The Magazine Antiques: The American Museum in Britain
Reference Number
PP/1235
Level of Description
Item
Title
The Magazine Antiques: The American Museum in Britain
Creator(s) & Administrative History
Various: Author
Date
March 1993
Extent
Pages: 14
Description
This March 1993 issue of Antiques Magazine is devoted entirely to The American Museum at Claverton Manor, Bath and contains the following articles with photographs: Introduction by William McNaught, pp. 406-407; Domestic settings (description of the rooms and its refurbishment into American-style interiors) by John Huitson, pp. 408-420; Folk Art by James Ayre (the museum's collection of American Folk Art); The textile collection by Sheila Betterton (inlcudes quilts, carpets and samplers), pp. 428-435; Visions of heaven on earth by John Huitson (reconstruction of a livng room in an adobe house that once belonged to a nineteenth-century Spanish colonist in New Mexico, items associated with the religious beliefs of the Pennsylvania-Germans and those associated with Shakerism, pp. 436-441; The furniture by Sarah Nichols (the largest and most comprehensive group of pre-1855 American furniture easily accessible to the public outside the United States), pp. 442-455; The ceramics by Judith Elsdon, pp. 456-461; The Dallas Pratt Map Collection by Rodney W. Shirley, pp. 462-469
