Word: laced
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are some little known facts in connection with the history of clothing at the University. At first it would seem that the students dressed plainly and soberly, but in 1745 the Overseers found it necessary to prevent the wearing of gold or silver brocade and lace. From then on various sumptuary laws were proclaimed regulating to the minutest detail every man's apparel--Sometimes prescribing on what public occasions nightgowns should be worn, and sometimes forbidding them altogether, as in 1822: "A night-gown of cotton, or fabric, or silk fabric may be worn....except on the Sabbath...
...Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa Croce, "Portrait of a Man"; Nicholas Maes, "Portrait of a Man"; Rubens, "Meleager and Atalanta"; Nicholas Maes, "The Lace-Maker"; Jacobella, "Madonna and Child"; Corot, "Landscape"; Gainsborough, "Landscape"; Daubigny, "Landscape"; Italian sminiatures, "Scenes from Life of St. Francis"; Venetian 16th century painting, "Madonna and Child"; German 16th century painting, "Three Saints"; Lazzaro Bastiani(?), "Annunciation"; Giambattista Zelotti, "Doge in Adoration"; Thibetan painting; seventeen miniatures; Indian miniature; three tapestries; Italian brocade; Tanagra...
...pictures of exceptional merit have been added to the loan exhibition of Dutch paintings, now on view at the Fogg Art Museum. These are Rubens' splendid "Meleager and Atlanta," and "The Lace-Maker," by Nicholas Maes, a characteristic genre picture of his best period. The paintings which remain on exhibition include one in oil by Rembrandt and one by Franz Hals. There is also an excellent Van Ostade of a group of peasants playing cards, illustrating well the remarkable skill of the Dutch masters of that period in genre painting. These pictures are loaned through the kindness of Mr. Henry...
From O. Bryant '04 the Museum has received an original Japanese painting and a number of Japanese prints; also a piece of Italian bobbin lace, possibly of the seventeenth century, and 17 ancient gems...