Finding Aid for the Barry Moser Wood Engraving Blocks and Prints, ca. 1984
Finding Aid for the Barry Moser Wood Engraving Blocks and Prints, ca. 1984
Collection number: 1383
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
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- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, 1994
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, August 2002
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of Barry Moser, 1985.
- Pennyroyal Press, purchase, 1985.
- Frankenstein wood engraving blocks (Boxes 1-9).
- The Hunting of the Snark Wood engraving blocks (Box 9).
- The California Dante (Box 10).
- The Inferno drawings and illustrations (Box 10).
- Purgatorio illustrations (Box 11).
- Paradiso illustrations (Box 11).
- Wood Engraving Blocks by Barry Moser Illustrating The Gold Rush (Collection 1537) . Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Moser, Barry, Gold Rush: Twenty-Five Wood Engravings (Call number: *NE 1112.M67 A67 1985). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Moser, Barry, Wild Bill Hickock: Resident of Deadwood, 1876 {pencil and ink drawing}. Collection 99. Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Moser, Barry, Portrait of Lewis Carroll (Collection 99). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Moser, Barry, Woodcut Portrait of Lewis Carroll (Call number: 123277**). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Moser, Barry, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. (Call number: 113793). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Hunting of the Snark: an Agony, in Eight Fits / Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Barry Moser (Call number: 114552*). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- The Tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen and adapted, illustrated, and designed by Barry Moser (Call number: G 000 054 802 4). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
- Polly Vaughn: a Traditional British Ballad. Designed, illustrated, and retold in an American setting by Barry Moser (Call number: PZ 7 M834p 1992). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
Frankenstein: Wood Engraving Blocks
2 rejected Frankensteins.
2 rejected blocks--Frankenstein.
Orkney landscape.
4 unidentified blocks.
no.3. Cul de Lampe, 1.
no.8. Cul de Lampe, 2.
no.20. Cul de Lampe, 3.
no.33. Cul de Lampe, 4.
4 portraits Frankenstein.
4 portraits Frankenstein.
4 portraits Frankenstein.
4 portraits Frankenstein.
4 portraits Frankenstein.
no.1. Lightning, 1.
no.2. Blasted stump, 2.
no.4. Artic landscape, 1.
no.5. Artic landscape, 2.
no.6. Artic landscape, 3.
no.7. Artic landscape, 4.
no.9. Victor Frankenstein.
no.10. Repulsive Krempe.
no.11. Benevolent Waldman.
no.12. N. Waldman's instruments.
no.13. Victor's midnight labors.
no.15. Victor's dream of his mother.
no.16. Henry Clerval.
no.17. Death of William Frankenstein.
no.18. Elizabeth Lavenga.
no.19. Justine Moritz executed.
no.21. Gay apparel of summer.
no.23. Alpine landscape, 1.
no.32. Alpine landscape, 2.
no.34. A blasted tree.
no.35. Rhenish landscape.
no.36. Steeples of London.
no.38. The female daemon.
no.39. The female daemon ravaged.
no.40. Victor on the night sea.
no.41. Clerval, dead.
no.43. Victor's apparition of two eyes.
no.42. Victor's dungeon.
no.44. Victor and Elizabeth sailing.
no.45. Elizabeth murdered.
no.46. Frankenstein's family tomb.
no.47. Artic landscape, 5.
no.48. Artic landscape, 6.
no.49. Artic landscape, 7.
no.50. Artic landscape, 8.
no.51. Victor, dead.
no.52. Farewell.
The Hunting of the Snark: Wood Engraving Blocks
Wood engraving blocks.
The California Dante
Pencil sketches.
The Inferno
Incipient drawings--16 numbered, 1 unnumbered.
Second stage drawings--1-17, 1b-16b.
The Inferno: Illustrations
Dante (frontispiece).
I-22 (p.11).
II-127 (p.11).
Charon (p.28).
V-46 (p.28).
III -112 (p.28).
IV-103 (p.29).
V-4 (p.46).
V-85 (p.62).
IX-79 (p.63).
XII-4 (p.80).
XII-12, XII-63 (p.97).
XIII-5 (p.114).
XIII-40 (p.115).
XV-121 (p.115).
XV-18 (p.115).
XIV-1 (p.128).
XIV-103 (p.133).
XVII-50 (p.150).
XVIII-3 (p.150).
XXI-7 (p.168).
Dante & Virgil (p.169).
XX-52 (p.186).
Scarmiglione (p.187).
Barbariccia (p.187).
Calphas (p.203).
Ulysses & Diomedes (p.223).
XXVIII-22 (p.240).
XXIV-73-84 (p.258).
Ephialtes (p.259).
XXXII-128 (p.276).
The Inferno: Illustrations--Final
[Dante] (frontispiece).
I-2 (p.10).
XXXIV-28 (p.27).
VI-13 (p.47).
Tisiphone (p.81).
X-32 (p.96).
XIII-127 (p.150).
XVIII-133 Thais (p.151).
Vanni Fucci (p.205).
XXV-49 (p.222).
XXVIII-121 (p.241).
Purgatorio: Illustrations
Dante (frontispiece).
Purgatorio (p.1).
Cato (p.10).
II-27 (p.11).
Manfred (p.28).
Belacqua (p.29).
Buonconte (p.46).
VI-149 (p.47).
VIII-30 (p.64).
VIII-100 (p.65).
IX-19 (p.82).
IX-112 (p.83).
Omberto (p.100).
Arachne (p.101).
XIII-70 (p.118).
Aglauros (p.119).
XV-107 (p.136).
XVI-6 (p.137).
Haman (p.154).
XVIII-76 (p.155).
XIX-32 (p.172).
XIX-124 (p.173).
Virgil & Statius (p.190).
XXII-131 (p.191).
XXIII -22 (p.208).
XXIV-123 (p.209).
XXV-127-133 (p.226).
XXVI-42 (p.227).
XXVII-51 (p.244).
XXVIII-40 (p.245).
XXIX (p.262).
106-154 (p.263).
XXXII-148-160 (p.280).
Beatrice (p.281).
Artist's mark - A note on the drawings for the California Dante.
Paradiso: Illustrations
[Barry Moser].
[Dante] (frontispiece)--stained.
Paradiso half-title page(?)--pencil overlay.
no.2. The pool of light (p.1) Stained.
Beatrice--pencil sketch (p.10).
no.3A. Beatrice--background (p.10).
no.3B. The sun (p.11).
no.4. The moon & darkness [the first star) (pp.28-29).
no.5. The neverending light (pp.46-47)--stained.
no.6. Crucifixion (pp.64-65).
no.7. Aquinas & 11 lights (pp.82-83).
no.7b. Thomas Acquinas redrawing(?) (p.83).
no.8. Francis & Dominic (pp.100-101).
no.9. The resurrection (pp.118-119).
The evolution of Florence--pencil overlay (pp.136-137).
no.1. Diligite ... (pp.154-155).
The eye of the eagle (pp.172-173) pencil overlay.
no.12. Eagle's eye (pp.172-173).
no.13. Mountain landscape--Catria (pp.189-190).
no.14A. Christ (p.208).
no.14. Christ & the virgin (pp.208-209).
no.14B. The virgin (p.208).
no.15. Peter, James, John & Adam (pp.226-227).
no.16. The Mediterranea (pp.244-245).
no.17. The celestial rose (pp.262-263).
no.18. [Through thought on thoughts--borders only] (pp.280-281)--Stained.