Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art
Published:
1982
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17967462954
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VG. Off-white and illustrated wraps. 82 pp. 15 color, 100 bw plates. "An exhibition organized in recognition of the tercentenary of William Penn's first landing in America." Catalogue of an exhibition held Sept. 8 to Oct. 31, 1982. Illustrated and annotated catalogue of 115 works, with 16 pages of text on the England of William Penn's time, including history, fine arts, architecture and decorative arts. Concentrates on Baroque England in the 17th century, during the reign of the last absolute monarch, Charles II, who provided Penn with the charter to the colony that became Pennsylvania. Superb illustrations.