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Finding Aid for the Collection of Original Works of Art on Paper, v.d.
Collection number: Original 99
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Title: Collection of Original Works of Art on Paper,
Date (inclusive): v.d.
Collection number: Original 99
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Original Works of Art on Paper (Collection Original 99). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library.
Note
Description derived from in-house card files.
The absentee. [London? ca. 1859].
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 10cm. Original pencil and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for
The absentee by Maria Edgeworth. London: Routledge [ca. 1859] Routledge Cheap Literature no.135. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook, disassembled
by Justin Schiller.
Agincourt. [London? 18--].
Physical Description: 1 item. 18 × 11cm. Original pencil and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for
Agincourt by George Payne Rainsford James. London: Routledge [18--] Sadleir 3600 [l]. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook, disassembled
by Justin Schiller.
Collection of scenery scheets for toy theatres. Copenhagen [ca. 1900?].
Creator/Collector: Alfred Jacobsens Kunstforlag
Physical Description: 35 items. Color lithographs.
Anatole, Views of Turkish costumes. Paris, Lemercier, [ca. 1858].
Physical Description: 2 items. 49 × 36 cm. Original lithographs by Anatole and Bocquin.
St. Francis., n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Angelo, Valenti, 1897-
Physical Description: 1 item. 23.5 × 33cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
The drawing depicts St. Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds.
Note
Publishing history unknown.
The grizzly and his captors. San Francisco, Wide West [n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Anthony & Baker,
engravers
Physical Description: 1 item. 27 × 21cm. Engraved letter sheet.
Scope and Content Note
The engraving, 13 × 18cm. including title, depicts a grizzly bear being lassooed by four vaqueros.
Henry Miller. [n.p., 1965].
Creator/Collector: Atkins, Jane
Physical Description: 1 item. 37 cm. Bronze bust.
Note
Gift of Henry Miller.
Illustrations for Jane Austen's
Persuasion. London: Book Society, 1944. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Austen, John
Physical Description: 8 items. 22.5 × 14.5 cm. Pencil drawings enhanced by watercolor.
Autochrome transparencies. v.p., [ca. 191-].
Physical Description: 8 items. 13.5 × 18cm. Glass plates.
Scope and Content Note
Landscapes and still life images.
Note
[Shelved with slides].
Portrait of Aldous Huxley. [Los Angeles? 1962].
Creator/Collector: Bachardy, Don, 1934-
Physical Description: 1 item. 90 × 29.5cm. framed. Ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by the artist. Signed and dated by the subject, August 2nd, 1962.
Note
Gift of Jacob I. Zeitlin, 1979.
[Permanent loan to Reference Department].
Portrait of Gerald Heard. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Bachardy, Don, 1934-
Physical Description: 1 item. 57 × 24 cm. Ink and wash drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed to Michael [Barrie] from Don [Bachardy].
Note
Gift of Michael Barrie.
Portrait of Gerald heard. [Los Angeles? 1962].
Creator/Collector: Bachardy, Don, 1934-
Physical Description: 1 item. 92 × 42cm. framed. Ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by the artist. Signed and dated by the subject, 13 December, 1962.
Note
Gift of Jay Michael Barrie, 1978.
Posters. Berkeley, California: Druid Press, ca. 1972-1975.
Creator/Collector: Baldock, Robert
Physical Description: [?] items. Approximately 60.5 cm. Artist's proofs.
Scope and Content Note
A group of broadsides commemorating various authors, among them Anaïs Nin, Virginia Woolf, and William Butler Yeats. Signed
by the artist.
Baños de Apoquindo, Chile, June 1856--Views.
Physical Description: Original watercolor; size 9 × 11.25. Artist and date unknown.
Self etching Rasputin. [n.p. (Hollywood?) ca., 1932].
Creator/Collector: Barrymore, Lionel, 1878-1954
Physical Description: 1 item. 34.5 × 27cm. Hand-colored etching, 3/50, signed in the plate.
