55th Annual Delaware Show

ELIZABETH HUMPHREY Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur “The Very Quintessence of Fashion”: George Wyon, Composition Ornament, and Design Books at Winterthur Design books and trade catalogues offer incredible insight into the evolution of styles and the international scope of designs used in America. Join us to discover how a recent Winterthur Library acquisition, George Wyon’s Trade Catalog of Composition Ornament , helps bring the museum collection alive. R. J. LARA & ALEXANDRA ROSENBERG Lois F. McNeil Fellows, Winterthur Truths of the Trade: Collecting, Researching, and Exhibiting an Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Cabinet Looks can be deceiving! Winterthur’s acquisition of an unassuming mahogany double cabinet at the 2016 Delaware Antiques Show opened the door to the study of an object with a truly remarkable story. Join us for a fascinating glimpse into the complex history of the cabinet and its active role in the transatlantic trade networks that transported shiploads of goods and captive people during the 18th and 19th centuries. Lectures sponsored by WINTERTHUR PROGRAM IN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE PRESENTS YOUNG SCHOLARS Saturday, November 10, 2:00 pm, Pusey & Jones Room Each year the Delaware Antiques Show highlights the research of current and/or recent students from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. The University of Delaware and Winterthur, with the full support of H. F. du Pont, established this graduate program in 1952 to promote the interdisciplinary study of American decorative arts and material culture. The program’s alumni hold distinguished positions internationally in museums, antiques and auction houses, preservation organizations, historical societies, colleges and universities, and libraries. — 11 —