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[Masonic chart] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Humphreys.

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world.

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

P.S. Duval & Son, lithographers, 22 & 24 South 5th St. ab. Chestnut, P...

Print showing advertisement for printing firm with a scene entitled "The dream of heaven" depicting a sleeping woman being presented by heavenly beings with a basket of fruit containing the words "wisdom, the r... More

Martin Schongauer - [The Angel of the Annunciation] / MS.

Martin Schongauer, also known as Martin Schön or Hübsch Martin by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer, a younge... More

Hans Sebald Beham - [Madonna with the pear]

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 18. Pauli, 19. Coll. marks: Paul J. Sachs (Lugt, 2091) and Baron Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt, 2773). Hubbard Fund, 410096-1.

Leonardo da Vinci pitt. scul. e archi. Fiorentino / L. da Vinci pinsit...

Leonardo da Vinci, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus - Public domain dedication image

Cut within border. Woodcut by Lukas Cranach the elder, 1472-1553. Hollstein, 80 (second state); Bartsch, 59. Bradley Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.... More

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88 Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... More

[Cannons shooting fire tubes to frighten charging cavalry troops who a...

Illus. in: De la pirotechnia. [Veneto] : 1540. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 37.

Ukie itsukushima jinjya no zu - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a perspective view of the Itsukushima Shrine built over the water. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Oban... More

[Street scene in İzmir, Turkey]

Illus. in: Thesaurus exoticurum / Everhardo Gvernero Happelio. Hamburg : T. von Wiering ..., 1688, section 2, p. 205.

Une faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrum...

published by Martin Engelbrecht, engraver, 1684-1756 (artist notes) German (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Recto: l. l.: C.P.S.C. Maj.; l. r.: Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A.V.; u. r. :170.; l. c.: (tit... More

Ste Cécile (Saint Cecilia) - Public domain engraving

possibly after a drawing by Jean Dubois, le jeune, painter, 1645-1694, or by his brother, Louis Dubois, le jeune, painter, 1646-1702, of a painting by Pierre Mignard I, called Mignard le Romain, portrait and hi... More

The night mare, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a scantily clad woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers, as one of her arms hangs to the floor near a chamber pot written on it... "Source of N... More

Nami ni goshoguruma moyō no tachi bijin

Print shows a courtesan, facing left, wearing a waterwheel and waves pattern kimono.

Takenuki gorō, Kiyomasu Torii - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man, possibly Tokimune Soga (Gorō), uprooting bamboo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Pur... More

[Two lovers in a boat] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a man and a woman in a boat; the man is holding a small drum and appears to be serenading the woman beneath the moon.

[Teapot with cherry or plum blossoms]

Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Flower with stem and blossoms - Drawing. Public domain image.

Printed within border at top right: 19. Watermark on right side showing the top or bottom portion of letters. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Explanation of the view of Venice, exhibiting in the Panorama, Strand

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lee, James.

Falls of Niagara. View of the great pitch taken from below, see Forest...

Drawing shows great volumes of water cascading over a cliff as seen from below at Niagara Falls. See: "The Foresters : A poem descriptive of a pedestrian journey to the falls of Niagara, in the Autumn of 1804"... More

Woman archer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a well-dressed woman about to shoot an arrow, possibly at a tournament, with male and female archers observing, also shows a bell-shaped tent in the background. (DLC/PP-2001:029). Forms part of: Ma... More

United States & Macedonian - Public domain drawing

Preliminary drawing for an oil painting showing the sea battle between the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, and HMS Macedonian off the coast of Maderia on October 25, 1812. The original... More

Sweet pea, hyacinth, sun flower Thackara sc

Print shows a bouquet of sweet pea blossoms, hyacinths, and a sunflower tied with a ribbon, and with a butterfly or moth perched on the sunflower. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Popular graphic art print fil... More

Shiba atagoyama no zu - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows wide promenade and shrine buildings at the base of Mount Atago. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Chuba... More

Shya - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man, standing, holding a large bow and an arrow.

Le Valais / drawn by Major Cockburn ; engraved by R. Wallis.

Illustration showing Swiss mountain scene with village. Illus. in: Swiss scenery, 1820, opp. p. 89. Reference copy in LOT 4635.

Rose blossoms on stem with leaves

Typed on label attached to verso: This flower study was painted by William W. Thackara 1791-1839 water colors. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms par... More

[Domestic cat with two kittens inspecting something on the ground, a s...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Circus scene showing a man (magician?) standing on a table holding a c...

