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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.


The Continence of Scipio

Moses Striking the Rock

Virgin and Child

Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden

Venus Sleeping

The Cyclops at Their Forge

Henrietta Maria Queen of Great Britain

Philadelphia and Elizabeth Wharton

Holy Family with Saint Anne and two angels

Portrait of Pope Innocent the Tenth

The Doctors of the Church

Men's Bath

Dutch emblem print

The Alba Madonna

Le cheval hennissant/the neighing horse

Glaucus and Scylla

Goats

Woman and man conversing

Man and woman talking in the street

The Miser

Skaters

Rembrandt in cap, open mouthed

Beggar man and beggar woman conversing

Christ Healing the Sick

Three Soldiers and Woman

The Mocking of Ceres

Peasants in conversation

decorative vignette

Grand Plan of Houghton Hall

Section of the East Front of Houghton Hall

End Front, Houghton Hall

North End of Staircase, Houghton Hall

Ceiling of Drawing Room North of Salon, Houghton Hall

Ceiling in Drawing Room South of Salon, Houghton Hall

Dancing Room Chimney Piece, Houghton Hall


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