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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, DrawingAmor docet Musicam (Love teaches Music), recto / Het schaep dient voor den dam geschut (The sheep must be stopped before the dam), verso- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1712
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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: Bucholzer, H. - Currier, Nathaniel - Maurer, Louis - Magee, John L. - Robinson, Henry R. - Baillie, James S. - Clay, Edward Williams - Currier & Ives - Childs, John
- Date: 1766
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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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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flutist in garden with exotic birds]- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1700
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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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Photo, Print, DrawingAutels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altar Tripods and Musical Instruments)- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1700
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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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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: Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Sadahide - Ikkei - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Andō, Hiroshige
- Date: 1615
Collection Items: View 2,785 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[The Recorder Lesson]- Contributor: Cattini, Giovanni
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing"Songs in the Opera Calypso & Telemachus"- Date: 1712
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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: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 352 Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingSte Cécile (Saint Cecilia)- Contributor: Bouillard, Jacques
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flute playing Cupid]- Contributor: Jacob De Wit, or Witt
- Date: 1700
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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, DrawingLe Trio Flamand (The Flemish Trio)- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingTaka no ha moyō no tachi bijin 1 print : woodcut, color. | Print shows a courtesan wearing feather-pattern kimono.- Contributor: Kaigetsudō, Doshin, Active - Kaigetsudō, Doshin
- Date: 1712-01-01
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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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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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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, DrawingTakenuki gorō 1 print : woodcut, color. | Print shows a man, possibly Tokimune Soga (Gorō), uprooting bamboo.- Contributor: Torii, Kiyomasu
- Date: 1712-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDas Weisskunigs Erfahrung in Mummerei (Of the White King's Introduction to Mummery)- Contributor: Burgkmair, Hans
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingMay- Contributor: Bartolozzi, Francesco
- 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: 1557
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