#hand colored
Studio of Felice Beato :: Girl Dancing and Two Girls Playing Shamisens, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print - Hand Colored. | src Holden Luntz Gallery
Studio of Felice Beato :: Four Ladies in a Garden, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print - Hand Colored. Mounted on album page. | src Holden Luntz Gallery
Studio of Felice Beato :: Flower Seller, ca. 1860-1880s. Albumen print - Hand Colored. Mounted on “Star Photo Leaf Album”. | src Holden Luntz Gallery
A Book of Cyphers, or Letters Reverst (1683)
Our somewhat damaged copy of this 17th century work on cyphers or monograms features wonderful hand-coloring throughout. Some of the colors have faded with age, but this artistic personal touch still adds a layer of beauty to this fascinating little book.
http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b1118994~S39a
~Andrew
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The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) is renowned for its fantastic woodcut illustrations.
A total of 1,809 illustrations adorn the book, but only 645 woodblocks were cut. Most of the illustrations are re-used throughout the book - some as many as 11 times!
Above are six instances of the same illustration, as seen in the copy owned by the MSU Libraries. The same image is used to depict the cities of Damascus, Mantua, Perusia, Verona, Serraria, and Sena.
Apparently, the accuracy of the illustration wasn’t very important!
I love the half-hearted attempts at hand-coloring some of these woodcuts. It reminds me of another early book from our collection, the 1532Thurnier Buch.
~Andrew
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ca. 1860s, [set of ambrotype portraits of a young lady; on the left with paper and paste, on the right, in a more traditional pose cradling something in her lap]
viaJeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, Ambrotype Collection
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![ca. 1860-80s, [hand tinted, postmortem tintype of a young woman]via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photograph](https://64.media.tumblr.com/43ad5904049b45ae8ce0330611ad8a62/tumblr_nph87uMNu11qa51rdo1_1280.jpg "ca. 1860-80s, [hand tinted, postmortem tintype of a young woman]via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photograph")
ca. 1860-80s, [hand tinted, postmortem tintype of a young woman]
viaJeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, Tintype Collection
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One of our special collections’ truly great artists’ books is The Printing House in Hell, by Washington artist Mare Blocker. It’s derived from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and is one in an edition of 50 with images relief-printed but all individually hand watercolored. A stunning work (published by Blocker’s M Kimberly Press for Portland’s Charles Seluzicki Fine Books) which is all too relevant reflecting the chaos for which our world seems to be currently enmeshed…
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It’s been a mild winter and is that a butterfly flying around? Well, not likely outside in February, but it’s happening in our special collections in this sweet little hand-colored pamphlet of the classic 19th-century poem for children, The Butterfly’s Ball , and the Grasshopper’s Feast. This rare edition (only 3 libraries in the U.S. have it) was published in Baltimore sometime in the 1840s, and is authored by William Roscoe who became know for his work as an abolitionist…
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It’s Haturday in the special collections! Wait, what? Oh. Well, no cats here. But this week we ran across the House Wren in our double-elephant folio of Audubon’s Birds of America and were reminded to remind you that you can visit the special collections by making an appointment, and you can view the volume where this hat resides or any of the other 12,000 books in the collection. More info? Click here.
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On this day, 104 years ago, the last passenger pigeon on earth died at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha and she was almost 30 years old. John James Audubon, who depicted these beauties (one of 435 hand-colored copper engravings in our double-elephant folio Birds of America), could never have conceived they would be extinct a century later…
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One of our favorite books in our Native American literature collection within our special collections is In the Presence of the Sun by N. Scott Momaday, which has 16 letterpress-printed, hand-colored Plains Indian shield drawings, including these beauties…
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One of our favorite books in our Native American literature collection within our special collections is In the Presence of the SunbyN. Scott Momaday, which has 16 letterpress-printed, hand-colored Plains Indian shield drawings, including these beauties…
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It hasn’t been Caturday in the special collections for a bit, but it is today! This cat is been hounded by a pooch, with a bit of (not the most sophisticated) hand-coloring going on. Not sure how it turned out for the feline as it happened 152 years ago in one of our kids’ books, Pretty Pictures and Pleasant Rhymes for Dear Children (1866)…
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How to look stylish on a pancake. Man on pancake ice. British Antarctic Expedition c.1910 Taken by Raymond Priestley, meteorologist.
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Climbing Hydrangea - Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith Suburban Garden
Portland Garden Club Slide Collection, #18.
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View north up 5th Avenue, standing between Yamhill and Morrison, Portland - ca. 1923.
Arthur M. Prentiss Photographs, Org. Lot 301, No. 14204
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Charles Williams, 1801
“In her left hand she holds the “Gothic Novel” The Monk, written by Matthew Gregory Lewis. In the interior there are several references to love, such as the painting with Danaë on the wall, the pendulum with putti and two open books entitled The Kisses and Oeconomy of Love.”via
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