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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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CollectionFine Prints About 85,000 prints created as art works, ca. 1450-present (most dating between 1800 and the present). Prints by American printmakers and artists (e.g., Paul Revere, Mary Cassatt, Jim Dine, Joseph Pennell) predominate, but creators in many other countries are also represented (e.g., Albrecht Dürer and Marc Chagall). Subjects vary widely, for example, portraits, religious themes, historical events, and street scenes.- Date: 1450
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CollectionCase Books Consists of more than 2,200 books and serials spanning the period 1550 to the present, with most published between 1840 and 1970. Illustrations are the featured aspect of these works, and many of the volumes contain original visual materials such as engravings, woodcuts, lithographs, fine photogravures, and photographic prints. The subject matter and country of origin vary widely. Representative examples include: The Designs of…- Date: 1550
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Pan and Apollo]- Contributor: Bisschop, Jan De
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Young Man playing a Viola da Gamba and Woman in a Landscape]- Contributor: Lefebre, Valentin
- Date: 1600
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.- Contributor: Sagan, Carl - Druyan, Ann - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Fluteplayer- Contributor: Coryn, or Quirin, Boel, or Bol
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe Flutiste debout (The Flutist, standing)- Contributor: Coryn, or Quirin, Bol, or Boel
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingDe vlugt van 't pausdom uit Engelant 1 print (broadside) : etching with letterpress. | Print shows Louis XIV, with peg leg, riding a bear, leading the flight of catholicism from England; he moves to draw his sword to strike a lion, as a cock on his head is attacked by an eagle. Father Petre follows riding a large dog harnessed to a wagon carrying the royal family, James II, the…- Contributor: Hooghe, Romeyn De
- Date: 1689
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe scientifik three horned doctor, Father Peters, a great labourer, in works of Darckness 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 30 x 42 cm, sheet 30.4 x 42.5 cm.- Date: 1689
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Photo, Print, DrawingRecorder Player- Contributor: Bloemaert, Cornelis
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingPastorale - Flute Playing Shepherd- Contributor: [Dc?]
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingAdoration of the shepherds- Contributor: Marinus
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingSchreiber collection of European book illustrations Wilhelm Schreiber (1855-1932), German printmaking scholar and author of the major reference work Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle (1891-1911), organized a personal study collection of over 20,000 book illustrations produced during the 15th through the 18th centuries. The Library acquired this collection in 1929 along with Schreiber's handwritten inventory. (Source: Melville guide)- Contributor: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig
- Date: 1400
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Young and Elder Goatherd- Contributor: Vorsterman, Lucas
- Date: 1600
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CollectionThe Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."- Date: 1581
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CollectionFine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library of Congress appreciates the financial support provided by Nicihibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation) to scan 1,100 of the Ukiyo-e prints.- Contributor: Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Sadahide - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Ikkei - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Andō, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Kuniteru
- Date: 1615
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Drunken Silenus- Contributor: Orley, Richard Van
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Young and Elder Goatherd- Contributor: Vorsterman, Lucas
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Allegory]- Contributor: Probably Theodore Greuter, Active in 1648
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Flute Lesson- Contributor: Valck, Gerard,/52
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingSoo D'oude Songen Soo Pepen De Jongen (As the old sing, so the young twitter)- Contributor: Danckerts, Cornelis, Before 1656
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Landscape with Flute-playing Shepherd]- Contributor: Lefebre, Valentin
- Date: 1600
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Photo, Print, DrawingArlequin sur l'Hippogryphe a la croisade Lojoliste Armée van den heylige lingue voor der jesuiten monarchy. 1 print (broadside) : etching and engraving. | Print shows Louis XIV as the harlequin, with pegged leg, riding on the "hippogryphe" or jackass, leading a holy crusade. He wears a large biretta that also fits over the head of James II sitting behind him; they both wear armor. Hanging from the saddle is a shield bearing the monogram IHS of the Society of…- Contributor: Hooghe, Romeyn De
- Date: 1689