Special Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

This week we present some lovely hand-colored calligraphic flourishes by California illustrator Mallette Dean for the opening chapters in California writer Gertrude Atherton‘s 'The Splendid Idle Forties: Six Stories of Spanish California.' Learn more: https://t.co/xiEozAtgX6

At UW-Madison Special Collections there are extensive natural history materials, including this wonderful folio titled 'A Monograph of the Pittidae, or, Family of Ant Thrushes' by Daniel Giraud Elliot. This is the first edition, published in 1863. More: https://t.co/G1oVzot7Rx

These prints were printed directly from the original blocks and included in Howard Phipps’s article “A Painter's Approach to Wood-engraving” in 'Matrix 8,' Winter 1988, inserted as a separate 8-page signature between pages 80 and 81. Learn more: https://t.co/B462avWzLz

This letterpress-printed wood type specimen sheet is included in Elizabeth Harris’s article “Typographic Collections at the Smithsonian” published in 'Matrix 8.' Harris was the Curator of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian from the 1970s to 1997. Learn more: https://t.co/Bb2Im0ZGAp

Shown here are images from a German edition of Josephus’s Jewish War, 'Des Fürtrefflichen Jüdischen Geschicht-Schreibers Flavii Josephi Sä[m]mtliche Wercke' published in Tübingen by Johan Georg Cotta of the Cotta family publishing firm in 1763. Learn more: https://t.co/fpjmbEFtLS

It’s #NationalDogDay! What better way to celebrate than sharing one of the most famous and beloved dogs: Snoopy! These images are from 'He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown!' by Charles M. Schulz, published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company. Learn more: https://t.co/ViWFnWfSMo

The chromolithograph is from our 2-volume set of 'Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty,' by the late-19th-century director of the Milwaukee Public Museum Henry Nehrling, and published in Milwaukee by George Brumder from 1893-1896. Learn more: https://t.co/q22081zEaP

The Dickcissel (Spiza americana) is mainly a bird of the American Midwest. Max has seen and heard them in his rambles around the Midwest, but never seen them here in Wisconsin. This chromolithographic plate is from a painting by the noted American ornithologist Robert Ridgway.

These two prints come from our recent acquisition '2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them,' printed in 2020 at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies. Learn more: https://t.co/CvPblPtx38

These images are from a lovely 17th century French version of Aesop's Fables titled 'Les fables d'Esope Phrygien' by I. Baudoin, published in Paris by Jean duBray in 1649 that was illustrated with wonderful copperplate etchings. Learn more: https://t.co/YJPTY0PqWl