Vanderbilt's House and Collection
Fan
| Another Quality Print from Martin2001
| Type of print: | Photogravure - Original antique print. Japan edition. Only 500 copies printed. SCARCE.
| | Year of printing: | 1893
| | Artist - Engraver - Publisher: | Prosdocini - n/a - George Barrie, Boston New York Philadelphia. | | Condition: | Excellent - Very good - Good - Fair.
| Overall dimensions of print:
| incl. blank margins: 12 x 16 inches. (1 inch = 2,54 cm)
| | Type of paper: | Thick - Heavier, matte finish - Medium heavy - Slightly heavier - Thin. | | Reverse side: | Blank - With text or pictures. | | Notes: | 1. Green border around the print is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed, it is not part of the print.
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Description
of the subject depicted in the print:
A superb print from a work illustrating the House and Art Collections of Mr. Vanderbilt. The work was profusely illustrated with etchings, colored lithographs, and photogravures of the mansion, paintings, statuary, bric-a-brac, interior decoration, etc. This magnificent work, of which the chromo-lithographic plates in gold and silver and colors were remarque proofs, was one of the most sumptuous issued in any country.
McKim, Mead & White was America's preeminent architectural firm by the end of the nineteenth century. The house designed for Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt by McKim, Mead & White is representative of the firm's Neoclassical Beaux-Arts architecture from this time period. It is a clear, concise, and beautiful design, highly successful in its interpretation of Beaux-Arts theory. Neoclassical structures with Beaux-Arts ornamentation were rarely built for country-place architecture. While a few others of this type survive in other locales, the Vanderbilt Mansion was the only one ever constructed in the Hudson River Valley. In addition to its significance as a rare architectural design for the country place, it is also a component of the whole of Vanderbilt grand-house commissions from Frederick's generation of builders, an outstanding legacy left for America's heritage.
The figures and scenes on the fan are of Italian interest. Titian and Marco Polo are two of the identifiable portraits, little vignettes depict Venice scenes.
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