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Title: Joan Nestle
Description: Standing beneath the banner for the conference
Type: still image
Genre: Black & white photographs
Local Identifier: gwenwald_003.jp2

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Animalivm qvadrvpedvm omnis generis verae et artificiosissimae delineationes," front
Description: Inscribed: "Animalivm. qvadrvpedvm. omnis. verae. et. artificiosissimae. delineationes, pictore Marco Gerardo Brugense: Ao. 1583. -- Gedruckt t'Amsterdam by Frederick de Witt in de kaluerstraet in de witte Paskaertt." Summary: engraving of several quadruped mammals including an elephant, elk, monkey, bear, boar, camel, donkey, etc. surrounding a lion with a bearded man standing on its back, casting a net behind the gathered animals; illustration is cut out from a larger page and cut at an angle top to bottom near the center; the left half has been washed and the right half has not, leaving them with lighter and darker paper, respectively. Presumably engraved title page of Animalium quadrupedum omnis generis verae et artificiosissimae delineationes (Amsterdam: Frederick de Witt, [between 1650 and 1706?]).
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints), line engravings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_342

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Frederic Baron Trenck," front
Description: Inscribed: "Frederic Baron Trenck." Summary: two prints of the same plate, one impression faded and the other dark and clear; portrait of a man in eighteenth-century dress chained to the wall of a dungeon standing over a grave stone with a skull and cross bones and the name "Trenck;" surrounded by a rustic architectural border.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, etchings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_332

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Pet dog], front
Description: Summary: portrait of a dog wearing a collar with its tongue out.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_316

Title: The Art Exemplar, "A Sikh Orderly," front
Description: Inscribed: "A Sikh Orderly". Summary: two men in traditional Sikh dress, one wearing shoes and one with bare feet; no ground or background; printed on green paper.
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_302

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Rien n'est vraiment a craindre ...," front
Description: Inscribed: "Debost et Des Mottes à Paris." Summary: a quote, printed in blackletter with floriated initial "R", reads, "Rien n'est vraiment à craindre, que le péché; tout autre sujet de crainte n'est qu'un épouvantail. S.J. Chrysost."; border in style of medieval illumination.
Type: still image
Genre: color prints (prints), lithographs, color lithographs, chromolithographs, typography
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_277

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Be not faithless but believing," front
Description: Inscribed: "Be not faithless but believing. -- B". Summary: scene of Saint Thomas touching Christ's wounds after the resurrection, set inside a gothic arch; surrounded by multi-colored acanthus border on a gold-color background.
Type: still image
Genre: holy cards, color prints (prints), lithographs, color lithographs, chromolithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_273

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Charlecote Great Hall], front
Description: Summary: the great hall of Charlecote, in Warwickshire, England; a woman stands at a table in the center of the room with a large print or drawing; a second woman in the background is entering the room with a young girl.
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs, lithotints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_283

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Mal'aria], front
Description: Inscribed: "Hébert pinx. -- Imp. Bertauts, r. Cadet, 11, Paris. -- Pirodon lith." Summary: a raft carrying six figures floats down a shallow stream, passing a high bank; a man stands at the bow holding a long pole for steering; a woman in the back holds a sleeping infant; Embossed stamp below reads "Les peintres vivants".
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_287

Title: The Art Exemplar, [River bank with jar], front
Description: Summary: landscape of a river bank with trees and a jar on the shore; signed in bottom left corner with undeciphered monogram.
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_291

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Lithograph Imitation of a Wood Engraving," front
Description: Inscribed: "Lithograph Imitation of Wood Engraving." Summary: vignette of three cherubs on a black background in an oval, framed by decorative border set on a baroque mantel.
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_295

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Specimens of Lithography," right half, front
Description: Right half of printed leaf folded and bound in at center. Title reads, 'Specimens of Lithography.' Inscribed: "Lithographers &c. 87, Hatton Garden." Summary: an advertisement from Stannard & Rae for their printing and design with sample ornaments, calligraphy, letterhead designs, etc.
Type: still image
Genre: specimens, labels (identifying artifacts), lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_271

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Specimens of Lithography," left half, front
Description: Left half of printed leaf folded and bound in at center. Title reads, 'Specimens of Lithography.' Inscribed: "Printed from Stone by Stannard & Rae." Summary: an advertisement from Stannard & Rae for their printing and design with sample ornaments, calligraphy, letterhead designs, etc.
Type: still image
Genre: specimens, labels (identifying artifacts), lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_270

