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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, "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, [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, [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, [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, [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, [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, [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, [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

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