Physical Description: Framed in black and gold frame with linen liner, 53.5 × 40.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts the actor in costume and make-up for his role in the film, Rasputin and the Empress, engrossed in drawing his self-portrait.
Note
[Hanging in HB's office].
Drawings [San Francisco & v.p.,] 1958-1963.
Creator/Collector: Barton, Rick
Physical Description: 7 packages, 1 box, 757 items. Original pen and ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
A collection of drawings, chiefly pen and ink, many of which were published by the Peregrine Press in their limited edition
print portfolios.
Note
Gift of Henry Evans.
[Packages shelved */doc box over cabinet].
Bas-relief profile of Sir John Bowring. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item. 39.5cm. Plaster bas-relief, in circular frame.
Physical Description: Framed, 55 cm.
Note
[Smith Room].
Battle of Chickamauga. Chicago: Kurz & Allison, c. 1890.
Physical Description: 1 item. 44 × 63.5cm. Color lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
General Rosecrans is depicted on horseback with his Union troops facing General Bragg and the Confederate forces.
...but never surrenders. ca. 1900.
Creator/Collector: Beerbohm,
Sir Max, 1872-1956
Physical Description: Original drawing in pencil and wash of Sir John Palmer Brabazon; with inscription For Jack [Gilbert Bohun] Lynch from M.X.
Physical Description: 33 × 20 cm.
Album, [Paris, France], 1824.
Creator/Collector: Bellangé, Joseph Louis Hippolyte, 1800-1866
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 cm. Bound volume of lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Contains 12 lithographs signed in the stone by Bellangé, lithographed by Villain (François le Villain?).
Illustration for Bemelmans'
Hansi. n.p. (New York?), ca. 1934.
Creator/Collector: Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962
Physical Description: 1 item. 6 × 13.5 cm. Original crayon and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
This drawing depicts a baby lying on a large pillow. In a mat, 10 × 18.5 cm.
Hansi was published by The Viking Press, New York, 1934.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard Meeks.
Illustrations for Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham. [London?, ca. 188-?].
Creator/Collector: Bennett, H., 1880-
Physical Description: 3 items. 20.5 × 25cm. Pen and ink drawings on Bristol board.
Scope and Content Note
Publishing history unknown. Signed and captioned by the artist. 1) vol.1, p.181, Jocko and the Landlady in Pelham's Room;
2) vol.1, p.289, Russelton and Pelham discussing Sir Willoughby Townsend's coat; 3) vol.3, p.331, Johnson, Dawon and Pelham
discovered in Mrs. Bremston's bedroom.
Los Angeles presiding spirit watches t.v. [Elrito, New Mexico] 1970.
Creator/Collector: Bentley, Wilder, 1900-
Physical Description: 1 item. 14.5 × 12 cm. Original woodcut. Mounted: 18.5 × 16 cm.
Scope and Content Note
4th edition.
Portrait of Alice B. Toklas. [Paris?, ca. 1930?].
Creator/Collector: Berman, Eugene, 1899-
Physical Description: 1 item. 55 × 40 cm. Ink drawing. Framed, 73 × 58 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Partial ink sketch of Gertrude Stein on verso.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
[Hanging in Reading Room].
[Stored small CBC Room - AC 6/28/90].
Architectural drawings. San Francisco, 1868-ca. 1875
Creator/Collector: Bestor, Henry T.
Physical Description: 3 items. Pen and ink drawings on linen.
Scope and Content Note
Architectural drawing of a four story dwelling, 1868. 60 × 73 cm. Architectural drawings of a school building with floor plans.
2 sheets, 34 × 92 cm. The architects address shows these to have been drawn after 1875.
Woodcuts, [n.p. (England), ca. 1797].
Creator/Collector: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828
Physical Description: 16 items. Woodblock prints.
Scope and Content Note
Proofs from Bewick's
A History of British Birds.
Note
Gift of B&L Rootenberg, 1980.