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Facsimile of two French letters], front
Description: Summary: two facsimile letters in French dated "9 Mars" and "28 juin 1760".
Type: still image
Genre: facsimiles (reproductions), lithographs, transfer lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_264

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Sketch by J. Fraser Redgrave," front
Description: Inscribed: "Sketch by J. Fraser Redgrave. -- Palmer's Glyphography ] [ S. Bentley and Co. Typ." Summary: horse with rooster and hen in stables or barn.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_229

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Paper Label," front
Description: Inscribed: "When this Ream or Parcel is opened, the word 'OPENED' must be written upon the Label, or the Label must be otherwise cancelled. Penalty for neglect £10." Summary: paper label with blanks to write Mill number, amount of paper, weight of paper, the date and date of charge, and officer signature; printed in black and red with the red creating a symmetrical, stylized vine pattern over the letters and dotted background.
Type: still image
Genre: labels (identifying artifacts), relief prints, color prints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_237

Title: The Art Exemplar, "New Westminster Bridge," front
Description: Inscribed: "New Westminster Bridge. -- Designed by P. N. Page." Summary: view from water of rowboats and sailboats going under Westminster Bridge on the Thames River; Palace of Westminster and "Big Ben" clock tower in background.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints, woodcuts (prints), color woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_228

Title: The Art Exemplar, [The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist], front
Description: Inscribed: "Parmens Delin. -- E. Kirkall fe. -- E Collectione Nobilissimi Ducis Devoniae." Summary: composition in Italian Renaissance style with two women and two baby boys with a bearded man with a staff in the background; likely Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist; chiaroscuro print after sketch, produced from etched plate, mezzotint plate, and relief block for tint, not the traditional method of multiple woodcuts.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints, woodcuts (prints), intaglio prints, etchings (prints), engravings (prints), mezzotints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_224

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Prayer at niche tomb], front
Description: Inscribed (partially defaced): "E. Richardson, Sc." Summary: gothic niche tomb with a standing monk and another man kneeling to pray; another figure lays down nearby; a crucifix in the background; illustration is marred to make it unusable, i.e. cancelled, with a wide grid of diagonal white lines.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints, woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_184

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Paul Preaching in the Synagogue of Thessalonica," front
Description: Inscribed (in letterpress): "Paul Preaching in the Synagogue of Thessalonica. ... Acts XVII, verses 1-3." Summary: Saint Paul the Apostle and many men debating and reading from scriptures in a scroll book in the synagogue at Thessalonica, i.e. Thessalonikē, as described in Acts 17:1-3.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints, woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_178

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Woodcut from De Re Metallica, Liber Nonus], front
Description: Summary: diagram depicting a furnace for smelting along with other tools and laborers performing the work described in the original accompanying text.
Type: still image
Genre: relief prints, woodcuts (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_174

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Reproductions of early woodcuts], front
Description: Inscribed: "Egyptian Brick-Stamp, B.C. Made of wood and supposed to have suggested engraving on wood."; "Old Playing-Card, 15th Century. As done by the stencil, preparatory to hand-coloring."; and "St. Christopher, 1423. Fac-simile of one of the earliest known wood-cuts, drawn and engraved by an Artist of Augsburg." Summary: reproductions of three woodcuts -- an ancient Egyptian brick stamp (inscribed in hieroglyphs "Amonoph, beloved of Truth" according to text column 88); a playing card in the suite of hearts; and St. Christopher.
Type: still image
Genre: lithographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_168

Title: The Art Exemplar, "The Soldier's Toast," front
Description: Inscribed: "Photographed from the life by Lake Price. -- The Soldier's Toast. 'And let me the Cannikin drink, drink.' Othello. -- 'Photographic Art Treasures.' -- London, Published June 1857, by the Photo-galvano-graphic Compy. Holloway. -- Printed by R. Holdgate." Summary: portrait of seated man in costume with sword and tankard, presumably Iago from Othello; top corners of the image area rounded.
Type: still image
Genre: photomechanical prints, photogalvanographs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_156

Title: The Art Exemplar, [River with bridge in distance], front
Description: Summary: albumen photograph, faded; view looking down a tree-lined river toward a beam bridge in the distance.
Type: still image
Genre: photograph
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_142

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Gems of the Great Exhibition (Exterior)], front
Description: Summary: crowd in front of the Crystal Palace at the time of the Great Exhibition. Top corners of the print rounded.
Type: still image
Genre: color prints (prints), Baxter prints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_130

