A collection of six gaming counters or monetary tokens from the gambling houses and clubs of Georgian London. Four were made by John Milton (signed "J. Milton f." or "J.M" on the smaller pieces) with an ace of spades encircled with the quote "Honi soit qui mal y pense", wreathed and crowned. The two others by Milton have on the obverse the initials "S.F." (S. Fiuri, in Bury Street St. Mary Axe) and the date "1 May 1792" and a value of "XII" or "VI". The two other Milton counters are marked "S&L" indicating Smith & Lockwood and the other "JL" for John Lister in Haymarket. Another small token in white metal issued by the "Cocoa Tree" with the value on the obverse "One guinea". The last counter in gilt-brass issued by "Free Mason Tavern" and marked "462' in the center and on the obverse "M. Richold Guina." with laurels above and below
A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince's Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small linked circles around the perimeter. The 1788 token for a box at Covent Garden is the only token with a hole in the center
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and For further information, consult library staff.
Erratic ecologies field station and Emergent apparatus for speculative research
Description:
BEIN 2020 +3: Edition no. 1; with copper printing plate, as issued. Signed by the artists., Title from container., "Comprising sixty two copper-foiled episodes; two lengths of solid copper bar; one block of quarried Stony Creek granite; one archival blueprint"--Container., and "A published event ... on the occasion of their 31 days as Ruth Stephan Fellows at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscipt Library, Yale University, CT"--Blueprint.
Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in October 1921. Incised at the back of the base: "MVW Fuller" and a copyright symbol
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. and Title from Renée Ater, Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate; and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King-Street, Boston, 1773). The engraving was made after a portrait attributed to African American slave and artist Scipio Moorhead. As in the engraving, the words "Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston" appear around the perimeter of the plaque. It is not signed or dated; the attribution to Meta Warrick Fuller was made by Grace Nail Johnson, sister-in-law of the donor
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century., Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), African American poet in Boston, Massachusetts., Lettering in English., and Title from lettering on plaque.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Obverse: In center, full-length portrait of Jeffery Dunstan facing right; legend inscription with Dunstan's name and title as Mayor of Garrat. Reverse: In center, six lines of inscription with T. Hall's address and date, the penulitimate line is much larger letters than the others and the legend inscription advertising Hall's taxidermy services
Alternative Title:
T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token., Text from reverse side: T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795. The first artist in Europe for preserving birds, beasts, &c., Edge: plain., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Hall
Subject (Name):
Hall, Thomas (Taxidermist), Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797,
One pressed dried rose which had been worn by the English poet George Gordon Byron on his lapel when he toured the frigate U.S.S. Constitution, anchored off Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, on May 21, 1822. The rose was given as a memento to Catharine Potter Stith, who was on board the ship with her husband Townshend Stith; the following day Byron sent her a volume of Goethe's Faust accompanied by an autograph note. The faded red rose consists of the blossom only, minus stem and leaves. It was later surrounded by a piece of dark brown paper (8.5 x 26 cm) with a black ink border and inscription: "Moore's Life of Byron." Both were pressed between two sheets of glass and enclosed in a two-part wooden frame, painted black with a gilded liner and held together by means of mending plates and screws. A paper tag (9 x 3 cm) was tacked to the top of the frame and bears the inscription in ink: "Dr. E. Brandegee / Berlin / Connt." Dr. Elishama Brandegee (1814-1884, Yale 1833, 1838 MD) was the husband of Ann Florence Stith Brandegee (1821-1901) and son-in-law to Catharine Stith
Description:
George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron (1788-1824), English poet., Catharine V. Potter Stith was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1795, the daughter of Richard Cheslyn Potter (1759-1828) and Catharine Miercken Potter (died 1831). She married Captain Townshend Stith of Petersburg, Virginia, in Philadelphia on September 22, 1818, and in June 1819 moved with him to Tunis where he served as U.S. Consul until his death at Gibraltar on November 2, 1823. Their first child, Bolling Buckner Africanus Stith, was born in Tunis in 1820 and died in Leghorn (Livorno) in 1822. In May 1824 Catharine Stith returned to the United States with her daughters Ann Florence Crokat (1821-1901) and Victorina (1824-1836), settling in Philadelphia where she opened a school for girls in 1826. She was the author of Thoughts on Female Education (Philadelphia: Clark & Raser, 1831), several musical compositions, and a short story published in Godey's. In 1834 she moved with her daughters to New Haven, Connecticut, where she worked as a music teacher. Catharine Stith died in New Haven on March 20, 1839., Title devised by cataloger., and Inscriptions in English.
Subject (Name):
Brandegee, Elishama, 1814-1884., Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Stith, Townshend, Mrs., 1795-1839., and Constitution (Frigate)