You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
None
None
John Graybill, born John Krehbiel in 1735 in Wierhof, Germany, immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1754, and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Barbara Daradinger (1737-1829) His descendants lived in Pennsylvania.
Christian Wenger (1698-1772) was born in Bern, Switzerland. He fled to the Palatinate in 1705, immigrated to America in 1727 and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he married Eve Graybill/Krabill/ Kraybill. Descendants and relatives scattered throughout the United States and into Canada.
None
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles, organized by the Portland Art Museum, Oct. 13, 2018-Jan. 13, 2019.
Established for the building of keyboard instruments, by the mid-1790s the workshop of brothers Robert and William Gray had become one of the leading organ-makers in London, with instruments in St Paul's, Covent Garden and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Under William's son John Gray, the firm built some of the largest English organs of the 1820s and 1830s, as well as exporting major instruments to Boston and Charleston in the United States. In the early 1840s, with the marriage of John Gray's daughter to Frederick Davison - a member of the circle of Bach-enthusiasts around the composer Samuel Wesley - the firm became 'Gray & Davison'. Davison was a progressive figure who reformed workshop practice...
Schneider and Graybill families (with various spellings) began to emigrate from the Palatinate as early as 1709. They arrived at Philadelphia, Kingston, New York, and Boston. Descendants and relatives settled in New York and Pennsylvania, but eventually scattered throughout the United States and into Canada.
None
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, decorative arts, drawings, paintings, and photographs. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 13 includes articles written by Helayna I. Thickpenny, Michael Pfrommer, Klaus Parlasca, Heidemaire Koch, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Colin Streeter, Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer-David, C. Gay Nieda, Adrian Sassoon, Selma Holo, Marcel Roethlisberger, Louise Lippincott, Mark Leonard, Burton B. Fredericksen, Nigel Glendinning, Eleanor Sayre, and William Innes Homer.