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Stachys sylvatica, L. Hedge Woundwort," front
Description: Inscribed: "Nature Printing. -- Labiatae (Juss.) Stachys sylvatica, L. Hedge Woundwort. -- Printed in colours by Bradbury & Evans, Patentees, Whitefriars, London." Summary: nature print of hedge woundwort, printed in color with green for the stem and leaves and brown for the root.
Type: still image
Genre: nature prints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_123

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Portrait medallion], front
Description: Summary: print of a portrait medallion; depicts the bust of a bearded man in profile, in classical dress, and crowned with laurel.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_118

Title: The Art Exemplar, "Perkins, Fairman, & Heath. Siderographia," front
Description: Inscribed: "Perkins, Fairman, & Heath. Siderographia. -- Hardened Steel Plate." Summary: several engraved designs for bank notes including a classical frieze, profile, and portraits; elliptical designs; and interlocking circle designs.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints), steel engravings (visual works), siderography
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_114

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Sailboats and Mountains], front
Description: Summary: several sailboats and rowboats in a river beneath mountains.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, etchings (prints), aquatints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_109

Title: The Art Exemplar, [The Finding of Moses], front
Description: Inscribed: "N. Poussin pinxt. -- W. Cooke sculpt." Summary: depicts infant Moses being rescued from the Nile as described in the Book of Exodus.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, etchings (prints), aquatints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_104

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Cottage with water wheel], front
Description: Summary: woman in provincial dress sitting with her back to the viewer, facing a water mill attached to a stone and half timbered cottage with a thatched roof; trees and mountains in background.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, etchings (prints), aquatints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_102

Title: The Art Exemplar, "[Paradise Lost] Book 4 line 866," front
Description: Inscribed: "Designed & Engraved by J. Martin, Esqr. -- Book 4 line 866. -- London, Published by Septimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond Street, 1825. -- Printed by Chatfield & Co. -- Proof." Summary: the archangel Gabriel with a squadron of angels stands on a jagged mountain, guarding the West gate of Eden, looking over a barren slope where the devils Ithuriel, Zephon, and Satan, Prince of Hell, approach from the edge of a wood; as in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 866 and following.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints), mezzotints (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_094

Title: The Art Exemplar, "The Witty Dorinda," front
Description: Inscribed: "The Witty Dorinda. -- Her wit is penetrating clear and gay; / But let true judgment and right reason sway / For when she rallies, 'tis with so much art, / We blush with pleasure, and with rapture smart. -- London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs Jany. 20; 1787." Summary: three-quarter length oval portrait of a young girl in immense hat with long curly hair; arms crossed at her stomach.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, crayon manner prints, à la poupée
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_090

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Kneeling woman in Grecian costume], front
Description: Summary: woman kneeling, head hung with hand raised to her face in gesture of despair; dressed in a long chiton with one breast exposed, she holds a trumpet in her right hand that rests on the ground; she wears an armband around her right biceps.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, crayon manner prints
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_086

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Rural scene with house], front
Description: Summary: rural scene of house with smoking chimney and a man herding three cows; background of a river transversed by an arch bridge with mountain in the distance.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, line engravings (prints), etchings (prints), soft ground etchings (visual works)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_080

Title: The Art Exemplar, " 'He gathered together all the arms … '," front
Description: Inscribed: "Designed by Henry Alken. -- Engraved by John Zeitter. -- 'He gathered together all the arms, not excepting the broken pieces of the lances, & tied them on Rozinante [sic]; so taking him by the Bridle, & his Ass by the halter, he went on toward the Village. &c.' -- London, Published Sepr. 1831, by Charles Tilt, 86 Fleet Street. -- S.H. Hawkins, Printer." Summary: Don Quixote, beleaguered, rides the donkey while Sancho Panza walks beside, and Don Quixote's horse carries armor; a small town beyond and hills in background.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, line engravings (prints), etchings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_076

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Landscape with sitting men], front
Description: Summary: etching of windy landscape with four male figures sitting on the ground (digging?) and two other figures standing to the right talking in front of a fenced-in house; trees blowing in the wind and mountains in the background.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, line engravings (prints), etchings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_070

Title: The Art Exemplar, "The Lord's Prayer and Crucifixion," front
Description: Inscribed: "Designed & Engraved on Steel by R. Williamson, London. -- Price 2s. on India. -- The Lord's Prayer, Engraved by Rd. Williamson, in the above Circle (size One Eighth of an Inch Diamr.) and Crucifixion". Summary: depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the two thieves in a central, circular medallion, surrounded by an architectural border inhabited with the figures (clockwise from top) of Charity, Hope, a depiction of The Last Supper, and Faith.
Type: still image
Genre: steel engravings (visual works)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_066

