Accompanied by engraved portraits of Charles Dibdin, with biographical notes, manuscript, in an unidentified hand; Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); and William Kitchiner, inscribed by Kitchiner to an unidentified recipient; and clippings of a portrait and caricature of E. Rimbault Dibdin., Autograph manuscript song texts and other writings by Charles Dibdin, some with watermarks dated 1794-1814; an autograph letter, signed, from Dibdin's wife Anne Dibdin to William Kitchiner, 1824 February 28, referring to her husband's death and to a bust of him made by sculptor Robert William Sievier; 12 pencil and watercolor drawings, and 3 etching proofs, by Dibdin's daughter Anne Dibdin for illustrations in his Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland (London, 1801); and 11 autograph letters, signed, from E. Rimbault Dibdin to W. T. Freemantle, English bibliographer and book collector, 1904-1915, with a few draft responses from Freemantle, about Freemantle's collection of books and manuscripts by Charles Dibdin, and E. Rimbault Dibdin's writings about Charles Dibdin., and Autograph manuscript writings by Dibdin consist of song texts: The Cabin Boy (watermarked 1810), The Converted Rake: a Burlettina, The Cuckoo, The Flowing Bowl, The Voyage of Life (first line: "A voyage at sea and all its strife"); plays: The Land of Perfection, The Round Robin (watermarked 1810), Taffy and Whinefred, or, the Gentle Goatherd, The Touchstone, and Zeloida; a poem: Peter Nicked, or the Devil's Darling (watermarked 1794); table entertainments, consisting of narration and songs: The Quizes (watermarked 1814), and The Whim of the Moment (watermarked 1805); and papers relating to his textbook The Musical Mentor, including drafts (some watermarked 1804-1805) for a prospectus, letters seeking subscribers, essays, and song texts, and a printed prospectus.
Description:
Charles Dibdin, English composer, author, and actor; husband of Anne Dibdin (1757-1835); father of engraver Anne Dibdin (born circa 1776)., E. Rimbault Dibdin, English art curator and critic., and Purchased from Peter Murray Hill on the Plain Fund, 1954.
Subject (Name):
Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814--Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--19th century, Composers--England, Engravers--Great Britain, Illustration of books--19th century--Great Britain, and Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Great Britain
Descriptions of cats, manuscript, with drawings, briefly stating physical characteristics of breeds and referring to folklore associated with them. Accompanied by an English translation, typescript, prepared by an unidentified translator.
Description:
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1993., In Thai., and Volume consists of a continuous sheet, folded to form 16 pages.
Subject (Topic):
Cat breeds--Pictorial works, Cats--Thailand, and Cats--Thailand--Folklore
Captioned watercolor and pen and ink drawings of scenery and fellow visitors in Yellowstone National Park. A small watercolor and a quote regarding Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling appear on the first page. The illustrated cover and nine drawings are bound together with ribbon. Accompanied by four photographs of Walter Reagles in separate folder.
Description:
Purchased from Margolis & Moss on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1992., Son of James Reagles, a member of the Snake River Division of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories in the 1870s. In 1904, Walter accompanied his father on a return trip to Yellowstone and documented his visit with watercolor and pen and ink drawings. He later became a professional illustrator and was a member of the Art Directors Club of New York., and Versos blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Wyoming--Pictorial works. and Yellowstone National Park--Pictorial works.
Consists of proofs for all pages in various states (some annotated) and stencils. and Gianni Bertini's copy. Accompanied by 2 col. plastic molds of cover.
Publisher:
[J.-C. Lambert and G. Bertini],
Subject (Name):
Bertini, Gianni, 1922- and Bertini, Gianni,--1922---Ms. notes.
Collection also includes two photographs of Alain LeRoy Locke (1946 and undated); related notes, clippings, and ephemera (1907-1971); a typescript carbon of "The Wise" by Countee Cullen, inscribed to Locke by Cullen; and a checklist for an exhibition of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner., Four pastel and charcoal drawings given to Russell by Locke in 1952 include three unsigned portraits attributed to Lenwood Harvey Morris, circa 1915-1918, of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Georgia Douglas Johnson, as well as a portrait of a woman signed and dated by an unidentified artist, "S. H.," 1916., and The collection consists chiefly of letters (most autograph letters, signed) between Alain LeRoy Locke and Maurice V. Russell, 1942-1953. The correspondence discusses Russell's education, career plans, and psychoanalysis, and indicates that Locke supported Russell financially during the years he was in school. The two also exchange news of mutual acquaintances, including "Glenn" and Edward Atkinson. Later correspondence,1954-1980, concerns the death of Alain LeRoy Locke, and commemoration of his life.
