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Title
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Joan Nestle
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Description
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Standing beneath the banner for the conference
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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Black & white photographs
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Local Identifier
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gwenwald_003.jp2
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Title
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The Art Exemplar, Back cover
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Description
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Original publishers' blue cloth gutta-percha, or caoutchouc, binding with double filleted border in blind.
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Genre
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Caoutchouc bindings, Publishers' cloth bindings, Embossed bindings.
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Local Identifier
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Art_Exemplar_354
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Title
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The Art Exemplar, "Animalivm qvadrvpedvm omnis generis verae et artificiosissimae delineationes," front
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Description
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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?]).
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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intaglio prints, engravings (prints), line engravings (prints)
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Local Identifier
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Art_Exemplar_342
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Title
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The Art Exemplar, "Frederic Baron Trenck," front
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Description
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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.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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intaglio prints, etchings (prints)
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Local Identifier
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Art_Exemplar_332
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Title
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The Art Exemplar, [Pet dog], front
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Description
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Summary: portrait of a dog wearing a collar with its tongue out.
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Type
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still image
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Genre
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relief prints
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Local Identifier
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Art_Exemplar_316
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Title
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The Art Exemplar, "Specimen," front
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Description
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Summary: specimen for type fonts from roman, italic, and blackletter typefaces; four thin lines divide the page into four quadrants; each quadrant has three font specimens, twelve numbered type specimens total; at the center is a device for "E.P. Becker & Co. Patentees."
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Type
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text
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Genre
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specimens, typography
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Local Identifier
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Art_Exemplar_312
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