State of California. Boston, M.M. Ballou, 1855.
Creator/Collector: Billings,
Physical Description: 1 item. 8 × 23.5 cm. Hand-colored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Removed from Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, vol.9, no.11, September 15, 1855. Included is text describing the
symbolism of the engraving and extolling the State of California. Engraved by John Andrew. Drawn by Billings (perhaps Hammatt
Billings, 1818-1874, who was a Bostonian.).
Whitby. England, ca. 1800?
Creator/Collector: Bird, J., 1768-1829
Physical Description: 1 item. 15 × 21cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
Whitby was the birthplace of Captain James Cook.
Note
Ex-libris: Sir Maurice Holmes.
Bird engravings. London, Wildes, 1796-1803.
Physical Description: 19 items. 24 × 19.5 cm. plate mark. Hand-colored engravings.
Scope and Content Note
Engraved by J. Pass, drawn by G. Edwards and J. Reinold, the engravings appear to have been removed from a book.
Donald the Hammerer. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Blake, William, 1757-1827
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.3 × 13.7 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
This picture depicts a man at a forge, with a woman and a youth. It appears to be a preliminary study for Man at a Forge,
attributed incorrectly by Gilchrist to Blake's
Europe, a Prophecy, Lambeth, Printed by William Blake, 1794. See Alexander Gilchrist's
Life of William Blake, London, 1863, vol.2, p.202, no.15.
Note
Gift of Miss Margaret Gage, July, 1964.
[In maiden meditation, fancy free. n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Blake, William, 1757-1827
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 27 cm. Original pencil drawing.
Scope and Content Note
This drawing depicts figures in the air around a girl, who is reading as she walks. Listed in Alexander Gilchrist's Life of
William Blake, London, 1863, vol.2, p.253, no.154. On the verso is a pencil sketh of a woman holding a scroll.
Note
Gift of Miss Margaret Gage, July 1964.
William Makepeace Thackeray. [London?, ca. 1863].
Creator/Collector: Boehm, Sir Joseph Edgar, 1834-1890
Physical Description: 1 item. 57.5cm. Plaster statuette, painted.
Scope and Content Note
Begun in two sittings in 1860 and finished after Thackeray's death, this standing figure is said to be a very good likeness.
Note
Gift of Weseley Griswold, 1975.
[Stored in Smith Room 3/2001].
Mission San Antonio de Padua. [n.p. (California) ca. 1920].
Creator/Collector: Borein, Edward, 1873-1945
Physical Description: 1 item. 35.7 × 48.7 cm. Original etching. Signed in pencil in the margin.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced in Edward Borein's
Etchings of the West, 1950 (*NE/2210/B64S7).
Note
Ex-libris: W.W. Robinson.
[The carriage. Chicago, Stone & Kimball, 1896].
Creator/Collector: Bradgon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946
Physical Description: 1 item. 43 × 30.5 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted: 66 × 50.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Poster advertising The Chap-Book. Titles of posters were listed in the issue of December 16, 1896. This is no.10.
Drawings. n.p., ca. 1850.
Creator/Collector: Bradley, Edward, 1827-1889
Physical Description: 7 items. Original pen and ink drawings. 5 of the drawings are mounted on 1 piece of cardboard, 25.5 × 19cm.; 2 on another
piece, 7 × 12 cm.
Scope and Content Note
The following appear in Bradley's
The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford freshman, London, 1853 (Sadleir no.3432): Her play becomes earnest ... (p.93); Mr Verdant Green joins in a trap ... (p.111); Mr. Green,
however ... (p.113); As archery is in fasion ... (2 drawings, pp.99 and 100). The following appear in Bradley's
The further adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, London, 1854 (Sadleir no.3433): Mr. Verdant Green in a moment of weakness ... (p.47); and They enjoy altogether a very lively
day ... (p.93).
Note
Edward Bradley used the pseudonym Cuthbert Bede.
Harper's Bazaar cover designs. [n.p.], 1895.