Woodside's drawing may be a copy after an illustration from an 1815 English edition of "Songs of the Chase." Inscribed in pencil on verso: This is a copy by John A. Woodside of a vignette cut in the book "Songs... More

Dubois & Stodart Hoogland sc - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a young woman sitting at and playing a "Dubois & Stodart" upright piano. Possibly an advertisement showing a type of piano manufactured by Dubois & Stodart. Signed on plate at bottom center. Forms ... More

Raven - Public domain engraving

Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: The birds of America / John James Audubon. 4 vols. London, 1827-1838, (Elephant Folio), Vol. II, Pl. 101. This record contains unverifi... More

The guitar / D.G. Johnson, sc. - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows a woman playing guitar as a man flirts with her. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 2. Library of Congress copy i... More

Preciosa D. Huntington ; J. Cheney, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a beautiful young woman, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair at a window, holding an open book on her lap as she looks out the window at the landscape. (DLC/PP-1998:151) Forms part of... More

[Winter scene] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Otto Barth.

[Autumn scene with castle] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

Signed lower left: Gust. Jahn, Wien. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

Utagawa Hiroshige - Tsubaki ni uguisu, Ando Hiroshige

Print shows a bird on a tree branch with camellia blossom. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Wakan rōei shū : Virile ... More

View from Mount Holyoke - A black and white drawing of a mountain scen...

Illustration showing view from the top of Mount Holyoke toward the valley and Connecticut River below.

Louis Haghe - Site of Cana at Galilee April 21st 1839

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 4. Surroga... More

David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Petra March 10th 1839 / David Roberts.

The ravine. Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 3, pts. 16-18,... More

[Unidentified portrait], Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.

Photographer unidentified. No image visible. Scratched on back of plate: 242. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams.

Family around Christmas tree, depicted in an oval with border showing winter scenes and the fruits and animals of a bountiful harvest. Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, Christmas supplement, 1848, p. 409.

A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.

Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03

A modern belle going to the rooms at Bath, British Cartoon Print

Print showing two porters carrying an elegantly dressed woman in a sedan chair. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 8895 Forms part of:... More

View of Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony & Major.

Prospectus Montis Sion - Print, Library of Congress collection

Gift; Louise McDanell Browne; 1948. Stamped on verso: Gift from Louise McDanell Browne in memory of her husband C.A. Browne, April 27 1948. The Library of Congress. Print torn on edges and bottom. Inscribed in... More

[Frontispiece showing young man seated, with Genius holding a plaque]

Mitchell collection of American book illustrations and portrait prints Formerly found in: PAGA 4 - 1921 : R1 - Tiebout Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1921:R01, Container 16.

His excellency George Washington Esq'r. captain general of all the Ame...

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing military uniform, gesturing with right hand holding a swagger stick, left hand resting on cannon barrel, military camp in the ... More

The great explosion in New-York, February 4th, 1850

Print shows firemen putting out a fire in the aftermath of an explosion in a building on Hague Street, New York City, and, with the help of other citizens, searching the ruins for victims. Includes a printed ac... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic print

Leinster House, Dublin - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Malton, James.

Albrecht Durer - Nemesis (the great fortune)

Allegorical figure of winged goddess of divine retrobution. Engraving and etching by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 72; Hollstein 72; Bartsch 77; Panofsky 184. Signed with monogram on plate. Coll. mark on ver... More

Sœur de la bonne femme de Normandie d'apres le desein de son fils Pier...

Print shows Print shows an elderly woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, holding a tulip in her right hand at her left shoulder, wearing a bonnet and scarf. Caption continues: Dédié àe Mons... More

[Mary Wollstonecraft, half-length portrait, facing left]

Photograph of a stipple engraving by James Heath, ca. 1797, after a painting by John Opie. Stamped on verso: Sewall Coll. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

P.S. Duval's lithograhpic & color printing estab! Artizans Building Ra...

Print shows a design for an advertisement for P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed as an illuminated manuscript leaf with large ornamental initial letter "D" showing a... More

[Sculpture of man and boy reading book]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of sculpture, statue, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young Girl and Death - Engraving, Public domain image

Cliché verre by Corot. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cliché verre; youth; Death; Artists works; Shelf.

