Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680–1758

Softcover
266 pages, 11 ½ x 8 ½ in.
85 color + 509 b/w illus.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1999
ISBN 9780876331293

Focusing on Philadelphia’s prominent role in the history of Colonial America, this exhibition catalogue surveys the decorative and fine arts produced during the initial settlement of the region. The rich history of craftsmanship—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass and metalwork, portraits, and book illustrations—as well as intellectual and scientific pursuits in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries are explored, all in context of Pennsylvania’s evolution into an international cultural and economic force.

Jack L. Lindsey is curator of American decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.