Creator/Collector: Bradley, Will H. 1868-1962
Physical Description: 2 items. Original ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
1) Thanksgiving number, 1895. 51 × 34 cm. 2) Christmas, 1895. 37.5 × 25 cm.
Poster design for R.D. Blackmore's Fringilla. [n.p.], 1895.
Creator/Collector: Bradley, Will H. 1868-1962
Physical Description: 1 item. 46 × 18.5 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cf. Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. Fringilla. Cleaveland, Burrows, 1895. The poster differs silghtly from the title page design.
Illustration for
The Diary of Anne Frank. [n.p.], 1972.
Creator/Collector: Broderson, Morris, 1928-
Physical Description: 1 item. 56.5 × 38.5 cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Black and white lithograph enhanced with brown wash, signed in pencil and numbered 23/125.
Note
Gift of Gloria I., and Newton D. Werner, 1980.
El paso de Robles hot and cold sulphur springs. San Francisco [ca. 1883].
Creator/Collector: Brodie (J.R.) & Company
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 × 46 cm. Original lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Advertisement for Paso Robles Springs, with a chemical analysis of the water. Published at 420 Clay Street, the address of
J.R. Brodie & Company, (James R. Brodie and Samuel Valleau) from 1880 to 1885.
Note
[Shelved *].
Illustrations for
Robert Macaire in England, by George W.M. Reyolds. London, ca. 1840.
Creator/Collector: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
Physical Description: 17 items. Original pencil drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Robert Macaire in England, a novel in 3 vol. with seventeen illustrations by Phiz, was first published by Thomas Tegg, London, 1840. Sadleir no.2040.
The lovers. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882
Physical Description: 1 item. 10 × 11 cm. Original wash drawing. Mounted in a hinged mat, 22 × 27 cm.
Scope and Content Note
The drawing shows two lovers in a moonlit scene. Signed with Browne's pseudonym, Phiz. Publishing history unknown. Shown at
the Hove Museum Loan Exhibition in 1951.
Note
Ex-libris: Reverend Cannon F.H.D. Smythe.
Jake Zeitlin. Los Angeles, ca. 1937.
Creator/Collector: Brunswig, Marguerite, 1902?-
Physical Description: 1 item. 42 cm. Plaster bust.
Scope and Content Note
Portrait bust of Jacob Israel Zeitlin.
Note
Gift of Mr. Zeitlin, 1975.
On catalog cabinet in Exhibit Room.
Murals. v.p. (California) v.d.
Creator/Collector: Buff, Conrad, 1886-
Physical Description: 87 items. 5 × 8. Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
A collection of photographs printed from negatives in the Conrad Buff Collection.
Note
5 × 8 copy negatives are also available.
Gerald heard. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Bush, Gladys Lewis
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 cm. Bronze bust.
Note
[In exhibit room].
Venice auburn-haired beauty parade. Sunday, August 16th, 12 o'clock noon. [Los Angeles?] The Free Venice Beachhead, c. 1980.
Creator/Collector: C
Physical Description: 1 item. 48.5 × 32 cm. Colored lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts a woman in a 1920s bathing costume and includes an advertisement for the Pacific Electric Railway. no.46 of an edition
of 250.
Note
Gift of Brude Henstell, 1982.
Drawing, n.p., 1905.
Creator/Collector: Cady, Harrison, 1877- [Full name: Walter Harrison Cady]
Physical Description: 1 item. 30.5 × 27 cm. Original pen and ink drawing, oversize.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts an insect playing a hurdy-gurdy while a squirrel in a mobcap looks on. Publishing history unknown. Stamped on the
reverse are the words Overly Dep't. 3:40 p.m., Thursday, March 30, 1905.
California views. v.p., ca. 1896.
Physical Description: 19 items. Original watercolors. 5 items approximately 23 × 20 cm. and 14 items approximately 15 × 23 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Included are views of missions, churches, houses, and landscapes, probably California.
