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A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains [graphic]

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Description: Three hand-colored lithographs of ornithological illustrations from A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains. Prints include depictions of Vanellus goensis (plate 78), Ibidorhyncha struthersii (plate 79), and Anser indica (plate 80). All illustrations present the birds from a side-profile while posed standing on grassy plains. The birds' feathers, markings, beaks, and legs are colored. All prints include their title in the lower center, with signatures on lower left reading, "Drawn from Nature & on Stone by E. Gould", and lower right reading, "Printed by C. Hullmandel." The print for Anser indica includes text below the title that reads "2/3 Nat. Size," indicating that the other illustrations are life-size depictions of the specimens.
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Production date: 1832.
Call number: priPEF 54
Provenance: Gift of Ke Lin Merit, December 2024. Ke Lin Merit's family acquired the prints from Lahaina Printsellers Ltd. in Maui, Hawaii.

Birds of America [graphic]

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A set of six giclée prints printed in 2023 of art created from 2015 to 2018 by artist John LaMacchia and illustrators Daniel (Dan) Cole and Peter David Scott. Each print includes images of birds reminiscent of John James Audubon's illustrations in Birds of America (1827) but are set in modern natural environments that have been littered by humans with garbage and plastic waste such as helium balloons, convenience store bags, prescription pill bottles, syringes, six-pack rings, and other examples of packaged goods and products. Titles include: Eastern Towhee (2015); Blue Jay (2016); Red Knot (2016); Double-Crested Cormorant (2016); Great Blue Heron (2016); and The Mourning Dove (2018). The prints are titled and labeled in cursive, and each print includes the edition number in the top-left corner, the printer's name in the bottom-left corner, and the illustrator's name in the bottom-right corner. Dan Cole is signed as the illustrator for five of the prints, and Peter David Scott is signed as the illustrator for one print, The Mourning Dove. The lower-right corner of each print also includes a chop (printer's mark) blind embossed with John LaMacchia's name and initials. This is the tenth edition out of the fifty that were printed.

priPEF 3

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Theodore Roethke [graphic]

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A sitting portrait of poet Theodore Roethke done in black ink by Don Bachardy. Roethke is depicted in profile looking towards his lower right while dressed in a single-button jacket and decorative tie. The illustration is signed in ink by Bachardy on the lower left. The verso of the item is signed "Theodore Roethke" in pencil on the lower right. Paper is embossed with a watermark reading, "Strathmore Seconds." The date of the item is based on additional portraits of Theodore Roethke in the same outfit and similar poses found in the Don Bachardy papers.

priPEF 110

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A free man [graphic], 1868

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A watercolor and graphite drawing depicting a formerly enslaved Black family with their animals outside their home. Illustration is centered by a Black man in the foreground chopping a log of wood to add to a pile of logs and kerosene. To his right is a small dog, and presumably his two children, a young Black girl dressed in red, and a Black boy in yellow holding a red bucket. The left side of the illustration is partially torn but depicts a horse in a fenced enclosure looking towards the family. The background includes a cabin with a smoking chimney in front of a hilly enclosure. The drawing's paper is fragile and deteriorating on all edges; a signature and date by the artist is partially visible on the lower right corner, reading, "Caleb Brown, 1868." Titled, "A Free MAN" towards the lower center of the drawing. Verso of drawing includes a partial portrait of a woman titled "Eliza," lithographed by James Baillie.

priPEF 47

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"Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" [graphic] / Interlandi

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An ink drawing by Frank Interlandi for the Los Angeles Times. The drawing is a paste-up which included a glued clipping of a revolver (now loose), originally placed on top of a drawn column labeled "God." Additional loose clippings include a typed paper slip of the title, and another typed slip reading, "Below Olympus... By Interlandi." The cartoon is signed and dated by Interlandi on the left corner of the image. Signed text towards the lower right of the image also reads, "With best wishes, from Frank Interlandi." The title, "Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" is written in blue pencil below the image. Verso of drawing includes a blue note from the Los Angeles Times with information regarding the original order request.

priPEF 5

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Colored man is no slacker [graphic]

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A color offset lithograph poster depicting an African American man and woman in embrace. The male partner is dressed in infantry uniform, while the female partner is dressed in a blue-and-white dress and spatterdashes. They are illustrated as holding hands and parting with one another, assumably the man enlisted to join the group of African American infantrymen marching with a 42-star U.S. flag behind them. The couple is centered below a doorstep on a walkway surrounded by columns, red and yellow roses, and white and blue flowers. The background includes blue skies with green foliage and trees. The title, "Colored Man is No Slacker" is printed in blue below the couple. Signed and copyrighted on lower left corner by artist, "1918. E.G. Renesch, Chicago."

priPEF 55

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Welbeck. Paragon un Barbe

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A hand-colored engraving depicting a view of Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire, the private home of William Cavendish, the Duke of Newcastle, from 1617 to 1676. The central image in the foreground depicts an African man holding the reins of a brown Barbary horse in front of the main façade and entryway of Welbeck Abbey. The background imagery includes branches, stones, trees, and flying birds. Text on top of the print reads, "Welbeck." Text on the bottom of the print reads, "Paragon un Barbe." To the right of the image, decorative text in French reads, "La Maison de Welbeck appartenant a Monseigneur le Marquis de Newcastle, le quel est dans la Province de Nottingham." Signed on lower right corner, by artist, "Abr. A Diepenbeke delineavit," and by engraver, "Petr. van Lisebelten sculpsit." Print was originally published as the sixth plate of Cavendish's "A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses..." (either 1658 print or later editions), and is the source of the approximate date.

priPEF 94

A century of birds from the Himalaya Mountains [graphic]

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