Featured blog: The Graphic Arts Collection

By John Jameson on Oct. 3, 2011, noon
Library Blogs African American portrait

The Graphic Arts blog highlights a variety of images and items from its collection, and invites comments from visitors to the website or to the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts in Firestone Library. A series of handpainted tintype portraits by unknown artists of African Americans from the late 1800s have been posted in the hopes that some could be recognized and identified. Blog:African American Portraits, 1860s-1880s(Link is external)

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The collection has more than 60 casts of faces of famous men and women from the 18th and 19th centuries, including Benjamin Franklin (above, possibly made by Jean Antoine Houdon), Napolean Bonaparte, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington and Isaac Newton. Blog:Life and Death Masks(Link is external)

Images courtesy of The Graphic Arts Collection of the Princeton University Library

The Graphic Arts Collection(Link is external) of the Princeton University Library(Link is external) includes more than 22,000 examples from the history of graphic design, printing and binding. In addition to regularly featuring selections in the Milberg Gallery for the Graphic Arts(Link is external) in Firestone Library, the collection highlights its exhibitions and new additions on its Graphic Arts blog(Link is external).

 

 

Library Blogs Tintype

The collection contains a copy of the first printed copy of “The Tale of Genji,” published with woodcut illustrations by an unknown artist in 1654. The novel was originally released on handwritten scrolls in the early 11th century. Blog: Summer reading: The Tale of Genji(Link is external)

 

Library Blogs Lincoln Funeral

A photo from an unknown artist taken on April 25, 1865, shows President Abraham Lincoln’s hearse being pulled past mourners in New York City as part of a 180-city route on the road to his burial in Springfield, Ill. Blog: Lincoln’s Funeral(Link is external)

 

Library Blogs Red Baron

Manfred von Richthofen, also know as the Red Baron, is shown receiving a medal from the German military leader Paul von Hindenburg in this 1917 photo by an unknown artist. Behind him is his trademark red Fokker Dr.1 triplane. Blog: Red Baron receiving medal(Link is external)

 

 

Library Blogs Liliputions

George Woodward and Thomas Rowlandson partnered to produce this series of etchings of Lilliputians in the early 1800s. The cartoons were published as sheets of strips that could be cut and hung in homes as whimsical borders. Blog: Woodward’s grotesques(Link is external)

 

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