Carved mirror frame: Italian Court – Historic Print
![Carved mirror frame: Italian Court, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0f/0fee159f48f6-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Carved mirror frame: Italian Court comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Carved mirror frame: Italian Court
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A carved mirror frame from the Italian court anchors this engraving, which shows the ornamental woodwork that Italian makers sent to the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. The engraving was reproduced in *Masterpieces of the Centennial International Exhibition*, a multivolume publication that offered American readers illustrated records of the fair's finest objects. Such pieces were meant to showcase craftsmanship to a broad public, and mirror frames of this kind drew attention to the decorative arts that national courts presented alongside manufactures and machinery. The record does not give a date for the engraving itself.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Masterpieces of teh Centennial International Exhibition, 1876-1878, v. 2, p 361. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exh.--1876; Mirrors. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 962 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158083 |
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