Looking Glass by Artist unknown
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Looking Glass

Artist unknown · 1790–1810

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Cooper Williams, Inc., Boston, by 1925 [incoming receipt, R2057, Jan. 15, 1925; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Antiquarian Society, Chicago, 1925; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6656/antiquarians-the-first-one-hundred-years"><em>The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years</em></a>, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 155.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Accessions and Loans," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 19, no. 6 (Sept. 1925): 75 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Year Book of The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1928), 38.
  • Meyric R. Rogers, <em>American Interior Design: The Traditions and Development of Domestic Design from Colonial Times to the Present</em> (W.W. Norton, 1947), 120, fig. 105 (ill.).
  • The Antiquarian Society, <em>The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in Its Collections and Notes on the Society's Aims and History, Chicago</em> (The Antiquarian Society, 1951), n.p., cat. 34 (ill.).
  • Milo M. Naeve, "American Art and the Great Seal," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 70, no. 4 (Jul–Aug. 1976): cover, 3–4 (ill.).
  • Valerie Tvrdik, ed., <em>The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 130, cat. 155 (ill.).
  • Milo M. Naeve, <em>The Classical Presence in American Art</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 25 (ill.).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 119–120, cat. 46 (ill.)

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