A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686-1850
Softcover
1986 · Germantown, NY
by Piwonka, Ruth
Germantown, NY: Friends of Clermont, 1986. Softcover. G (moderate wear to cover spine, edges and some scuffs to covers; pages are nice and clean.). Light pink and color illustrated wraps, 176 pp., BW and color illustrations. "Both a catalogue of a major exhibition marking the tercentenary of the historic estate and a social history of the manor and the distinguished Livingston family. ... The book is also, quite literally, a portrayal of the Livingstons through reproductions of the many excellent portraits that were panited of them down through the years. ... Clermont, with the eighteenth-century Livingston house that is its centerpiece, has been called 'the Mount Vernon of the Hudson Valley.'" (back cover) Includes a checklist of portraits and bibliography. (Inventory #: 162376)