Skip Moskey is an independent scholar who researches and writes about notable Americans of the long 19th-century who were connected to the history of art, architecture, or politics in Washington, D.C. His subjects have included Isabel and Larz Anderson, Mary Scott Townsend, Elizabeth Kilgour Anderson, Edward Hamlin Everett, David Belasco, Perry Belmont, and Woodrow Wilson. He has lectured at the Boston Athenaeum, Victorian Society in America, American Library in Paris, The Society of the Cincinnati, and Woodrow Wilson House. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and is a member of The Association of Oldest Inhabitants of D.C., the Alliance Française de Washington, and the Victorian Society in America.

Below: Our new site ID graphic, a so-called “Garland Bowl” (Roman, First Century CE, glass cast and cut). From the Edward C. Moore Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.