Collection of watches loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the city of New York by Mrs. George A. Hearn
A privately printed 1907 catalogue of a watch collection lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by Mrs. George A. Hearn, compiled by Wendell Stanton Howard. Its plates photograph pocket watches and watch cases in black-and-white against dark backgrounds, many with painted or enamelled dials and figurative scenes on the case backs. A designer could take from them the decorative vocabulary of eighteenth-century European watchmaking: small circular formats, classical figure compositions, and ornamental borders.
