Antique Memes

Wanderings through university and library image collections; etchings, leaflets, prints, lithographs, relics of yore. Items digitized from before the digital age. Let's remember what we forgot. Lest we forget.

ANTIQUE - collectible old item: a collectible decorative or household object that is valued because of its age, the style, traditions, and qualities of ancient times, old and often valuable, of interest to collectors

MEME - a cultural characteristic passed down through generations: any characteristic of a culture, e.g. its language, that can be transmitted from one generation to the next in a way analogous to the transmission of genetic information

Permalink Great peacock moth in larval and pupal forms, R. P. Nodder, 1800
Permalink An Arizona cowboy. Frederic Remington, 1861-1909. Remington’s rough riders.
Permalink Bedside table by Christian Woo, art work by Joshua Van Dyke, lamp by David Weeks Studio (looking strangely like an alien lifeform) via The Walkup.
Permalink Dogs meat seller, 1820. Created by Thomas Lord  Busby. Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis. 
Permalink Holt Castle, Wales. 
Permalink Entrance court with spring flowers, 1870, England From Rustic adornments for homes of taste. Groombridge, 1870) Hibberd, Shirley (1825-1890), Author.
Permalink Spring brings to life the bulbs that have been hiding beneath soggy soils, the buds on sidewalk hedges, and the nude shades of fresh, farmer’s market eggs in this week’s MIXOLOGY which pairs EGGS with ROOMS - CLICK HERE.
Permalink Watercolor wash of pale salmon white floods out from the middle of paper with a tiny head of Fuller with loose hair at the center presented on a dark green/ blue ground/ In the foreground an assortment of artist tools: palette, triangle, compass, inkwell, t-square, brush, paint tube, as well as a top hat, are animated with stick figure arms and legs in various antic poses of worship and amaze in the light flooding from by A Loïe Fuller, 1895.
Permalink [Jerome Paturot pursued by flannel nightcap and sleepwear] (1846)
Permalink How to live in a high-brow, Gothic den featuring, French graffiti artist, MISS VAN, who breaks the formal tone of the space. More at The Walkup in this week’s bedroom breakdown.
Permalink [Assiette] (pivoine). ([1866-1878]) Collected by Samuel Putman Avery, etched by Félix Bracquemond.
Permalink [Owl and goose talking.] Brooke, L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie), 1862-1940 — Artist From Johnny Crow’s garden: a picture book
Permalink [Infallible Charm against poison.] (1818) Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816.
Permalink For those vintage aficionados out there: I don’t mean to romanticize conquistadors, the age of exploration, the spread of disease, and so forth – but I do love the typeface, arched masonry, wrought iron balustrades, styling and reserved grandeur of colonial villas. Here’s a guide on how to live in “THE NEW WORLD.”
Permalink A Southern Valentine by Jay Campbell Phillips, 1873