Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1985 - 2/28/1987

Funding Totals

$16,107.00 (approved)
$16,107.00 (awarded)


Victorian Bibliomania: The Illuminated Book in 19th CenturyBritain

FAIN: GM-22611-85

Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI 02903-2717)
Deborah J. Johnson (Project Director: October 1984 to October 1990)

To support implementation of an interpretive exhibition of 70 British 19th-century books from New England museums, focusing on the history of illumination and exploring how these books express the 19th-century British search for links with the standards and values of the past.