Die Christnacht gez. u. rad. v. L. Richter

Print shows angels carrying a pine tree illuminated with candles and many cherubs clustered around the baby Jesus on a cloud above city buildings, with cherubs offering baskets of fruit and small toys. Printed... More

Miss Bateman, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Bear chase in Norway - Public domain drawing

Humorous drawing shows a bear chasing a sportsman who fires his rifle into the air as the bear chews the tails of his coat. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed ab... More

Lismore Castle: County Waterford, engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. John Berchmans]

Public domain photograph of stained glass window, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Livezey's mill, Wissahickon

Photograph shows mill with Livezey house, Glen Fern, alongside Wissahickon Creek in Pennsylvania. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library o... More

Central Park, New York, New York. Fountain design Richard M. Hunt, arc...

Landscape design drawing shows design for fountain at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AA... More

Young woman named Ida. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph originally in album on same page as photograph of Musician Charles C. Woodward of Co. C, 11th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, processed as LOT 14043-2, no. 920; photographs removed from album page ... More

Sawyer. Renshaw - Public domain portrait drawing

Portrait of a soldier & gentlemen. Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing sailor waving hat in front of American fla...

Addressed to Mr. Wm. E. Tingley, Harford, Susq. Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 29. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with fork, knife, plate, and cu...

Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: Military images. Henryville, P... More

[Civil War envelope showing angel holding American flag watching over ...

Addressed to Mr. William Field, Richwood, Union Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

[Civil War envelope showing sailor standing on anchor and holding swor...

Addressed to Mrs. Julia A[?], Elk Creek, Erie Co. Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Old Point Comfort, Va., Mar. 10. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collecti... More

Little Minnie - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3976

[Calendar for 1863], engraving, Library of Congress

An advertising calendar for a lithographic printer, with various patriotic motifs and a subtle commentary on the Emancipation Proclamation. The calendar, for 1863, is set within an elaborate architectural fram... More

Roses, and rosebuds - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5656

Washington, District of Columbia. House near Fort Stevens showing effe...

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Taking comfort - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6424

Teaming up the Grade at Slippery Ford, El Dorado County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 630. LOT subdivision subject: Mills (Lumber Mills, etc). This record contains unverified old data ... More

Little sunshine - Print, Library of Congress collection

5097 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left: F. Jones chro. Signed on stone on lower right: J.G. Brown 1868. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Title, publication statement, a... More

[Woman in a blue dress] - Public domain portrait engraving

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Through to the Pacific - Public domain scenic engraving

Public domain photograph of 19th-century landscape print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe] / Howell, 867 & 869 B'...

Notation on verso: "Mrs. H.B. Stowe." Label on verso: "From E.B. Fay, dealer in photographs, 100 Nassau St." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Aucti... More

Maryland - Scene in the Court-House at Annapolis - Trial of Mrs. Whart...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, v. 33, no. 847 (1871 Dec. 23), p. 236, bottom.

The goddess protection - Print, Library of Congress collection

8922 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ashmore, Sidney, copyr... More

The little mourner - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3981

Going into bath - Print, Library of Congress collection

D9620 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Jacoby, Max & Zeller,... More

Christ delivering the keys to St. Peter

6839 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kelly, T.

A vision of holy mass - Engraving, Public domain image

E981 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed above title: 226. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower left. Stamped and inscribed... More

The rose of beauty - Public domain portrait engraving

13878 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Lubrecht, Charles, co... More

Bailey's fine candies, 45 West Street, Boston

Trade card shows a smiling boy sledding down a snowy hill to promote the sale of Bailey's candy No. 204. DCRM(G) example 1B6 - Insufficiently descriptive title

Mischievous little kitties - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4513

Flocking for Freedom, Washington, D.C.

Caricature of leading women suffragettes, including Anthony, Stanton, Stone, Walker, Cozzens & Hooker, leading a gaggle of geese toward the U.S. Capitol. Color lithograph by Joseph Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 187... More

Joseph Pennell - [Green, blue and purple]

England, London. As Wuerth described, "View of London in dark blue and purple light under a sky richly lighted with the late evening sunset glow. Colors, blue, green, purple, rose, orange, white, black, gray, a... More

The porker and the sheep - Drawing. Public domain image.

Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.9). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Aesop's Fables.

The Vanderbills Mansions, 5th Avenue, New York

On mount: American Series. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Athletes. Flip flap. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows nine consecutive images of a man doing a "flip flap" or a back hand spring. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assum... More

Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...

Half lgth., facing left. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Catherine Cassatt] / Mary Cassatt., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Signed in pencil with note: "The artist's first drypoint". Breeskin, 37.

Souvenir of St. Valentine's Day

Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing a pink dress with large hat with flowers on top, and carrying a basket of flowers, in floral arch, with morning glory vines in the foregroun... More

[Girl holding tea pot and cup on tray]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information; possibly advertisement. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).