Description:
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), African American author, philosopher, and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Educated at Harvard University (BA, 1907, PhD, 1918), Locke taught at Howard University from 1912-1916, 1918-1925, and 1928-1953; in retirement he moved to New York City where he died on June 9, 1954., Formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from Jack L. Lindsey on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund and the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2012., formerly owned by Maurice V. Russell and purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann sale, 2015 March 26, lot 185) on the Carl Van Vechten Fund, 2015., In Box 1: Correspondence, 1942-1948. In Box 2: Correspondence, 1949-1980; Other papers, 1907-1971. In Box 3: Drawings, 1915-1918., Includes correspondence, ephemera, and drawings,, Lenwood Harvey Morris (1889-1920) was an African American artist. He trained at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts during the early twentieth century. His best-known painting is a portrait of Alain Leroy Locke, 1915-1918, in the collection of the Howard University Art Gallery. He died of tuberculosis in 1920., and Maurice V. Russell (1923-1998), director of the Social Service Department of New York University Medical Center (1973-1988), trustee of Columbia University (1987-1995), and director of the Kenworthy-Swift Foundation (1973-1998). Russell received his bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1948, and his master's of social work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1950. He received his PhD from Columbia University Teacher's College in social psychology in 1964.
African American educators, African American philosophers, African American social workers, Educators--New York (State)--New York., Philosophers--New York (State)--New York., and Social workers--New York (State)--New York.
Three original pen and ink drawings. Two drawings, "Engineers Camp in the Mountains," and an untitled drawing depicting men surveying, contain the pencilled caption in an unidentified hand on verso: "Running the U.P.R.R. line West of Omaha, 1865." The third drawing, entitled "Lieut. H. B. Cushing's Indian fight '68," contains a note on the verso in Ransom's hand briefly listing his military service with the United States Army Infantry and Cavalry.
Description:
Member of surveying party for the Union Pacfic Railroad Company; United States Army officer. and The 1865 drawings were purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons in 1974.
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Howard Bass, -1871, Ransom, Frederick E., and Union Pacific Railroad Company--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Wars--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works, Railroads--Nebraska--Pictorial works, and Railroads--Nebraska--Surveying--Pictorial works
A volume containing 145 pattern drawings for tattoos, including images of men, women, serpents, dragons, mottoes, birds, butterflies, fish, and patriotic figures for the United States and Great Britain, circa 1915. Four of the drawings are on translucent paper that is mounted in the volume. The majority of the drawings are ink line drawings, while two drawings are colored with crayon and depict dragons, one in a flight with an eagle. The author of the volume may be C. B. Davis, a tattoo artist based in London, Great Britain.
Description:
Label pasted on interior of back cover, "Sketch Book, Series 26, Containing 30 leaves of Whatman's Drawing Paper.", Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc., on the Jonathan O. Bulkley Fund, 2007., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Davis, C. B.
Subject (Topic):
Animals in art, Body art--Pictorial works, Emblems, Patriotism in art, Tattooing--Pictorial works, and Women in art
Watercolor paintings and pencil sketches of Alaska
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Overview of Sitka, Alaska, which includes views of Baranov Castle, warehouses of the Russian-American Company, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, and Sitka Harbor with the USS Newbern on the water.
Subject (Geographic):
Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Rossiĭsko-amerikanskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡--Pictorial works and St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works
The collection consists of writings, correspondence, and printed material relating to the English poet Charlotte Mew, as assembled by the collector Frederick B. Adams. Mew's writings include a short story and a group of poems in autograph manuscript, typescript, and carbon typescript, some signed; the correspondence consists of letters from Mew to Herbert Grierson, Siegfried Sassoon, Sir Sydney Cockerell and his wife Kate (Florence Kingsford), among others, along with letters between some of those people and Adams regarding Mew and her work. Many of the items have accompanying notes by Adams regarding their provenance, such as with a Mew-inspired drawing by Ralph Hodgson that was, according to Adams, made for Poetry Bookshop proprietor Harold Monro. The single photograph in the collection is an undated snapshot of Robert Bridges sitting with three unidentified friends, one of whom was thought to be Mew. Also present in the collection are two copies of Mew's book The Farmer's Bride (London: Poetry Bookshop, 1921), one signed by Mew for Paul Lemperley and the other inscribed by J. M. Barrie to "Margaret." Also included is a carbon typescript of Mary C. Davidow's dissertation "Charlotte Mew: Biography and Criticism" (Brown University, 1960) acquired by Adams in 1989, as well as some of Davidow's research correspondence.
