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  • About George Perkins Marsh
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Marsh Collection

Resources

American History Museum

David Lowenthal, George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000).

Caroline Crane Marsh, Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh, Vol. 1 [all published] (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1888).

Helena E. Wright, The First Smithsonian Collection: the European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015).________.

Prints at the Smithsonian: The Origins of a National Collection (Washington: National Museum of American History, 1996).

Digitized volumes from the collection of George Perkins Marsh, sold to the Smithsonian, and still held by the Smithsonian Libraries.


Geometrical Plan of the Garden Park and Plantation of Houghton Hall

West Front of Houghton in Norfolk

East Front of Houghton Hall

West Front of Houghton Hall

Section of the West Front, Houghton Hall

Section of the Hall and Salon, Houghton Hall

Plan of the Principal Floor, Houghton Hall

East Side of Staircase, Houghton Hall

Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall

Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall

Ceiling of Great Dining Room, Houghton Hall

Ceiling in North East Bed Chamber, Houghton Hall

Chimney Piece in Hall, Houghton Hall

Ceiling in Northwest Bed Chamber, Houghton Hall

Salon Chimney Piece, Houghton Hall

Chimney Pieces, Houghton Hall

Chimney Pieces, Houghton Hall

Plan of Stables, Houghton Hall

East Front of Stables, Houghton Hall

The Happy Peasants or Landscape with figures dancing

The Mystic Marriage of St. Catharine

The Placing [of] Christ in the Sepulchre

The Prodigal Son

A Sea Port

Africa

A Fruit Market

Venus Bathing and Cupids

A Nymph and Shepherd

The Fisherman

The Larder

The Waggoner

The Adoration of the Shepherds

A Lady Reading

Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar

The Shepherd


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