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- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 12
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- "Time stands behind an oval table covered with a cloth on which is an hour-glass, its sands nearly run out, standing on a large flat book inscribed 'Traitè de Paix', from which five seals hang evenly. Behind him is a doorway in a stone wall, covered with a curtain, one side of which he holds. With his left forefinger he points upwards at the inscription above the door: 'L'avenir', which is decorated with seven (drooping) ears of corn. The seals are inscribed (left to right): 'F.W.' [Frederick William of Prussia]; 'G Rx', with its ribbon inscribed 'God save the King'; France; a crowned 'C' [Catherine II]; 'Fr. Imp.' [Francis Imperator] (prophetic of the powers that decided the fate of Holland in 1815). 'Le génie du Terns garde la porte de l'avenir;... Qui est le mortel assez hardi, pour oser le penetrer? . . .' Text, 'Proverbs', x. 28. To this is added, in English only, 'St. Matthew', v. 9, 'Blessed are the peacemakers!'"--British Museum online catalogue.
- Description:
- Artist identified as Hess and printmaker questionably identified as Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., One of twenty plates published as a bound set entitled: Hollandia regenerata., Place and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered "20" in upper left corner., Possibly published by Hannah Humphrey. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Holland: civil discord -- Emblems: hour-glass -- Personifications: Time -- Seven ears of wheat-corn as United Provinces., Title etched below image., and With: Letterpress explanation in French that includes appropriate texts from the Bible in Dutch and in English.
- Subject (Name):
- Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Hess, David, 1770-1843, artist.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Past op!!! [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 1936
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1097
- Collection Title:
- Carel Mondriaan papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Abstract:
- The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
- Description:
- Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
- Subject (Name):
- Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956, Mondriaan-van den Berg, Mary, and Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944--Portraits
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--Netherlands
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph of Mondriaans with Mondriaan
- Creator:
- Vree, Paul de
- Published / Created:
- c1979.
- Call Number:
- 2012 Folio 115
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- "De oplage werd gedrukt ... en beperkt tot vijftig exemplaren, genummerd van 1 to 50 en vijftien exemplaren genummerd van I tot XV ... Dis is nummer [blank]"--Colophon., Issued in case., and Nummer X/XV. Autograph of Paul de Vree. In case as issued. From the library of Henri Chopin.
- Publisher:
- Galerij De Zwarte Panter,
- Subject (Name):
- Chopin, Henri
- Subject (Topic):
- Concrete poetry and Visual poetry
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Poesia visiva : een keuze / Paul de Vree.
- Published / Created:
- Undated
- Call Number:
- Eei +674
- Collection Title:
- Reizen Van Cornelis de Bruyn, Door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, De Eylanden Scio, Rhodus
- Image Count:
- 1
- Subject (Topic):
- Voyages and travels --1600-1700
- Collection Created:
- Tot Delft, Gedrukt by Henrik van Krooneveld. 1698. Met Privilegie
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration of the inside of a church]