Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan / by John L. Stephens
Image Count:
1
Description:
Facing p. 171.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Antiquities, Central America --Description and travel, Chiapas (Mexico) --Description and travel, Mexico --Antiquities, Mexico --Description and travel, and Yucatan (Mexico : State) --De
Subject (Topic):
Indian sculpture --Mexico, Indians of Central America, and Mayas --Antiquities
Includes 107 total plates: an engraving of the coat of arms of Hanau, two folded plates depicting processions of secular and ecclesiastical notables and 104 numbered engraved plates, with captions in Latin, showing a person in the dress of various places
Alternative Title:
Diuersarum nationum habitus and Diversarum na
Description:
Imperfect: some plates wormed, with slight loss of text or illustration. Vendor's description pasted in.
Publisher:
Apud Alciatum Alcia et Petrum Bertellium
Subject (Topic):
Clothing and dress--Early works to 1800 and Costume--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941 Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1893-1930
Published / Created:
1923
Call Number:
Eisenman 27
Image Count:
70
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Edition of 3000 copies designed by Lissitzky and printed in red and black by Lutze & Vogt, Berlin., Illustrations by Lissitzky: 1 photomechanical print (on t.p.) : reproduction of photomontage, b&w ; full-page. -- 25 additional pages are illustrated with various typographical devices and constructions, printed in red and black. "The book is created with the resources of the compositor's type case alone"--Lissitzky, quoted in Ex Libris., Issued in orange paper covers with typographical illustration (author's name and title) printed in red and black., Marsh -- Nash marsh -- Moĭ maĭ -- Svolochi -- Internat︠s︡ional -- Armii iskusstv -- Prikaz no. 2 -- A vy? -- Kadet -- Kuma -- Li︠u︡bovʹ -- K loshadi︠a︡m -- Solnt︠s︡e., Original wrappers. From the collection of Peter Eisenman., and Thumb indexed.
Publisher:
R.S.F.S.R. Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo,
Subject (Name):
Eisenman, Peter,--1932---Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Arts, Modern --20th century --Soviet Union, Constructivism (Art) --Soviet Union, and Letter-pictures
"Syntax sits beside a pretty dairymaid in a dairy, while a cat laps from a bowl of cream. They are watched from the doorway by a distressed woman, who unjustly suspects Syntax's intentions."--British Museum catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax and dairy maid
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional aquatint and statement of responsibility added, and with plate number changed from "Plate 11. Vol. 3" to "Plate 21". For the earlier state, which was published in the Poetical magazine on 1 October 1810 as an illustration to The schoolmaster's tour, see no. 11682 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 177., Probably a plate from an early edition of William Combe's The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque. Nearly all the plates from the 2nd edition of this work have the imprint "London, Published 1 May 1812 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand"; see Royal Academy Collection online catalogue, record no.: 06/4306., "Plate 21"--Upper right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
"The doctor, mounted on Grizzle, is beside a four-direction signpost on an open heath with a group of asses in the middle distance."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later version of the design
Alternative Title:
Doctor Syntax losing his way
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to Rowlandson from Grego., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: Combe, W. The tour of Dr. Syntax in search of the picturesque. London: R. Ackermann's Respository of Arts, 1812., "Plate 2"--Upper right corner., For an early version of the design, published in 1809 in Ackermann's The Poetical magazine, see no. 11508 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 176. For a later version of the design, published in 1813, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1866,1114.848., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Doctor Syntax.
Publisher:
Published 1 May 1812, at R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, Teachers, Horseback riding, Traffic signs & signals, and Donkeys
Title from caption below image., Text below title: From the original drawing, in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York., Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Dog. Are you good men and true? Ver. Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer ..., "Vide Much ado about nothing, Act 3d, Scene 2d.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin., and 1 print : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 41.5 x 48.2 cm, on sheet 50 x 59 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Title from caption below image., Text below title: From the original drawing, in the collection of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York., Lines of dialogue on either side of title: Dog. Are you good men and true? Ver. Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer ..., "Vide Much ado about nothing, Act 3d, Scene 2d.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark., One of a series of plates illustrating scenes from Shakespeare's plays, engraved after the drawings of Bunbury by various printmakers and published 1792-1796 by Thomas Macklin., and Mounted on canvas.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1794, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street