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Photo, Print, DrawingThe showman 1 print : stipple engraving ; sheet 37.9 x 27.2 cm. | Print shows a man standing next to his peepshow box, with hand extended to accept a coin from a young boy who is standing in front of the box with a young girl behind him; the children's mother or nanny stands next to them, holding an infant in her arms, she has…- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] 1 print : etching and engraving ; 36.3 x 47.3 cm (plate), 47.9 x 66 cm (sheet) | Print shows the Assemblée nationale législative meeting in a large room crowded with French citizens, many of them armed with swords and pikes, one holding aloft a victim's head on a pike, another firing a rifle in the direction of the Assemblée. Two large framed documents…- Contributor: Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean - Monnet, Charles - Helman, Isidore-Stanislas,809 - Helman, Isidore-Stanislas
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingPapiers monnoies et autres de la Republique Française 1 print : engraving with letterpress, hand-colored ; 59.4 x 49.9 cm (sheet) | Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795.- Contributor: Hunin, Joseph
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLiberty. In the form of the goddess of youth, giving support to the bald eagle 1 print on laid paper: stipple engraving and mezzotint ; 65.5 x 42.2 cm (sheet) | An allegory of American liberty. Liberty, represented by a maiden in the form of the goddess Hebe, offers a cup to an eagle descending from the upper left. With her right foot she treads on chains, a scepter, a key, and other implements of tyranny. At the lower…- Contributor: Savage, Edward
- Date: 1796
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Photo, Print, DrawingShakspeare [sic] - Midsummer Nights Dream Act IV Scene I--A wood - Titiania [i.e., Titania], queen of the fairies, Bottom, fairies attending & etc. / 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Simon, John Peter, -APPROXIMATELY 1810 - Fuseli, Henry - Simon, John Peter
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[DeWitt Clinton, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile] 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret De
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Eugene Lucet, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile] 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret De
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[William Duane, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile] 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret De
- Date: 1802-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingJohn Adams 1 print : stipple engraving on paper ; plate 308 x 225 mm, sheet 417 x 331 mm. | Print shows John Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in oval.- Contributor: Tiebout, Cornelius
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThomas Jefferson,
Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the U.S. 1st impression 1 print : stipple engraving ; sheet 20.8 x 13.1 cm. | Print shows Thomas Jefferson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in oval. The 1st impression may have been cropped, though retained the comma after his name, and re-issued after he became President in 1801.- Contributor: Tiebout, Cornelius
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Trompe-l'oeil of French revolutionary assignats with a portrait of a beggar laid on top] 1 print : engraving with letterpress, hand-colored ; 57.6 x 47.8 cm (sheet) | Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795, with a full-length portrait of an old man, possibly a beggar, facing left, wearing tattered clothing, holding a hat and leaning on a staff. The assignat in the lower right corner labeled…- Contributor: Hunin, Joseph
- Date: 1796-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingTriumph of liberty. Dedicated to its defenders in America 1 print on heavy laid paper : engraving ; 37.5 x 52 cm (plate), 46.8 x 59 cm (sheet) | Print shows an allegory of liberty flourishing and monarchy and tyranny in decline. In a wooded grove Minerva, with a shield bearing the arms of the United States and a flag emblazoned with stars, pours libations on an altar fire. Beside her are three…- Contributor: Renault, John Francis - Verger, Peter C.
- Date: 1796
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CollectionPopular Graphic Arts About 15,000 historical prints (ca. 1700-1900) created to document geographic locations or popular subjects and sometimes used for advertising and educational purposes. Most are by American printmakers (e.g., Baillie, Currier & Ives, Sachse & Co.), but publishers in many other countries are also represented (e.g., Antonio Vanegas Arroyo). Subjects vary widely, from city and harbor views, street scenes, and manufacturing plants to genre scenes,…- Date: 1700
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