Description:
Box 1 holds writings, correspondence, and printed books. Box 2 holds Mary Davidow's dissertation and a set of empty custom-designed and commercial folders that Frederick Adams used to store his collection, which were retained for his annotations and provenance notes., Charlotte Mary Mew (1869-1928), English poet., Ex libris Frank J. Hogan. Ex libris Paul Lemperly. Purchased from David J. Holmes (Sotheby's sale, 2001 November 6, lots 41-48) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2002., and Frederick Baldwin Adams (1910-2001), American bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1948 to 1969.
Subject (Name):
Mew, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--United States and Poets, English--20th century
Imperfect: Arias-Misson's prints wanting. In ms. on portfolio: "VII". In ms. on individual prints: "7/XV", signed by the artists. From the Alain Arias-Misson Papers. and Title from portfolio.
A portrait of the rare books collector and Sterling Professor at Yale Chauncey Brewster Tinker by Deane Keller and Theodore Sizer. The painting is oil on canvas, and is signed at the lower left: "Deane / Keller + / Theodore / Sizer / 1959." The portrait is labeled "Chauncey Brewster Tinker" above, and Tinker is also identified as "Keeper of / Rare / Books" at right. A plaque attached to the frame reads: "Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1876 - 1963, B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901, Ph.D. 1902, Litt.D. 1946 / Keeper of Rare Books, 1930-1963. / Painted in 1959 by Deane Keller / Gift of the Class of 1909."
Description:
Deane Keller (1901-1992), American artist, academic, soldier, and preservationist. He earned a BA from Yale University in 1923 and a BFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. Keller taught for forty years at the Yale School of Fine Arts, and during World War II was an officer with the Allied Forces's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963
Subject (Topic):
Book collectors --United States --20th century and Yale University--Faculty
Metagraphic collage portrait of Michèle Bernstein created in 1963. The work has an inscribed title, "Les nopals il ñ'y a pas d'âge," in the image, and includes a drawn portrait of Bernstein made with gouache, pastel, pencil, and ink, as well as collage material consisting of textual and pictorial clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Description:
Inscription and clippings in French., Ivan Chtcheglov (1933-1998) was a French political theorist, activist, and poet. His work, Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau (1953), written under the pseudonym Gilles Ivain, inspired the Lettrist International and Situationist International., Metagraphics, also called hypergraphy and hypergraphics, an artistic technique combining text and graphic arts, was used in Lettrist works., Michèle Bernstein (born 1932) is a French novelist and critic. She was a member of the Situationist International from its founding in 1957 until 1967., Purchased from Librairie du Sandre on the Edith and Richard French Fund, 2017., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Bernstein, Michèle,--Portraits. and Chtcheglov, Ivan.
Autographed and lettered by the author.: AP., Eight words, each beginning with "com" (compassion, compass, commute, commerce, combine, communion, compose, compact) printed in the form of a flower-like swirl., and One of an edition of 26.
Subject (Name):
Ugly Duckling Presse. and Vicuña, Cecilia--Autograph.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 8
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 10
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works., Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works., and Wrangell Island (Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Dwellings--Alaska--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 9
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Sitka Lutheran Church (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 6
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Davis, Jefferson Columbus,--1828-1879--Homes and haunts--Alaska--Sitka.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 7
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 11
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Tatoosh Island (Wash.)--Pictorial works. and Washington (State)--Pictorial works.
Drawings of Alaska, and Tatoosh Island, Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Drawings by John A. Fuller that document Sitka and other locations in Alaska, 1867, as well as a drawing of a lighthouse on Tatoosh Island, Washington, 1866-1867. Images of Sitka, Alaska, include overviews of the city and landscape, as well as several structures that include St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Sitka Lutheran Church, a hospital, a sawmill, and the residence of Colonel Jefferson Columbus Davis. Depictions of other places in Alaska include a fishing station fifteen miles south of Sitka and a Native American outpost on Wrangell Island.
Description:
John A. Fuller (1828-1909) was a miner, merchant, and politician, with mining and business interests in California and Alaska. He served as a postmaster and surveyor in Sitka from 1867 to circa 1870. He later became a city councilman and mayor of Napa, California. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Pictorial works. and Sitka (Alaska)--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
Scrapbook and papers of Albert Tracy document his activities as a poet and artist, 1843-1892. The scrapbook includes clippings of his poems published in newspapers, a letter from Wendell Phillips related to the publication of a poem, and Tracy's published accounts of the Mexican War and his critiques of the post-Civil War United States Army. The papers include several manuscript poems and additional newspaper clippings, as well as pencil drawings that depict a panorama of Fort Bridger in the Utah Territory and a view of the fort interior, June 3-4, 1858.
