Print History
Robert Bryden’s Carlyle Woodcut
The file record identifies this image as Robert Bryden's woodcut of Thomas Carlyle, made for *Some Woodcuts of Men of Letters of the Nineteenth Century*. The file…
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Printed objects considered alongside the records that preserve their context.
Print History
Popular Irish Stories: A Glasgow Chapbook
*Popular Irish Stories* appeared in Glasgow in 1850 as number 23 in a “New and Improved Series.” The National Library of Ireland catalogue describes it as a 24-page…
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Monardes’s Armadillo Woodcut
The Commons record identifies this image as a woodcut illustration of an armadillo from Nicolás Monardes's 1574 *Historia medicinal*. The illustration belongs to a…
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Tobacco on a 1574 Title Page
The 1574 woodcut of a tobacco plant appears on a title page in Nicolás Monardes's *Historia medicinal*. The file record identifies it as a plant illustration and…
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Monardes’s Sassafras Woodcut
The woodcut of a sassafras tree is identified in its Commons record as an illustration from Nicolás Monardes's 1574 *Historia medicinal*. The same book appears in…
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Hokusai’s Hawk and Cherry Blossoms
The cover image is catalogued as a woodcut diptych by Katsushika Hokusai, dated 1833–1834 and made in Japan. Its description places a hawk on an ornamental perch…
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The Title Vignette of Beauties of Glasgow
The title-page woodcut comes from an 1802 edition of *Beauties of Glasgow*. The National Library of Scotland's digitized copy identifies the book and preserves the…
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The Lenox Gutenberg Bible
The photograph shows the Lenox copy of the Gutenberg Bible at the New York Public Library. The NYPL identifies it as a Latin Bible printed in Mainz around 1455 and…
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An Illustration of Printing in La Colombe du Massis
The cover image is described as an illustration of book printing from an 1856 issue of *La Colombe du Massis*. The Pan-Armenian Digital Library catalogs the…
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Pope’s Day in Boston, 1769
The cover file is catalogued as a woodcut broadside of “Pope's Day” in Boston, dated 1769. That caption identifies a subject and year but does not name the printer,…
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