The publication of Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife makes available a record which both affords unique visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the volume's 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings.
The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A comprehensive chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. All important information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations.
The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. Andrew Oliver, in his detailed and lively discussions of each likeness, makes full use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves. The volume continues the record of Adams family portraiture begun with Portraits of John and Abigail Adams. The two volumes together constitute Series IV of the distinguished Adams Papers publications.

Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife (Adams Papers)

Biographies & Memoirs

Oliver, Andrew

Historical

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

The Portraits of John Marshall

University Press of Virginia

This volume in the Cyrene series contains sections on the assorted small finds (bronzes, iron, etc.), the glass, and the faunal remains. All add interesting information into the uses and ritual practices at the Sanctuary.University Museum Monograph, 67

The Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, Final Reports IV: The Small Finds, the Glass, the Faunal Analysis

Arts & Photography

Crabtree, Pamela

Warden, P. Gregory

Monge, Janet

History & Criticism

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Portraits in the Massachusetts Historical Society

Reference

Massachusetts Historical Society

When a rocking horse becomes real and darts into the woods with Robbie along for the ride, ten-year old Martha is befriended by a scarecrow who helps her find her brother.

Beyond the Enchanted Bridge: A Visit to Scarecrow Land

Literature & Fiction

Adams Pomeroy Pr

Balzac's humorous exploration of marriage viewed largely through the eyes of a bachelor is one of the great essays of social satire of the nineteenth century. Full of anecdotes and witty aphorisms the book is extraordinarily modern in its defense of the rights of women, particularly when it comes to sex.

Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

Essays & Correspondence

Éditions de l'originale

A Translation Of The Syriac Peshito Version Of The Psalms Of David (1861)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Observations On The Use Of Certain Prepositions In Petronius: With Special Reference To The Roman Sermo Plebius (1899)

Poetry

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travelers themselves.

American Travelers on the Nile: Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839

History

Middle East

The American University in Cairo Press

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