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 [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 Fuller.]  						 					(1895)
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Title: [Artist and his wife]
Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1880 and 1920]
Medium: 1 drawing : watercolor and gouache ; sheet 31 x 43 cm.
Summary: Drawing shows a man seated at a table while drawing a landscape view in a sketchbook and a woman seated by a piano reading a music sheet titled “La Traviata,” with portraits and sketches hanging on wall in background.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-23030 (digital file from original item) LC-USZ62-31002 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: DRWG/US - Unattributed, no. 57 (A size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA