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Photo, Print, DrawingUne faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrument Maker)- Contributor: Rössler, Michael
- Date: 1700
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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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Photo, Print, DrawingSte Cécile (Saint Cecilia)- Contributor: Bouillard, Jacques
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Drunken Silenus- Contributor: Orley, Richard Van
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Tentation de St. Antoine (The Temptation of St. Anthony)- Contributor: Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe
- Date: 1700
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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: Macfarlane, Seth - Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 352 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[The Recorder Lesson]- Contributor: Cattini, Giovanni
- 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
Collection Items: View 4,622 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[possibly Michel de La Barre, flutist and composer, ca. 1675-1745]- Contributor: [Possibly André Bouys]
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingWarhaffter Grund-Riss und eigentliche Abbildung des von denen Türcken und Tartarn eingeschlossenen Moscowitischen Lagers nebst denen dabey vorgefallenen Treffen worauf die Moscowitische Armee nach gross-erlittenem Hunger zu einem ihr nachtheiligen Frieden schreiten …
Translated title: True plan and actual picture of the Muscovite camp surrounded by Turks and Tatars and the battle that occured wherein the Muscovite army after experiencing severe hunger was forced into a peace treaty and all that one can report of what occured accurately and briefly described | Additional engraved caption title: Warhafftige vorstellung des durch den König von Schweden kluges Comando umringtes Moscowitisches Lager welches sich den 23 Julÿ per Ac[c]ord mit den Türckischen Gross Vezier in erherz. Friedens Tractat eingefallen | Translation of additional engraved caption title: True depiction of the clever military command by the King of Sweden to encircle the Muscovite camp which occurred on July 23 by treaty with the Turkish Grand Vizier 1 print : engraving ; sheet 44 x 38 cm on card mount 61 x 51 cm | Birds-eye view print shows plan of the four-day Battle of Pruth begun on July 18, 1711 along the Prut River near Stănileşti or Iași, Romania when joint Tatar and Muscovite troops were surrounded and forced to surrender to Ottoman troops. Includes locations of troops with a…- Contributor: Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
- Date: 1711
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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, DrawingUn faiseur de flutte / Ein Pfeiffenmacher (A Male Wind Instrument Maker)- Contributor: Rössler, Michael
- Date: 1700
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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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CollectionCities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 3,841 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[possibly Michel de La Barre, flutist and composer, ca. 1675-1745]- Contributor: [Possibly André Bouys]
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Flute Lesson- Contributor: Valck, Gerard,/52
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Musique Enragée (Mad Music)- Contributor: Possibly Jacob Gole
- Date: 1670
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CollectionCartoon Prints, American This assemblage of more than 800 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures. All of the prints meet two criteria: they were originally designed to express sentiments relating to civic life and government in the United…- Contributor: Clay, Edward Williams - Childs, John - Baillie, James S. - Magee, John L. - Robinson, Henry R. - Currier & Ives - Bucholzer, H. - Maurer, Louis - Currier, Nathaniel
- Date: 1766
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Photo, Print, DrawingBenkei; fukuro musha tsuru no hitokoe 2 prints : woodcut ; 62 x 32.2 cm (image), 20.8 x 13.8 cm (envelope) | Prints show the samurai Benkei, full-length, fighting a warrior; and the envelope shows a crane flying, carrying in it's beak a rod with tassels attached to each end.- Contributor: Okumura, Masanobu
- Date: 1711-01-01
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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: Andō, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Sadahide - Ikkei - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshikazu
- Date: 1615
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Photo, Print, DrawingEdmund A. Bowles collection of musical iconography, 1300-1985 Edmund Bowles (born 1925) is a musicologist specializing in the history of the timpani and other musical instruments. This collection consists of photostats and photographic prints of musical iconography dating from 1300 through 1985, the bulk of which was created during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. It is especially rich in representations of percussion instruments, particularly the timpani, and includes a considerable amount of…
- Contributor: Bowles, Edmund A. (Edmund Addison)
- Date: 1300
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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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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Flûte lui tint lieu de Lyre chez Admète (The Flute took the place of the Lyre at the home of Admetus)- Contributor: Duflos, Claude-Augustin-Pierre
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLes Plaisirs de Village (Village Pleasures)- Contributor: Ghendt, Emmanuel-Jean-Nepomucéne De
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingTōjin gyōretsu no ezu ichi 1 print : woodcut, color ; 31.5 x 46.5 cm. | Print shows a procession of Chinese men on horseback and on foot, some carrying a palanquin.- Date: 1711-01-01