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 Just saved. (1882) Wilson, Andrew, 1852-1912 — Author
Permalink Image Title :  Boeuf à la mode. Creator(s) : Leclerc — Engraver Lançon, Auguste André, 1836-1887 — Artist Published Date : 1906 Specific Material Type : Prints Item Physical Description : 1 print : b&w ; 18 x 23 cm. (7 x 8 3/4 in.) Notes : Printed on border: “278. Lancon. Französische Karikatur auf die mann=weibischen Moden um die Wende des 18. Jahrhunderts.” Written on border: “Cartoon of male-female fashion at turn of 18th c. French” Original Source : From Die Frau in der Karikatur. (Munich : Albert Langen, 1906) Fuchs, Eduard (1870-1940), Author.
Permalink Title: [Circus sketches: acrobats and circus animals] Creator(s): Rothengatter, Emil, artist Date Created/Published: [between 1800 and 1920] Medium: 1 drawing.
Permalink Chôju ryakugashiki = How to draw simple animals. (1797)
Permalink Image ID: 1400992 Chôju ryakugashiki = How to draw simple animals. (1797)
Permalink   Image ID: 1221643 An illustration of horses. (6—-8—)
Permalink Image ID: 821837 Insectivora. (c1880)
Permalink Image ID: 400784 Testudo &c.; The Loggerhead-Turtle. (1754)
Permalink Image Title:  “… That notable gambler, the Shark.” Medium: Engravings — Hand-colored Specific Material Type: prints Source: The Mermaid “at home!” illustrated with elegant engravings, on copper-plate. Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Rare Books Division
Permalink Image Title:  The hyena, with much betterness, rose to howl, etc. Published Date: 1857 Specific Material Type: Prints Item Physical Description: 1 print : b&w ; 15 x 13 cm. (5 3/4 x 5 in.) Notes: Written on border: “Jan 1857.” Foxing on image. Original Source: From Harper’s magazine. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1850-) . Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / Animals – humans
Permalink Image ID: 822822 [Dogs having a fist fight.] (1857)
Permalink Image ID: 822815 The galop ; The Irish jig. (1883)
Permalink Hungarian mountain sheep at the Smithfield Show. (1868)