Curator @MBAMTL | @WilliamandMary, @WPAMC1, @Yale alum | @Material_Race | art + history + #materialculture, 1500-1800 | #VastEarlyAmerica | #EarlyCanada
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Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
The last known Revolutionary War veterans died shortly after the Civil War, still many had their photograph taken. Come face-to-face with this generation with the Museum's Revolutionary Generation wall this #VeteransDay.
📸: bit.ly/3jOIyh4
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
The barn complex at the Sheldon House was built between the mid-18th century and the mid-19th century, and the surviving piece of that structure, Sheldon Shed, had a roof that was failing. Historic Deerfield's maintenance team began a major restoration of it last winter!
ALT An aerial view of Sheldon House, featuring a section of the roof. Two men are seen working on the roof.
ALT An image of Sheldon House, with a red arrow indicating the Sheldon Shed located in the background to the right.
ALT A ground-level view of two men working on the roof of Sheldon Shed.
ALT A black and white photograph from the early twentieth century depicting children on a wagon, with Sheldon Shed visible on the right side of the image.
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
The Front Parlor's walls were blue for nearly 40 years before they were painted a cream or stone color in 2018. This transformation is the result of paint analysis and documentary research.
Learn more: bit.ly/4cYNDN8
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
We’re thrilled to announce that an ambitious paint restoration project is currently underway at Old North Church!
Expert craftspeople are removing layers of white overpaint in our sanctuary to reveal hidden angels painted in the late 1720s and 1730s.
youtube.com/watch?v=0-hVq1Vf…
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Non-historians assume that reading the dates on documents is a simple task. Historians faced with calculating the 5th day after the feast of some obscure saint in a regnal year that started on a moveable feast, however, realise that it’s not as blessedly simple as that.
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
#SalonDeLecture 📚️
🗣️ Rendez-vous jeudi 10 octobre pour une présentation de « The Seneca orthography manuscript of Esther Blueye » avec Jamie Jacobs et Sean Mooney.
👉️ Plus d'infos : bit.ly/4gtsmOJ
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Registration is open! “Reawakening Materials: American Art, Empire, and Material Histories in Historic Deerfield’s Collection,” a public colloquium centered on empire & the materials of artworks in Historic Deerfield’s collection, will run November 7–8.
historic-deerfield.org/event…
ALT This 18th century piece of needlework depicts a dying man, General Wolfe, laying on the ground surrounded by fellow officers. A soldier kneeling besides Wolfe is holding a cloth to his wound, while two standing men look on, one carrying a large flag and another clutching his hands in prayer. An Indigenous person also gazes at Wolfe as the battle continues in the background.
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The countdown is on! "Material Selves: Object Biographies and Identities in Motion" will be appearing on bookshop shelves at the end of this month🎉
Hardback and ebook editions are available now for pre-order at bloomsbury.com/au/material-s…
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Today is #WorldMusicDay! As a powerful symbol of cultural exchange born from the Atlantic slave trade, the banjo blends West African & European traditions and has heavily influenced much folk and country music today.
What’s a favorite song of yours that has banjo in it? 🪕🎵
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Rosario Granados's paper @agotoronto 's frame conference discussed Venezuelan frames in Rococo style, with strikingly flared and flamelike crests (rather like German Rococo) & shallow profiles, made from local woods, colours & metals, by racially diverse craftsmen & cabinetmakers
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Archaeologists have solved the centuries-old mystery behind the oldest known tombstone in the US carrying an English knight, illuminating in the process the complexities of ancient trade routes. artnews.com/art-news/news/ar…
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Young daughter of the Picts, covered in A+ tattooing (& not much else!) as depicted by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues around 1585. Today is his day.
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Bio of the Day: John Johnson, usually known as Smoke Johnson) (1792–1886), pine tree chief of the Mohawks.
His splendid rhetoric in the traditional Iroquois oratorical style earned him the title “The Mohawk Warbler.” He died #OTD 1886.
biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_…📷 @LibraryArchives
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
To the left, to the left — it's #InternationalLeftHandersDay! ✋
This powder horn in our collection is curved to sit on someone’s left hip. Once part of the collection of the Valley Forge Historical Society, it is engraved with foliage, a manor house, moths, and more.
Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
Although the hairstyle and blackbirds may be somewhat disturbing to modern eyes, the dress is probably a rural adaptation of Parisian fashion, and a modified version of the hairstyle is documented in portraits of the 1800–1805 period.
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Recently given to Historic Deerfield by an anonymous donor, this exquisite Jacobite engraved Amen glass is engraved with the crowned cypher of James VIII of Scotland, the "Old Pretender." Anyone found possessing it would have risked execution.
Accession Number: 2023.26.76
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America 250 |CT Story of the Week! Art is an important way that we tell stories and create a historical narrative. Learn about how Ralph Earl and Mariann Wolcott were on opposite sides of the American Revolution: connecticuthistory.org/maria…
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Philippe Halbert, PhD retweeted
I'm honoured to be speaking @RoyalHistSoc on some of the research about Indigenous travellers to Europe which didn't quite make it into #OnSavageShores. It says 'in-person', but it will also be streamed online. Just sign up at the link! Do join us 😊
Our next in-person lecture will take place 13 Sept with Dr @carolinepennock. She will be speaking on 'Cannibals, Curiosities or Catholics? Indigenous peoples in early seventeenth-century France'.
Register for your place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/cannibals…
