Identifier: fieldgenealogybe02pier (find matches)
Title: Field genealogy; being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700. Emigrant ancestors located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Virginia. All descendants of the Fields of England, whose ancestor, Hurbutus de la Field, was from Alsace-Lorraine
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pierce, Frederick Clifton, 1855-1904
Subjects: Field family
Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly. ►J u^ •y.Z < Z < z z tl II FIELD GENEALOGY. 709 The south end of this gallery was occupied by a broad fireplace,* bricked inbronze and furnished with chimney-corner seats of polished ebony. Extendingfrom this fireplace around the corner to the door that opens out onto the loggia is aseat of ebony. The fireplace is surrounded by a mosaic of bronze glass, and oneither side, supporting a canopy of ebony edged with jewels in pale yellow andemerald green, are four ebony pillars with caps (of jeweled bronze. Above thecanopy of ebony is a broad band of squares and ovals in light and dark green mot-tled glass. Beneath the pillar-supported canopy, most modestly placed and workedout in green mosaic on the bronze background which surrounds the fireplace, isthe inscription: Henry Field Memorial Room, MDCCCXCI. In speaking of thisgallery as an especially fitting memorial to Mr. Field, N. H. Carpenter said: Mr. Field was one of the most eflficient of the Art Institute trustees for eig

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