Description:
Albert Tracy (1818-1893) joined the United States Army as a lieutenant in the 9th Infantry during the Mexican War, and served as Adjutant General of Maine, 1852-1855. He returned to the Army to serve in the 10th Infantry, in which he participated in an expedition against the Sioux from Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the Utah Expedition, and in the American Civil War, when he attained the rank of colonel and served as aide-de-camp to John C. Frémont.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bridger (Wyo.)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Tracy, Albert,--1818-1893 and Utah Expedition--(1857-1858)
One gouache drawing by Aaron Douglas created to illustrate "The Prodigal Son" in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, by James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1927). The illustration features silhouettes of a man and two women grouped under a single overhead light, and framed by graphic representations of jazz-age vices such as a dollar bill, playing cards, dice, and a gin bottle, as well as jazz trombones, jutting in from the outside edges. It is one of eight illustrations by Douglas for the volume.
Alternative Title:
The Prodigal Son
Description:
Aaron Douglas, American painter and illustrator active in the Harlem Renaissance; he was born in 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, and died in 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1966., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Douglas, Aaron and Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.--God's Trombones--Illustrations
Subject (Topic):
Illustration of books--United States and Illustrators--United States
A portrait of the English poet Alexander Pope by Jonathan Richardson the Elder, with Pope portrayed seated and supporting an open book with his proper left hand. The painting is oil on canvas, inscribed "POPE" at the lower left corner.
Alternative Title:
Alexander Pope resting on an open book and Alexander Pope, full-length, seated, his left hand resting on
an open book
Description:
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet., Gift of Joan Pittman Schnabel Rea, 1964., Jonathan Richardson (1665-1745), English artist., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Pope, Alexander,--1688-1744 and Richardson, Jonathan,--1665-1745
Subject (Topic):
Artists--Great Britain and Authors, English--18th century--Portraits
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910 Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Belgium) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
Published / Created:
[1849] and Undated
Call Number:
2013 1919
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Alternative Title:
Holman Hunt by Gabriel, Holman-Hunt by WMR, and Woolner by WMR
Description:
Bound with Paris. Exposition universelle, 1855. Commission impériale. Explication des ouvrages de peinture. Paris, 1855. From the library of William Michael Rossetti, with his manuscript notes. With 3 pencil drawings on the verso of the plates, one of Thomas Woolner by William Michael Rossetti, one of Holman Hunt by William Michael Rossetti, and one of Holman Hunt by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Publisher:
Publié par le Conseil d'administration de l'Académie royale des beaux-arts d'Anvers,
Subject (Name):
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910, Rossetti, William Michael,--1829-1919--Ms. notes, Rossetti, William Michael,--1829-1919--Ownership, and Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
Subject (Topic):
Art --Exhibitions and Art--Belgium--Antwerp--Catalogs
A watercolor study of foliage in a planter behind which stands an urn; a palette over which hangs a cascade of pink roses sits in the foreground. and On the verso of the image is a watercolor silhouette of a lady in black and white, possibly the artist.
Description:
In pencil on recto: Given by Lady [indecipherable] / to Lady Llanover Jan 1862 - / Belonged to [indecipherable]., In pencil on verso: 1980.523., and Signed and dated by the artist on the palette: M. Dela- / 1786.
Subject (Name):
DeDelany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 and Llanover, Augusta Hall, Baroness, 1802-1896
Includes variations of a cube, jack-in-the-box, an artist painting a swastika, variations of "point A to point B", speech bubbles and exclamations, rubber stamp impressions, and early maps. SSF4960
Cheyenne warrior and son of Cheyenne chief Eagle Head. He was imprisoned from 1875 to 1878 at Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, Florida, with other "hostile" Plains Indians. Their jailer, Captain Richard H. Pratt, encouraged the artistic talent of the Indians
Alternative Title:
Howling Wolf, Sketchbook
Description:
The note, "Drawn by Howling Wolf (Cheyenne) Oct 1876 Fort Marion" is written in pencil inside the front cover in an unidentified hand.
Subject (Geographic):
Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting., Bison, Cheyenne art., Cheyenne Indians., Horses., Indian art., and Rites and ceremonies.
Message from the president of the United States : in compliance with a resolution of the Senate
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Description:
James W. Aberts personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians attributed to James W.
Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--Pictorial works, Mouth breathing--Pictorial works, and Sleep positions--Physiological effect--Pictorial works