Note
Ex-libris: Joseph LeCompte Davis.
Kenneth Rexroth. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Callahan, James
Physical Description: 1 item. 87 × 67 cm. Oil portrait. Framed, 88.5 × 68.5 cm.
Note
Bequest of Helen Jacobson, 1975.
Caricature of George McManus. New York, 1919.
Creator/Collector: Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1919
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 21 cm. Photo-offset of an original pencil drawing.
Charcoal drawing of sleeping child. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Chapin, James, 1887-1975
Physical Description: 40.5 × 27.8 cm.
Charles Boyer. n.p., ca. 1948.
Physical Description: 1 item. 27.5 × 22 cm. Pen and watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
Caricature of Charles Boyer backstage peeping at the audience.
Charlie Eaton's old school. [England, 18--].
Physical Description: 1 item. 25 × 31 cm. Watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
An oval picture of a three story building beside and a little in front of a ruined tower.
Picture Book 2. Lay-Out (quarter size).
Creator/Collector: Charlot, Jean, 1898-
Physical Description: 144pp. 11.5 × 14.8 cm.
Note
Ex-libris: Jake Zeitlin.
Chepstow Castle, England.
Scope and Content Note
Colored sketch of Chepstow Catle, Monmouth Company, England, signed by J.E.M. Secit.
Ralph Bunche. n.p., ca. 1969.
Creator/Collector: Cherne, Leo, 1912-
Physical Description: 1 item. 40 cm. Bronze bust.
Note
Gift of the sculptor, 1969.
The Trollope family. From a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati in 1829. Lithograph by Childs & Inman. Philadelphia,
c. 1832.
Creator/Collector: Childs & Inman
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 45 cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Caricature of the Trollope family, done in revenge for the Englsih satire,
The domestic manners of the Americans, by Frances Trollope, 1832.
Note
[Shelved oversize].
Chinese Tortures. A Collection of ten paintings, Ho-nan, China, 1833?
Physical Description: 10 watercolors on pith. 2.5 × 13.25.
Clarence Seward Darrow bribery trial jury. Los Angeles, ca. 1912.
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 36.5 cm. Photograph. Mounted: 40.5 × 50 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Celebrating the birthday of Manly R. Williams, foreman of the jury for the second Darrow bribery trial.
Note
Ex-libris: James H. Pope.
[Shelved oversize].
Short. [n.p. (England) ca. 1880s].
Creator/Collector: Clarke, Joseph Clayton
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.8 × 12.3 cm. Watercolor and ink drawing. Mounted and overmatted 35.4 × 27.8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Signed Kyd. Short, a character from Charles Dickens'
Old Curiosity Shop, is depicted with the puppet Punch across his shoulders.
Class portrait. n.p., ca. 185-?
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 21 cm. Composite Daguerreotype.
Scope and Content Note
22 individual oval portraits re-photographed as a full-plate Daguerreotype. Possibly the work of Southworth & Hawes.
Henry H. Cobbett, ornamental printing. Los Angeles(?) 187-(?)
Creator/Collector: Cobbett, Henry H.
Physical Description: 1 item. 26 × 54 cm. Painted in colors on wood.
Scope and Content Note
Cobbett is believed to have been a Los Angeles printer.
Note
Acquired by purchase, ca. 1950s.
The happy courtship, merry marriage, and picnic dinner, of Cock Robin, and Jenny Wren. [London, ca. 1806].
Creator/Collector: Cock Robin
Physical Description: 9 items. 6.5 × 8.6 cm. Ink wash drawings. Mounted on one sheet and overmatted, 30 × 39 cm.
Scope and Content Note
The drawings are for plates 1-5, 7,8,25, and 26 of the 1806 edition of
Cock Robin, printed for J. Harris.
Engraving of portrait of Auguste Rodin by John Singer Sargent. 1926.
Creator/Collector: Cole, Timothy, 1852-1931
Physical Description: Signed by Timothy Cole. 10 × 13.
