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 The fandango at the Theatre San Fernando, Seville / [design by] G. Doré, [engraving by] Gauchard. ([187-?])
Permalink Image Title :  Quadrilles, La Finale. Published Date : ca. 1829 Medium : Etchings Specific Material Type : prints Item Physical Description : print : etching, approx. 8.07 x 13 in. Notes : Caricature (cropped) primarily satirizing the hair styles of the day. Two couples performing a quadrille figure. The dancers are leaning back, their weight on their left foot; their right hand is extended toward their respective partner. The women are wearing towering coiffeures bedecked with flowers and bows. Note 2.) Four lines of verse by Milton: Sport, that wrinkled care derides/Fashion’s showing off besides/Come and trip it as you go/On the light fantastick toe. 
Permalink La valse à Mabille.  [Subjects] ([1870?])
Permalink Image ID: 1619180 La classe de danse = A dancing class : Monsr. Coulon’s Academy / etched by E. Salmon, [after a painting by] A. Ludovici.  [Monsr. Coulon’s Academy.] (Mar. 3, 1883) Creator : Salmon, Emile Frédéric, 1840-1913 — Etcher Additional Name(s) : Ludovici, Albert, 1852-1932 — Artist Published Date : Mar. 3, 1883 Medium : Etchings — Hand-colored Item Physical Description : 1 print : etching, hand col. 37 x 52 cm. Notes : Gift; Martha Swope; 2005. Note 2.) Image depicts 13 girls of varying ages in brightly colored dresses, standing in front of their dance teacher, imitating his movement (tendu devant). The dance teacher instructs from the opposite side of the room near a piano, gesturing with a cane. Two older women sit behind the line of girls, conversing with each othe
Permalink Image ID: 822815 The galop ; The Irish jig. (1883)