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 Image Title :  [The brownies’ snow man] Creator : Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924 — Artist Published Date : 1890 Medium : Wood engravings Original Source : From Another brownie book. Second book. (New York Century 1890) Cox, Palmer (1840-1924), Author.
Permalink Dises junge Tyger-Pferd welches zu Oranien-Polder einem Dorsse nicht weit von Delfft in der Provinz Holland gezogen hatt… (1745) Creator : Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767;Engraver Additional Name(s) : Löwenstern, Christian Ludwig, Freiherr von, 1701-1754 — Artist
Permalink The fandango at the Theatre San Fernando, Seville / [design by] G. Doré, [engraving by] Gauchard. ([187-?])
Permalink Image Title :  Habitans des Landes. Creator : Andrew, Best & Leloir — Wood-engraver Published Date : 1833-1909 Specific Material Type : Prints Item Physical Description : 1 print : b&w ; 16 x 23 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 in.) Original Source : From Le magasin pittoresque. (Paris : [s.n.] 1833-1909) .
Permalink Image Title :  Limodorum tankerwillae Alternate Title : Phaius grandifolius ; Limodore de Tankerwill [Swamp Lily ; Nun Orchid; Swamp Orchid] Creator : Redouté, Pierre Joseph, 1759-1840 — Artist Medium : Stipple engravings
Permalink Scilla campanulata  [Scille à fleurs en cloche [Bluebell]](1805-1816)
Permalink Image Title :  Comic readings. R. Boyne delint. C. Knight sculpt. Creator : Boyne, R. — Illustrator Additional Name(s) : Knight, Charles, 1743-1827? — Engraver Published Date : 1791 Medium : Etchings
Permalink Image Title :  Bringing home the bride. Creator : Steinle, Eduard von, 1810-1886 — Artist Additional Name(s) : Friedrich, Ludwig — Engraver Medium : Engravings Specific Material Type : prints Item Physical Description : 1 print : b&w ; plate mark 28.5 x 20 cm. Notes : Possibly depicts Sir Hilchen of Lorch (or Sir Ruthelm), who braved the “Devil’s Ladder” to rescue his bride from gnomes who had imprisoned her on Mount Kedrich.
Permalink Materialspaper Techniquesengraving Production personAfter Pieter Molyn Print made by Jan van de Velde II Date1616-1641Schools /StylesDutch  DescriptionShrove Tuesday. Nocturnal scene lit by a lantern held by a female figure standing outside the house at right, two children dancing in front of the doorway from behind which another two children and their mother are looking on, further revellers in the street at left; after Pieter MolijnEngraving I KNOW IT’S NOT SHROVE TUESDAY BUT IT IS TUMBLR TUESDAY! VOTE AND RECOMMEND HISTORICAL?
Permalink Image Title :  Five of hearts. Creator : Parsons, William Barclay, 1859-1932 — Collector Medium : Engravings Source : Playing cards: Engineering.
Permalink Image Title:  The female hemp. Alternate Title : Cannabis foemina. Creator: Blackwell, Elizabeth — Artist Medium: Engravings Specific Material Type : Prints Item Physical Description : 24 x 36 cm. Item/Page/Plate : Plate 322 Source : A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick.
Permalink Fred Becker - The Cage Abstract composition with bird. 1946Medium: Colour etchingInscription Content: Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Signed, dated, titled, numbered 2/5 and annotated: “ARTIST’S PROOF” and “FRED BECKER SCHOOL OF FINE ART WASHINGTON UNIV. ST. LOUIS 5, MO. 4 PLATE COLOR ENGRAVING”
Permalink Gillray, James, 1757-1815 Easing the tooth-ach. 1796. Engraving, colored. 107/8” x 85/8”.
Permalink Image ID: 822880 [Monkey watering dead trees.] (1761) Notes : Printed on image: “Exoticks.” Printed on border: “Tail-piece to the artists’ catalogue 1761.” “Engraved by J. Moore, from the original by Wm. Hogarth.” Foxing and abrasion on image; damage on border bottom center. Original Source : From The works of William Hogarth : with descriptions and explanations. Simpkin,) Hogarth, William (1697-1764), Author. Trusler, John (1735-1820), Illustrator.
Permalink Image ID: 834519 A Brocken witch. (1878)