[Figure outside a castle]
1 drawing : watercolor heightened with opaque white on cream paper ; sheet 33.7 x 25.9 cm | Drawing shows a large stone building which appears to be a castle. A person stands in the foreground, and nearby ducks swim in a pool of water.
[Eye study, no. 1]
Title devised by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 476. Dates inscribed lower right of each image: Left eye (March 2nd/40) and Right eye (March 3rd/40) Identified by the Philadelphia Print Shop as: One in a series of thirty-eight works on human anatomy, including full figures, physiognomy and vignettes. An artistic exercise with an emphasis on art education. (DLC/PP-1995:140.476). Forms part of: John…
Contributor:
Smith, William Earle
Date:1840-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Nose and lip study]
Title devised by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 471. Initials and date inscribed between each image: W.E.S. March 11th 40. Identified by the Philadelphia Print Shop as: One in a series of thirty-eight works on human anatomy, including full figures, physiognomy and vignettes. An artistic exercise with an emphasis on art education. (DLC/PP-1995:140.471). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of…
Surveyor of customs
1 drawing : pen & ink, and ink brush. | Drawing shows a customs agent, seen from behind, reading a newspaper identified only as "Herald." Bayard Taylor traveled extensively in Europe between 1844 and his death in 1879.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
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Curious lava formations
1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor. | Illustration shows seven land formations, many of which resemble coral and sea shells.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Deputy
A deputy collector
1 drawing : ink brush. | Drawing shows a deputy collector, or civil servant, smoking as he leans on the back two legs of his chair, feet near a fireplace. Taylor traveled extensively in Europe between 1844 and his death in 1879.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Colored individuals along the road side
1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Drawing shows an African American slave woman leaning against a split rail fence along with three children. She says, "Oh I so glad you come, 'massa says he wish you were in da bottom of the sea--but you ain't in de bottom of the sea. You are here--Oh I so glad to see you."…
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Collector
1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Drawing shows a public documents civil servant asleep before a fireplace. He leans on the back two legs of his chair. Bayard Taylor made at extensive trips to Europe between 1844 his death in 1879.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Clerk
1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Humorous drawing shows a customs house clerk asleep at his desk. Bayard Taylor made extensive travels to Europe and Egypt between 1844 and 1878.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
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Appraiser
1 drawing : pen & ink and ink wash. | Humorous drawing shows a public documents appraiser, from behind, asleep at his desk, a frowning crowd has gathered on the other side of his window. Bayard Taylor made extensive travels to Europe and Egypt between 1844 and 1878.
Contributor:
Taylor, Bayard
Date:1844-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
John Sherman
1 drawing on wove paper : ink and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing is head-and-shoulders portrait of John Sherman (1823-1900), Republican Representative from Ohio, 1855-1861; Senator, 1861-1877, 1881-1897; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-1881. The drawing was created around 1846 while he was still a lawyer.
Date:1846-01-01
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[Fish]
1 drawing on wove paper : watercolor. | Calligraphic pen drawing shows a fish.
Date:1845-01-01
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[Castle Garden from the water]
1 drawing on wove paper : watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.
Date:1840-01-01
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Castle Garden in New York
1 drawing on wove paper : watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.
Date:1840-01-01
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[New York Harbor]
1 drawing on wove paper mounted on laid paper : watercolor and ink. | Landscape drawing shows men fishing off the pier, perhaps on Staten Island, looking across New York Harbor. Sailboats dot the water. Below the image, on the mount, various locations are identified in the drawing: the spire of Trinity Church from across the water, the Battery with Castle Clinton on the…
Date:1840-01-01
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Education inclined /
1 drawing : blue and red ink with wood-engraving paste-on. | Elaborate pen calligraphy surrounding a wood-engraving of a raft with a tent and campfire floating on a river, perhaps an image of Huck Finn.
Date:1845-09-11
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[View of Washington, D.C., looking northwest from southeast of the U.S. Capitol]
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache ; image 40.2 x 70.4 cm, on sheet 41.4 x 71.6 cm. | Drawing shows stables in the foreground and view of the city of Washington from southeast with the United States Capitol on the right, the White House in center background, and the Smithsonian castle and Washington Monument on the left.