: 4x3, LLCAmy Siano, Creative Director; Gregg Whitlock, Art Director, Michael Spangler, Art ...”
- „... creating an even more comprehensive and intimate picture of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- century ...” „... on other furniture in the late nineteenth century (discussed below) raises the question of who was ...” „... of the American antiquarian movement that flourished in the late nine-teenth and early twentieth ...”