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Barchas, Cecile M.,. Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Title: Portrait prints of scientists, 1473-1898.

Photographic prints from the Samuel I. and Cecile M. Barchas collection include the following scientists: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Peter Apian, F. Arago, Aristotle, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, F.W. Bessel, Johann Elert Bode, Robert Boyle, James Bradley, Tycho Brahe, David Brewster, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Nicolaus Copernicus, Humphry Davy, J.B. Delambre, René Descartes, John Dollond, Leonhard Euler, Michael Faraday, John Flamsteed, M. de Fontenelle, Jean Baptiste Fourier, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Pierre Gassendi, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Edmond Halley, Caroline Lucretia Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Kepler, J. L. Lagrange, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande, Pierre Simon Laplace, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, U. J. Le Verrier, Nevil Maskelyne, Gerhard Mercator, Charles Messier, Isaac Newton, W. Olbers, Ptolemy, René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Angelo Secchi, Edwin A. Stevens. James Watt. One of the prints is unidentified. Biographical sketches from the periodical, The popular science monthly, are about Angelo Secchi, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Caroline Lucretia Herschel; another insert is about David Brewster. Artists and printmakers are also identified. These include: Pierre-Michel Alix, Charles Beaubrun, Julien-Léopold Boilly, Louis, Boilly, Johann Friedrich Bolt, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicholas Gabriel Dupuis, William Thomas Fry, Jules Gaildrau, Franz Gareis, Johann Elias Haid, Frans Hals, Benjamin Holl, William Holl, Thomas Hudson, Godfrey Kneller, Thomas, Lawrence, James Lonsdale, Frederick Mackenzie, Jean Denis Nargeot, James Posselwhite, Henry Raeburn, Denis Auguste Marie Raffett, John Russell, Edward Scriven, Ambroise Tardieu, James Thomson, Charles Albert Waltner.

ArchivalResource: 78 items (68 prints, 10 p. biographical reprints.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122447673 View

Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841. Edward Screvin letter to unidentified recipient, 1811.

Title: Edward Screvin letter to unidentified recipient, 1811.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750153597 View

Doctor Johnson and the fair sex; a study of contrasts, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Title: Doctor Johnson and the fair sex; a study of contrasts, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Printed book with approximately two hundred inserted prints relating to thetext, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 1v. (.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01795/catalog View

Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1668-1866 (inclusive);, 1738-1836 (bulk).

Title: Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1668-1866 (inclusive); 1738-1836 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 6 volumes (1.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01780/catalog View

Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Title: Boswell's Life of Johnson : including Boswell's Journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a journey into North Wales, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1464-1897 (inclusive), 1724-1874 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 31 volumes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01782/catalog View

John Frederick Lewis collection of autographs of engravers, Bulk, 1775-1850, 1721-1914

Title: John Frederick Lewis collection of autographs of engravers Bulk, 1775-1850 1721-1914

John Frederick Lewis was a Philadelphia lawyer, philanthropist, and collector of writing samples. This collection contains letters, receipts, and other documents by British engravers. Most of the material was written in England between 1775 and 1850. Many of the letters discuss artistic matters and contain references to well-known engravings.

ArchivalResource: 3.43 Linear feet

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_FLP_FLPRBDENGRAVERS View

Society of Dilettanti (London, England). Society of Dilettanti drawings, prints, and letters, 1806-1880.

Title: Society of Dilettanti drawings, prints, and letters, 1806-1880.

