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 Beauty’s Lot, English, 1778
Permalink Image Title: Nude woman reclining in bed, being stabbed in the heart by Cupid, his hand guided by a skeletal spectre, “by The Ly. Caroline Lamb” Creator(s):Wrottesley, Julia Conyers Wrottesley, Baroness, d. 1860 — Former owner Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828 — Artist, Julia Conyers album, ca. 1769-1830. Medium: Watercolors
Permalink Image ID: 1213431 Eski-Krym. Razvaliny Khanskago sklepa  [Eski-Krym. Ruins of the Khan’s crypt.] (1851)
Permalink Image ID: 1157702 Octaua musculorum tabula. [Shows face with tongue sticking out]] ([1545])
Permalink “Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring” (1891) -  James Ensor
Permalink Image ID: 1152501 Cette planche représente le dernier ordre de Muscles….  [Muscle placement on the human skeleton.] (1773)
Permalink Image ID: 1157693 Title: Secunda ossium tabula [Human skeleton inspecting a skull and in deep thinking] ([1545])