Pinocchio di Collodi. Florence, Italy, 1947
Creator/Collector: Colla, Alessandro
Physical Description: 1 item. 27.5 × 19.625. Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolors.
Scope and Content Note
Original artwork for poster advertising either a puppet theater or children's show with live actors at the Teatro Italiano
delle Marionette. Shows 25 scenes from the story. Signed by the artist.
Note
Gift of Justin G. Schiller in memory of James G. Davis.
Collages of birds. n.p., ca. 184-?
Physical Description: 16 items. 10 × 6.5 cm. Feather collages.
Scope and Content Note
Pictures of birds made of feathers with leaves and branches painted in watercolor. Included is a picture of a prelate whose
robes have been decorated with feathers.
Collection of engravings of oxford scenes and buildings. v.p., 18th century.
Physical Description: 2 items. Original hand-colored engravings.
Collection of engravings of various scenes and buildings in London. v.p., 18th century.
Physical Description: 18 items. Original hand-colored engravings.
Scope and Content Note
2 of the engravings are Italian; 8 are from Paris; 5 are from Augsburg; and 3 are unidentified.
Collection of illustrations for books or periodicals. n.p. (England), ca. 1890-1910.
Physical Description: 40 items. Original drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Drawings by Florence Mary Anderson (3); E. Barwell (2); E. French (1); H.G. Massey (2); G. Wallis Mills (4); J. Ley Pethybridge
(5); Claude Allin Shepperson (9); J. Ambrose Waltor (1); F.S. Wilson (1); unidentified (12).
The works for which these drawings were done have not been identified.
Collection of original prints showing scenes in which magic lanterns are pictured. v.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 4 items. Original prints.
Scope and Content Note
Most of the prints are French and appear to be from the first half of the 19th century.
Collection of pastel drawings by an unknown artist, of the California coast around Malibu. Malibu, California, ca. 1920.
Physical Description: 21 items. Original drawings.
Scope and Content Note
These pictures are by an amateur artist.
Collection of political and social caricatures and cartoons. London, ca. 1785-1835.
Physical Description: 66 items. Original prints.
Scope and Content Note
17 of these are by George Cruikshank, and 7 are by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. The majority are hand-colored.
Collection of risqué Victorian pictures. London, ca. 1840.
Physical Description: 8 items. Original lithographs, colored.
Scope and Content Note
3 of these are by T.C. Wilson.
Collection of sheets published for children. v.p., v.n., v.a.
Physical Description: 7 pieces, hand-colored.
Scope and Content Note
Includes 3 items, The fathers hope, The mothers pride, & a sheet of vignettes of a moral character, from Beauchamp Bookshop
purchase, catalog 19, no.240 (1954).
Note
(Noah's ark & Prince lee Boo have been catalogued separately).
Collection of Victorian paintings. n.p. (English), ca. 1836-1900.
Physical Description: 5 items. Original paintings.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: Painting (ca. 1866) by G. Barclay (?) depicts a number of periodical covers, 2 watercolor paintings (1836 and 1837)
by Stephen Jenner, pastel of a cat, and a painting of 2 Victorian ladies.
Richard Garnett. [London (?), ca. 1900].
Creator/Collector: Collier, John
Physical Description: 1 item. 22.5 × 18 cm. Photograph, mounted.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph by Henry Dixon & Son, London, from the painting by John Collier. Signed by Garnett for Mackenzie Bell, 6th January
1900.
Note
Ex-libris: Mackenzie Bell.
Comparative view of the heights of the principal mountains &c. in the world. London: C. Smith. 1815 (3rd edition).
Physical Description: 67 × 54.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Coloured reproduction of view of the highest mountains of the Western hemisphere on the left and Eastern hemisphere on the
right. Sea level and London are on the bottom, and Dhawalagiri or White mountain is the highest peak shown.
Con Cregan. [London? ca. 1856].
