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  SELECTED PRINTS FROM OUR COLLECTION
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FASHIONS, COSTUMES and FURNISHINGS              
       Spanish Costume Prints
  (mid-1800s - 1888)
       English Embroidery Prints  (mid-1800s)  
       Art Deco Fashion Prints from Art-Goût-Beauté 
(1920s)  
       Picturesque Customs of Italy  -
Bartolomeo Pinelli  (1816)   
       Scottish Clans - Tartans 
(1875)
       Scottish Clans - Portraits and Landscapes  (1875)       

       Vanity Fair Portraits - Statesmen and Sovereigns (1869) 
       Costumes and Accessories - Ancient Civilizations 
(c. 1890)
       Sweden and Norway Costume Prints
 
       The World in Pictures - Costumes  (mid-1800s) 
       Fashion Prints - Journal des Dames  (1888)  
       Fashion Prints - La Mode Illustrée
(1875-1886)  
       Costumes of All Nations   (1882) 
       Female Portraits  -  Maud Stumm  (1903-1908)  
       Furniture Prints by Albert Racinet  (1888) 

  NATIVE AMERICANS
       American Indian Pottery  (1898)
       North American Indian Prints   -  George Catlin  (1926)   
       Hopi Indian Katcina Prints  (1903)
       Native American Prints - Miscellaneous
               
  LITERATURE and PERFORMING ARTS
       Characters of Charles Dickens  -  Joseph Clayton Clarke   (c. 1890) 
       Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta Prints (1941)
       Gems of the Poets  -  Alexander Lydon  (1885)  
       Tours of Dr. Syntax - Thomas Rowlandson  (mid-1800s)  

       Women of Shakespeare (1866)  

  FOOD and COOKING 
       Cooking Prints from Mrs. Beeton (early 1900s)
       European Wine Label Prints  (1900s) 
       Cheers!   French Liquor Ads from the 1930s 
       Coffee and Tea Prints 
       Surf and Turf - Beef and Seafood Prints  (1911)
       Pasta, Bread and Cheese Prints     
       Recipe Prints  -  David Goines  (1968) 
       1931 Steamship Menus  (1931)     
       Story of Pasta  (1951)
      
  20th CENTURY PRINTS
       Children's Toys
- Walter Trier  (1920s)
       All the Year Round  -  Gustave Baumann  (1912)

MILITARY
       French Heraldry and Coats of Arms  (1877)  
       The Good English - Guy Arnoux  (1920s)
       French Soldiers at War - Guy Arnoux  (1917) 

HISTORY
      Liturgical Prints from Missale Romanum  (c. 1650s)   NEW 
      Coat of Arms of French Towns  (1949)
      Cries of London  -  Francis Wheatley  (1931)  
      Chinese Prints - Costumes, Arts and Trade  (1824)
      1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition Souvenir Prints

      Antique Japanese Prints  (1880s)  

  ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE and FURNISHINGS
       Principles of Architecture  -   Asher Benjamin  (1851) 
       Architecture Prints - Scientific America  (1880s-1890s)   
       French Furniture Catalogue  (1870s) 
       Architecture Prints - Sloan's Model Architect (1860) 
       Parks and Gardens of Paris (1861) 

  WORLD OF BUSINESS
       Trademark Prints - American Companies  (1924) 

        
Fortune Magazine Covers - 1930 (First Year of Publication) 
       Fortune Magazine Covers - 1931 
       Trade Cards - Au Bon Marché  (c. 1900)

  MAGAZINE ART          
       New Yorker Magazine Covers - 1947-1948  NEW 
       New Yorker Magazine Covers - January to April 1951
       Art Deco Advertisements from France   (1930s)
       Car Advertisements from the 1930s-1940s
       Chessie the Cat Railroad Advertisements  (1930s-1940s)

       1930s Watch Advertisements from France   
 
  THE ART OF JEAN GRANDVILLE
       Les Fleurs Animees (Animated Flowers)  (mid-1800s)
       Les Étoiles (The Stars) (mid-1800s)
       Metamorphoses (1864)

  SEASONAL
       Season's Greetings - Prints celebrating the Holidays


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New Prints This Month

 

Liturgical Prints from Missale Romanum

These liturgical prints are from an edition of the Missale Romanum (or Roman Missal) dating to the 1650s.

The Missale Romanum is the liturgical book containing the text used in the celebration of the Mass of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.  Included was the Sacramentary with the prayers, one or more books of Scriptural readings and the antiphons (responses, usually sung in Gregorian chant) to a psalm or some other part of the religious service.

The antiphon woodblocks presented on this page include a practice known as rubrication where a letter, word or section of the text is printed in red ink to highlight it.

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Characters of Charles Dickens

Dominica Prima Adventus

 

New Yorker Magazine Covers - 1947-1948

While The New Yorker magazine is known for the quality of its writing, many people also recognize the distinctive cover style and cartoons featured in the magazine.

We are pleased to feature a selection of original cover art from 1947-1948.  The covers are noteworthy for the range of their subject matter - sporting activities, taxes, life in cities - both small and large - and politics.

Where possible the name of the artist is identified.  The selections presented on this page include covers by two of the best known New Yorker artists - Constantin Alajalov and Rea Irvin (who also did the cover for the very first New Yorker featuring the fictional Manhattan dandy Eustace Tilley).

The appeal of The New Yorker covers is best summarized by the following description from a book on the history of the magazine:   The covers capture "A special moment, fleetingly observed".

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Embroidery Prints

June 21, 1947
(Rea Irvin)


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