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
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
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.