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Rosemary and Rue

Description: Image of an advertisement for Rosemary and Rue by Amber featuring a woman holding a lyre or harp with roses in her hair and around her neck; flowering rosemary plant in foreground; heart shape in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1896
Call number: priJLC_ART_003273
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Stories of the Wagner opera

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Image of an advertisement for Stories of Wagner by H.A. Guerber; a nude woman with long flowing hair plays a lyre or harp at bottom left with a large sunburst behind her head and a circular banner listing Wagner's stories, including Rienzi, the Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, and the Mastersingers of Nuremburg; silhouette of a castle on a hill at top right.

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Rosemary and lavender

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Image of a young girl picking roses from a plant along a wall in a proof for a calendar page; empty boxes for July, August, and September flank the border.

priJLC_PRG_002158

Protest against the British government

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Image of a patriotic Irish message of protest against the British government; half-length portrait of Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet portrayed as a martyr with rays emanating from the portrait; large golden lyre with twining clover tipped with a pair of angels holding scrolls with the names of Irish patriots; heart at bottom center that reads "Liberty."

priJLC_POL_002672

La mode illustrée bureaux du journal. 56 rue Jacob, Paris toilettes de Mme. Breant-Castel. rue du 4 Septembre, 19

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Image of two women outdoors featuring current dress fashions; fashion details include long bustled skirts with tiered, pleated, and ruffled underskirts, gathers and draping, fitted bodices with puffed or flared sleeves and ruffled ribbon detail; accessories include gloves, parasols, and hat trimmed with flowers and ribbon; waterfall, trees, and urn with roses visible in background.

priJLC_FASH_002352

An idyl of the Arkansaw hills : human hearts

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Image of five head-and-shoulder portraits, in heart frames surrounded by flowers, for characters in the play the "Human Hearts" depicting a young man in a straw hat, captioned "Tom Logan with a human heart," at center; a hobo with a red-painted nose, captioned "Jem. Mason with an honest heart," at upper right; a girl, captioned, "Grace with an angel's heart," at lower right; a woman, captioned "Jeanette with a black heart," at lower left; and a boy wearing a cap, captioned "Limpy with a heart in the right place," at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama the "Human Hearts" written by Hal Reid and later directed by William E. Nankeville.

priJLC_ENT_000205

[Two proofs of classical women with cherubs]

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Image of a proof sheet for two cards featuring women in outdoors Classical dress with cherubs; cherub with a lyre near a sleeping woman at left; two women bathing cherubs in a fountain and hanging them up with ribbon in a tree to dry.

priJLC_PRG_002147

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