Beauty's legacy : gilded age portraits in America / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati; with a contribution by Valerie Steele.
The catalog features 65 portraits from the New-York Historical Society collection: sitters range from celebrated beauties to business titans, among them Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter, and Mary Gardiner Thompson;...
Corporate Author: | New-York Historical Society (Host institution) |
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Other Authors: |
Gallati, Barbara Dayer
(Editor) Steele, Valerie (Contributor) |
Language: | English |
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New York :
The New-York Historical Society in association with D Giles Limited,
[2013]
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Physical Description: | 184 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm |
Format: | Book |