Old genre paintings and other artworks are a time-tested source for data in historical archaeology. About 25 years ago, I made a stab at simplifying the process. There is (or was) an outfit called University Prints, then based in Cambridge, Mass., that sold color prints of artworks. A teacher could assemble a set of prints, and University Prints would make up custom "textbooks" for classroom use. I understand the firm moved out of their Cambridge garret, and I have lost track of them. About 1972, I went through their collection and put together a deck of prints that contained significant works of archaeological interest. Maybe they still have my notes, but there were about 75 seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings in the group that directly related to historical archaeology. If they are still in business, we could probably get them to sell sets of prints for historical archaeologists. |--------------------------------------------------------| | 69 Land Rover Ned Heite | | Camden, Delaware 19934 | | 0 to 60 http://www.dmv.com/~iceland | | eventually http://home.dmv.com/~eheite/index.html| |--------------------------------------------------------|