Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."-

Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries. They knitted our expansive nation together and have

Collecting Italian Renaissance paintings during America’s Gilded Age was fraught with risk because of the uncertain identities of the artists and the conflict

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This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a painting’s subsequent versions created by the same artist who