On 23/04/2012 00:33, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
From what I can tell, Cleveland has an excellent lace collection.
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It would be wonderful to be able to go there and see it all.
Photographs from the Schiff Collection are featured throughout Ricci's
book Old Italian
The whole 2 volume set is online, hosted at the University of Arizona's
website. Here's the link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/oilace.html
Volume 1 has more to do with the needle laces, with Volume 2 concentrating
more on bobbin laces. It's fascinating to read, and tons of pretty
Yes, actually, I was going to ask about the lace collection. From what I
can tell, Cleveland has an excellent lace collection. Some pieces were
donated by Mrs. E.S. Harkness to that museum in honor of her mother-in-law, as
the family had Cleveland roots. Mrs. Harkness was a major lace donor
Thank you for sending this link. I have just had great pleasure, both
from seeing the paintings you mentioned, and beginning to explore the
wealth of other art images on the website, (which I've bookmarked for
future visits).
By the way, when I searched on 'lace', I noticed that there was a
I had the pleasure of seeing the Rembrandt in America exhibit at the Cleveland
Museum of Art this week.
http://www.clevelandart.org/visit/exhibitions.aspx
If you click on the
Rembrandt in America link, pictures 3 and 6 have lace in
them...there were
more exhibited that are not included here.
