Lithograph reproduces Von Schmidt's painting that depicts the battle at Little Bighorn; in foreground center U.S. soldier holds up regimental flag surrounded by dismounted troopers under attack by mounted Native Americans; villages and natural landscape in distance. The lyrics to Garryowen, the 7th U.S. Cavalry's regimental song, are printed below the image
Description:
In facsimile of artist's hand below image:On left, artist's proof; on right: for the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library / Eric Von Schmidt '89., Title from caption below image., and Within image of original painting in lower right, signed: Von Schmidt, 1971-76.
Reproduction of a drawning by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground a European American on foot hunting buffalo with a long gun. The scene is of the rolling, grassy plains with bison in the distance. The upper two-thirds of the image are of sky
Print repeats three images of a trout, one below the other, with a line of the title text (divided into three lines) below each image; fish face left. Text in red ink
Description:
"Designed by Whitehead & Whitehead and printed on Fabriano paper in an edition of 800 copies by W. Thomas Taylor as the Book Club of Texas annual broadside for 1989." and Title from text within the image.
Publisher:
Book Club of Texas
Subject (Geographic):
Texas.
Subject (Topic):
Fishing, Trout fishing, Broadsides, and Linoleum block printing, American
Manuscript volume, in the hand of an unidentified nun at the monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa, containing copies of Italian translations from the Revelationes, Sermo Angelicus, and other texts from the Liber Caelestis of Saint Bridget. On the colophon, the scribe identifies herself as a professed nun of the Order of Saint Bridget, and states that the work was completed on July 26, 1626. The manuscript also includes circa 27 contemporary devotional engravings placed throughout the text, many with identifiable artists and publishers from Italy, France, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. The engravings depict Christian figures, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the archangel Michael, and various saints; and scenes from the New Testament, including from the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ
Description:
Bridget of Sweden (approximately 1303-1373) was a mystic and saint. She experienced visions beginning in childhood, the records of which were gathered and translated into Latin. They are collectively known as the Revelationes and Liber Caelestis., The Birgittine convent known as Scala Coeli was founded in Genoa, Italy, circa 1406. Nuns at the convent translated the writings of Saint Bridget into Italian., In Italian; colophon in Latin., Title from first leaf., Includes table of contents on six leaves at end., Colophon, leaf 317r., and Binding: Contemporary red leather over wooden boards; front and back covers have blind tooled rules and rolls, with a central figure of a female saint and the letters "M S B G" tooled in gold; spine with raised bands and a blind tooled flower in each compartment; front edge originally had two leather straps with brass clasps, and is now lacking one strap and clasp. Later (19th century?) paper spine label with manuscript inscription: "[illegible] S. Brigid. Cavate dei libri delle sue rivela[tion]. Opera di una monaca della ordine stisso[?] per comodite delle Sorelle 1626".
Subject (Geographic):
Italy., Italy, and Sweden
Subject (Name):
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373., Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373, Jesus Christ, John, the Baptist, Saint, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, and Michael (Archangel)
Subject (Topic):
Devotion to, Devotion, Nuns, Saints, and Religious life and customs
BEIN FRAadvertisement62: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards. and The poster presents four aces with quotations and illustrations of Jeanne d'Arc, Vercingetorix, Bonaparte, and Boulanger. A symbol appropriate to each figure is placed in the upper right hand corner of each card.
Publisher:
A. Clavel, 89, cité d'Hauteville
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431, Vercingetorix, Chief of the Arverni, -46 B.C., Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Boulanger, Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie, 1837-1891