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