芥子園畫譜. Pt. 3

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  芥子園畫譜. Pt. 2

  Rare Books

  Part 2 of a four part set of woodblock-printed books; this part divided into four volumes. Presents the methods and principles of Chinese painting. The books cover a wide range of topics from trees, rocks, landscapes, flowers, plants, animals, insects, human figures and architectural designs. The preparation and application of colors on paper are also discussed. The mustard seed manual was highly influencial amongst artists and historians and became widely available throughout East Asia as evidenced by its prolific edition history through the 18th to 20th centuries. It is also an example of early Chinese multi-color woodblock printing.

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  芥子園畫譜. Pt. 4

  Rare Books

  Part 4 of a four part set of woodblock-printed books; this part divided into four volumes. Presents the methods and principles of Chinese painting. The books cover a wide range of topics from trees, rocks, landscapes, flowers, plants, animals, insects, human figures and architectural designs. The preparation and application of colors on paper are also discussed. The mustard seed manual was highly influencial amongst artists and historians and became widely available throughout East Asia as evidenced by its prolific edition history through the 18th to 20th centuries. It is also an example of early Chinese multi-color woodblock printing.

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  芥子園畫譜. Pt. 1

  Rare Books

  Part 1 of a four part set of woodblock-printed books; this part divided into five volumes. Presents the methods and principles of Chinese painting. The books cover a wide range of topics from trees, rocks, landscapes, flowers, plants, animals, insects, human figures and architectural designs. The preparation and application of colors on paper are also discussed. The mustard seed manual was highly influencial amongst artists and historians and became widely available throughout East Asia as evidenced by its prolific edition history through the 18th to 20th centuries. It is also an example of early Chinese multi-color woodblock printing.

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  The rapid growth of Phoenix

  Visual Materials

  The rapid growth of Phoenix, clearly evidenced by this photo, was in part due to the extensive irrigation system developed by the Salt River Project. [This photo is courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society.]

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  Sussex pt. 3

  Manuscripts

  This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.

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  Chinese medical ephemera

  Manuscripts

  This collection contains five woodblock printed documents about traditional Chinese medicine. There are two raffle tickets issued by the Tongren Jishantang charity clinic. The three other documents, issued by Jingxiutang are a prescription and advertisements for a cure-all remedy. These documents were likely circulated within the Chinese American community in the United States.

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