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Magazine Antiques, August, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

Musee d'Orsay: "Jongkind (1819-1891)"; to September 5.*

Great Britain

AYLESBURY Waddeson Manor: Newly opened restored rooms; to December 23.

BATH American Museum in Britain: "Stars, Stripes and Spirals: Quilts from Wales and America"; to October 21.

EDINBURGH Scottish National Portrait Gallery: "Portrait Miniatures from the Albion Collection"; to September 5.

GLASGOW Hunterian Museum: "The World of Chaucer: Medieval Books and Manuscripts"; to August 28.*

LONDON Buckingham Palace, Queen's Gallery: "George III and Queen Charlotte: Patronage, Collecting and Court Taste"; to January 9, 2005.*

Fleming Collection: "A Picturesque Pursuit: Scottish Landscapes from the National Gallery of Scotland [Edinburgh]"; to September 4.*

Foundling Museum: Newly opened museum on Brunswick Square.*

National Portrait Gallery: "Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers"; to October 31.

Sir John Soane's Museum: "Saving Wotton: The Remarkable Story of a Soane Country House"; to September 25.*

Somerset House (Hermitage Rooms): "Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands"; to August 22.*

Tate Britain: "Art of the Garden"; to August 30.*

Tate Modern: "Edward Hopper"; to September 5.*

NORTHAMPTON 78 Derngate: Newly opened restored house with Charles Rennie Mackintosh interiors.

NOTTINGHAM Weston Art Gallery, University of Nottingham: "Hooked on Books: The Library of Sir John Soane, Architect, 1753-1837"; to August 30.*

The Netherlands

AMSTERDAM Hermitage Amsterdam: "Greek Gold: From the Treasure Chambers of the Hermitage [Saint Petersburg]"; to August 29.

GRONINGEN Groninger Museum: "Two Hundred Treasures: Oriental Porcelain in the Netherlands"; to October 24.*

THE HAGUE Gemeentemuseum: "A Lavish Spread: Ten Years of Acquisitions in the Field of Fashion, Decorative Arts and Design"; to January 30, 2005.

South Korea

SEOUL Chung Young Yang Embroidery Museum, Sookmyung Women's University: Newly opened museum. "Silken Threads of East Asia"; ongoing.*

Switzerland

RIGGISBERG Abegg-Stiftung: "Shuttle, Brush and Thread Ball: Late Antique Textiles from Egypt and Their Production"; to November 7.

An * indicates that a catalogue, brochure, and/or checklist is available for this exhibition. Information and photographs should be received three months before the opening month of an exhibition and four months before lectures, symposiums, and antiques shows that include loan exhibitions or lectures.

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