GREEK KEY CORNER

 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES

I.  "GREEK KEY" CORNER and LYRE (1846)

LYRES, #172, Plumbe' Lyre ~ 1846

Rinhart 172: Lyre Motif

Case label inside for the Plumbe National Daguerreian Depot, SOTHEBY'S

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78964373/elizabeth_rankin_james

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112750199/lucy_audubon

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6102721/john_james_audubon

Artist. Indelibly linked with the painting of birds, he was the son of a French sea captain and his Creole mistress. Educated in his father's native France, he had spent a disastrous year at a military school before studying art in Paris with preeminent painter Jacques-Louis David. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States, where he set out for the frontier. An excellent shot and horseman, Audubon could also dance with grace and perform parlor tricks, but his one obsession was painting birds. In the course of his travels, he co-owned a Kentucky sawmill with George Keats, brother of the famed English poet. This and various other business ventures ended in failure, however, for he subordinated everything to the pursuit of his art. His passion eventually rewarded him with fame and renown when "The Birds of North America" began publication in 1846. The celebrated artist-frontiersman later bought a tract of land along the Hudson River in upper Manhattan, and afterwards donated part of it for the cemetery in which he is now buried.

Bio by: Nikita Barlow

https://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/41722/john-james-audubon/the-birds-of-america-from-drawings-made-in-the-united-states-and-their-territories

AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851)

The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their territories.

New York: V.G. Audubon, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860. 7 volumes, octavo. (10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). 500 hand-coloured lithographs.

n 1846, John James Audubon and John Bachman published a copperplate engraving of the extinct Hare Indian dog in their book The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. The engraving was hand-colored. 

Explanation

The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America: This book was published in three volumes between 1845 and 1848. 

Hare Indian dog: This extinct domestic dog was used by the Hare Indians for coursing. It was fast and agile like a coyote, but had the temperament of a domestic dog. 

John James Audubon: Audubon was a famous artist and naturalist who documented American birds and mammals through detailed illustrations and extensive studies. His major work, The Birds of America, is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever created. 

https://data.library.amnh.org/archives/repositories/3/resources/8416

John James Audubon was a naturalist and artist, known especially for his work on birds. His The birds of America was first published 1827-1838; The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, published 1845-1853.

John James Audubon was a naturalist and artist, known especially for his work on birds. His The birds of America was first published 1827-1838; The viviparous quadrupeds of North America, published 1845-1853.

Thomas Lincoln was a Maine farmer, a friend and contemporary of J.J. Audubon's son John Woodhouse Audubon. Lincoln accompanied J.J. Audubon on his 1833 journey to Labrador.

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II.  "GREEK KEY" CORNERS (1850-1855)

~Paquet, Philadelphia engraver&

1850 - 1855

Berg 5-81; Nolan p.206

Usually with #256

Delicate Flowers

p.183, on the front

Signed 'Paquet"

Prague ????

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Jeanette H. purchased from Carl Mautz Nov. 2024

"GREEK KEY" CORNERS

~Paquet, Philadelphia engraver, 1850 - 1855

Source:  Berg 5-81; Nolan p.206

Usually with #256 Delicate Flowers

p.183, on the front

Paquet engraver Philadelphia mint

 COMPARISON

GREEK KEY" CORNERS

~Paquet, Philadelphia engraver, 1850 - 1855

Source: Berg 5-81; Nolan p.206

Usually with #256 Delicate Flowers

p.183, on the front

Paquet engraver Philadelphia mint

Plumbe 1846

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STRAPWORK 

Strapwork (Bookbinding decorations)

"A binding decorated with a pattern of interlaced double lines, usually in a geometrical design." (Miller 2014, 492) See British Museum 1965 for a catalog from Jean Grolier's collection with many examples.

Terms: entrelac (Fr); entrelac avec mosaïque (Fr; with onlay)

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  16th c. French strapwork binding

 
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  16th c. English strapwork binding

 
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  19th c. English strapwork binding

 
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  19th c. Belgian painted strapwork binding

Note:  alternative descriptions Geometric, Gothic, Border, ....

Source:  https://www.conservation-wiki.com/wiki/BPG_Book_Decoration

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GREEK REVIVAL,  NEO-GREC

Greek Revival: The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as an architecture professor at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1842. 

The taste for all things Greek in furniture and interior design, sometimes called Neo-Grec, reached its peak in the beginning of the 19th century when the designs of Thomas Hope influenced a number of decorative styles known variously as Neoclassical, Empire, Russian Empire, and Regency architecture in Great Britain. Greek Revival architecture took a different course in a number of countries, lasting until the 1860s and the American Civil War and later in Scotland.

Sources:

https://www.vintagemaineimages.com/record/5520/cart

https://yarbs.net/colorizations-enhancements/dolley-madison-enhanced-daguerreotypes.html

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.92

https://www.mainememory.net/search?browse=People&browse=National+Figures&browse=Madison%2C+Dolly

https://youtu.be/ON3v5U1xyhc?si=6uNsvJt3hect3myf