A collection of drawings and prints reflecting the Society of Dilettanti's work in recording and publishing ancient sculpture and architecture, primarily of Greece. The main portion comprises drawings and printed proofs for three publications: Specimens of antient sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman; Antiquities of Ionia; and The unedited antiquities of Attica. Also included are letters by the archaeologist, topographer, and member of the Society, William Gell, written mainly during his travels to Greece and Asia Minor. Series I comprises 253 drawings and prints executed in preparation for Specimens of antient sculpture, including 20 drawings for plates that are not part of the final publication. The objects came from the private collections of several members of the Society, mainly Richard Payne Knight and Charles Townley. The first volume was published in 1809, the second volume did not appear until 1835 when most of the sculpture previously in private collections was placed in the British Museum. The prints are proofs for plates in the second volume, with several proofs for a plate frequently present. The presence of multiple proofs with various annotations provides a glimpse into the process of selecting and captioning of plates. Most of the prints are stipple engravings; most of the drawings are wash drawings. The surviving drawings and proofs for the second volume show how much of the work was completed before Knight's death in 1824. Series II contains 14 drawings and two printed proofs for Antiquities of Ionia, including ten wash and ink drawings and two etchings for plates in part III, and two engravings for plates in part IV. The plates depict views of the ancient cities Knidos [Cnidus] and Patara, and sculpture fragments found at Priene. Series III consists of ten architectural drawings, including nine drawings for The unedited antiquities of Attica. Six of the drawings are for plates in chapter II on Eleusis: Propylaea, two are for plates in chapter III Eleusis: inner vestibules, and one is for a plate in chapter VI Rhamnus: Temple of Nemesis. Also present is an additional drawing of the floor-plan of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum for an unknown publication. Series IV includes six letters by the English archaeologist, traveler and topographer Sir William Gell (1777-1836) addressed to Sir Henry Englefield, Secretary of the Society, written during the 1812-1813 expedition to Greece and Asia Minor. Gell writes about archaeological work at Eleusis and Corinth, mentions drawings he made at these sites, and comments on the newly discovered Aeginetan sculptures. The letters are illustrated with small sketches. An additional letter by Gell was written in 1834 from Naples to Lady Blessington in London about their common literary interests. Also present are five bank drafts by Gell, dated 1806-1809.

ArchivalResource: 28.64 linear ft. (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123429849 View

Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932. The John Frederick Lewis collection of autographs of engravers, 1721-1914, bulk 1775-1850.

Title: The John Frederick Lewis collection of autographs of engravers, 1721-1914, bulk 1775-1850.

John Frederick Lewis was a Philadelphia lawyer, philanthropist, and collector of writing samples. This collection contains letters, receipts, and other documents by British engravers. Most of the material was written in England between 1775 and 1850. Many of the letters discuss artistic matters and contain references to well-known engravings. Significant correspondents include: William Bromley, R. H. Cromek, F. J. DuRoveray, Thomas Holloway, John Landseer, James Neagle, Luigi Schiavonetti, Edward Scriven, James Stow, Isaac Taylor, Charles Edward Wagstaff, and Charles Turner Warren.

ArchivalResource: 3.43 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84338811 View

The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Title: The Robert Cushman Butler Collection of Theatrical Illustrations

Engravings, lithographs, manuscripts, music covers, books and other printed materials primarily relating to 18th and 19th century English and American theatre..

ArchivalResource: 3 containers; 60 oversize folders; 15 linear feet; Approximate 3,000 items

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv48578 View

Society of Dilettanti drawings, prints, and letters, 1806-1880

Title: Society of Dilettanti drawings, prints, and letters 1806-1880

A collection reflecting the publishing work of the Society of Dilettanti, an English group that promoted the study of ancient sculpture and architecture, primarily that of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Drawings and printed proofs relate to three of the Society's major publications: ; ; and . Specimens of Antient [sic] Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities of Ionia Unedited antiquities of Attica

ArchivalResource: 28.64 linear feet; (14 boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3x0nf1r5 View

Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive);, 1738-1866 (bulk).

Title: Johnsonian Miscellanies, extra-illustrated, 1538-1900 (inclusive); 1738-1866 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 9 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01781/catalog View

Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Title: Letters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., collected and edited by George Birkbeck Hill, extra-illustrated, 1413-1900 (inclusive), 1775-1839 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted manuscripts and prints relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector Robert Borthwick Adam.

ArchivalResource: 10 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01783/catalog View

Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Title: Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, extra-illustrated, 1738-1840 (inclusive), 1784-1837 (bulk).

Printed books with hundreds of inserted prints and manuscripts relating to the text, compiled and bound by collector William Upcott.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01796/catalog View