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Engravings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

American statesmen portrait collection

 Collection
Identifier: 45
Abstract

Included are 933 engravings of American statesmen, including some broadsides, and 35 autographed letters.

Dates: 1826-1900.

English and French engravings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4684
Scope and content

33 English and French engravings from select novels and plays.

Dates: [18--?]

Gail and Stephen Rudin slavery collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4681
Abstract

The Gail and Stephen Rudin Slavery Collection consists of newspaper engravings, estate appraisals, wills, legal documents, manumissions, reward for capture of runaway slave advertisements, slave dealer and slave trade manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, slave taxation records, stereoviews and other records documenting the sale, hire, purchase and debt payment of slaves in 18th and 19th century America.

Dates: 1728-1973.

Hugh R. Mouat papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6607
Abstract

Newsletters and certificates pertaining to otterhounds and the Otterhound Club of america. Also includes engravings, an oil painting, and photographs of otterhounds collected by Hugh R. Mouat.

Dates: 1941-1980.

Jacques Reich engravings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4005
Scope and content

Engraved portraits by Jacques Reich include Andrew Dickson White (6 copies); John Paul Jones, James Madison, Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Charles Evans Hughes, and one identified portrait.

Dates: 1890-1911.

Ornithology print collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088346840]
Identifier: 6510
Scope and content

Four hand-colored ornithological engravings: "The Laughing Gull," Mark Catesby, from Birds of Colonial America, London 1784; "The Oyster Catcher," Mark Catesby, undated; "Paon de Mer," Count Georges Louis de Buffon, from the Natural History of Birds, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, ca. 1798; "La foulque," Count Georges Louis de Buffon from the Natural History of Birds, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, ca. 1798.

Dates: 1784-1798.

Portraits and pictures collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8415
Scope and content Portraits of significant European and American literary and historical figures, and pictures of various theatres in England, France, Germany, and the United States. Subjects include Otto von Bismarck, William Blake, Anne Boleyn, Daniel Boone, Joseph Brant, Robert Browning, Geoffrey Chaucer, Oliver Cromwell, astronomer Johannes Mayr (or Major; image dated 1610), President James Garfield, General James Oglethorpe (shown at the posthumous sale of Dr. Johnson's books in 1785), and many...
Dates: 1610-1900.

Portraits of Samuel Johnson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6815
Scope and content

Portrait of Samuel Johnson after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, engraved by William Doughty (mezzotint, 60 x 47 cm, dated June 24, 1779); and portrait of Johnson engraved by W.T. Fry, after a drawing by Abraham Wivell from the bust by Joseph Nollekens (engraving, 35 x 25 cm., undated).

Dates: circa 1779.

Walter W. Edwards collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938628]
Identifier: 402
Scope and content

The collection consists of an engraving of Syracuse, N.Y., ca.1855, one photograph of the Oneida Community, ca. 1866; and one volume containing a coin inventory/registry of S. G. Smith, 1868-1876.

Dates: 1855-1876.

William Alexander engravings

 Collection
Identifier: 4510
Abstract

Four engravings of scenes of China published in 1796: "View of the Suburbs of a Chinese City," "View of one of the Western Gates of the City of Pekin," "View of the Lake Pao-Ying where it is separated from the Grand Canal by an embankment of Earth," and "View of Pai-Loo, improperly called a Triumphal Arch, and of a Chinese fortress."

Dates: 1796