Title: The Art Exemplar, [A barge on a river with a town beyond, India], front
Description: Inscribed: "W. Purser delt. -- Pubd. by R. Ackermann. London. -- J. Carter sculpt." Summary: scene in South Asia of men gathering near boats at a riverbank in the foreground; a large ghat stretches along the far side of the river in the background, where figures walk on a staircase that goes directly into the water.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, line engravings (prints), etchings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_062

Title: The Art Exemplar, [Mr. G.V. Brooke as Iago], front
Description: Summary: cancellation proof of "Mr. G.V. Brooke as Iago;" full-length portrait of actor Gustavus Vaughan (1818-1866) in costume as Iago from Shakespeare's play Othello; frame arched at top; scratched through with a deep black "X" over his face and zig-zag line over his body.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints), line engravings (prints), cancellation proofs
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_058

Title: The Art Exemplar, "The Last Embrace," front
Description: Inscribed: "Painted by T. Uwins, R.A. -- Engraved by Chas. Rolls. -- The Last Embrace. From the Original Picture in the possession of Charles Wilkes, Esq." Summary: A nun embraces her crying mother at the door of a convent as she says goodbye; the new nun's father, brother, and sister stand to the left; nuns stand behind her; a girl to the right holds a tray with cordials; below image, embossed seal (London Art-Union?) blind stamped in center below engraving and above title.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, engravings (prints), line engravings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_048

Title: The Art Exemplar, [View of boardwalk, pier, and lighthouse], front
Description: Inscribed: "Etched by J. C. Allen". Summary: view of boardwalk, pier, lighthouse, with boats in the water.
Type: still image
Genre: intaglio prints, line engravings (prints), etchings (prints)
Local Identifier: Art_Exemplar_040

Title: Carte de Visite, John Call Dalton, Jr.
Description: Carte-de-visite of John Call Dalton (1825-1889), an American physiologist. Photograph by James Wallace Black. John Call Dalton, Jr. is misidentified on the verso of the card as his brother, Edward Barry Dalton.
Type: still image
Genre: cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Local Identifier: nyam_cv_dalton

Title: Indigenous Exhibition
Description: Copy negative of a painting by Gifford Beal of the Indigenous Exhibition, February 1918. Left to right: Guy Pène du Bois (suit), George Luks (in apron giving a brushwork demonstration), Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Jo Davidson, Paul Dougherty, Bob Chanler (with gingham apron).
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg.0114

Title: First Annual Sculpture Exhibition Installation
Description: View 2 of 3. Photograph of an installation from the First Annual Sculpture Exhibition, March 1928.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg.0108

Title: Stock book A #1
Description: Whitney Studio Galleries stock ledger documenting events regarding works of art and organized by artist. Includes memoranda and administrative records inside book. Artists and organizations include: Bruce Buttfield, Oscar Bluemner, Pamela Bianco, Henri Burkhard, Peggy Bacon, Arnold Blanch, Lucile Blanch, Louis Bouché, Alexander Brook, Reeves Brace, George Biddle, Glenn Coleman, Blendon Campbell, A. E. Cederquist, Cincinnati Museum Association, Mabel Dwight, Stuart Davis, Elsie Driggs, Guy Pène Du Bois, Ernest Fiene, Paul Fiene, Kenneth Frazier, Karl Free, John Bernard Flannagan, Emil Ganso, Harry Gottlieb, Anne Goldthwaite, Louis Gerstenheim, Léon Hartl, Edward Hopper, Isabella Howland, Rosella Hartman, Max Kuehne, Georgina Klitgaard, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Z. Kruse, Richard Lahey, Reginald Marsh, Hermon More, Elizabeth Olds, Dorothy Varian, Isabel Whitney, Nan Watson, William Zorach. Only cover is digitized. Title taken from front cover verso.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg.0625

Title: Spring Exhibition Installation
Description: View 13 of 13. Photograph of an installation view from the Spring Exhibition held March 17-29, 1930. This exhibition is also known as The Flower Exhibition.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg.0109

Title: Circus in Paint Installation
Description: View 1 of 4. Copy negative of the installation from the Circus in Paint Exhibition, April 1929. Decorations by Louis Bouché.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg.0119

Title: Still Life
Description: Photograph of the painting "Still Life" by Pamela Bianco, from the Traveling Exhibition, 1927-1928.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg0018

Title: Circus in Paint Installation
Description: View 3 of 4. Photograph of the installation from the Circus in Paint Exhibition, April 1929. Decorations by Louis Bouché.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: wscg0120

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