Vicki Mahaffey has been teaching and writing about James Joyce for decades, at the Rosenbach but also at University of Pennsylvania and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. And yet she has more to say on the topic. Her new book, The Joyce of Everyday Life (Bucknell University Press), feels like a book Joyce himself might have …
On the stairwell of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s historic house hangs a portrait of a woman and her child (1954.1882). The woman’s elbow rests on a plush sofa while the child combs her mother’s dark hair. The identity of the woman has long been a source of confusion, and our limited documentation on the …
This month’s collections stewardship activities saw a number of big impact changes: after over 20 years, the return of garden sculpture from off-site storage; coordinated movement of big and heavy objects; a peek at Rosenbach objects on loan to a nearby institution; and a new member of the Collections Staff. The Rosenbach’s garden statues are …
This month’s collections stewardship activities underscored the global reach and impact of the Rosenbach’s collections as staff welcomed back objects that were on international loan, made new acquisitions, and served researchers abroad. The Beast is back! The Number of the Beast is 666 by William Blake (1954.0011) is a watercolor, pen, and ink drawing based on the biblical …