Physical Description: 1 item. 20 × 13.3. cm. Original ink and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for
Confessions of Con Cregan by Charles James Lever. London, Routledge [ca. 1856] Sadleir no.3611 [3]. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook, disassembled by
Justin Schiller.
As the river to the sea, so may blessings flow to thee. San Francisco, December 31, 1896.
Creator/Collector: Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924
Physical Description: 1 item. 22.5 × 17.5 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
This drawing depicts five of palmer Cox's brownies holding up a banner.
The brownies and the pure milk supply. no.4. n.p., ca. 1910.
Creator/Collector: Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 25 cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Published in Cox's
The Brownies' Latest Adventures, The Century Company, New York, c. 1910, p.108.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard Meeks.
The brownies at Glen-da-lough, n.p., ca. 1898.
Creator/Collector: Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.5 × 9 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Published in
The Brownies Abroad, New York, The Century Company [c. 1898], p.90.
The Brownies fishing. n.p., ca. 1890.
Creator/Collector: Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924
Physical Description: 1 item. 19 × 19 cm. Original pen and ink drawing. In a hinged mat, 48 × 35 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Published in Cox's
Another Brownie book, The Century Company, New York, c. 1890, p.30.
The Brownies in California. At Fort Point and Golden Gate. n.p., ca. 1895.
Creator/Collector: Cox, Palmer, 1840-1924
Physical Description: 1 item. 22.5 × 24.5 cm. Original pen and ink drawing. Mountd in a hingedmat, 48 × 35 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Published in Cox's
The Brownies through the Union, The Century Company, New York, c. 1895, p.137.
Bookplate designed for Clement K. Shorter. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 10.5 cm. Woodblock print. Mounted and overmatted 27.9 × 22.7 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts a woman reading a book. A stanza of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is inscribed as part of the background.
E e elephant [page from an alphabet book. n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Physical Description: 1 leaf. 22.5 × 17.5 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
This watercolor depicts an elephant, a fox, and two giraffes.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
[Flora's feast: a masque of flowers. Penned & pictured by Walter Crane. Six leaves only. n.p. (English), ca. 1889].
Creator/Collector: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
Physical Description: 6 items. Original watercolor drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Originally published by Cassell & Company, Limited, London, 1889. These drawings, with the text at the top of each leaf, are
for anemones,lady smoks, primrose, hyacinths, lilies, and pinks.
Portrait of Kenneth Rexroth. [n.p., 1968]
Creator/Collector: Crehan, Hubert
Physical Description: Approximately 100 × 75 cm. Oil painting, framed.
Note
A negative of the painting is available.
Blind-man's Buff. London, G. Tregear n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 21.5 × 26.6. cm. Hand-colored aquatint.
Scope and Content Note
Shows a wild game of blind-man's buff at a Christmas(?) party.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Cartoons illustrating lines from
The Tempest by William Shakespeare. London, G.E. Madeley, Seymour Del & n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 5 items. 12.1-12.3 × 8.9-9.2 cm. Lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Each card has a line from
The Tempest and a cartoon giving an alternate reading of the line.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Cartoons illustrating lines from various Shakespeare plays. London, G.E. Madeley & n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 7 items. 11.8-12.3 × 9.9-9.4 cm. Lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Each cartoon has a line from an unidentified Shakespeare play and a cartoon giving an alternate reading of the line.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Copper plates engraved for
The Humourist. London, ca. 1819.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 3 items. 16 × 10 cm. Original copper plates.
Scope and Content Note
These plates were made to illustrate
The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, &c., &c. London, J. Robins & Company Albion Press, 1819. 2 of them are for the engraved title pages of vol.1 and 4; the third is
entitled, Tom Blanchard in Hamlet ... Modern impressions are with the plates.
Note
A second set of the impressions with wide margins is shelved Original 99 oversize.
Dancing dolls - or - Les marionettes à Londrés. London, G. Humphrey, 1823.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.5 × 15 cm. Hand-colored etching.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts a boy street performer with fife and drum and dancing dolls.
Note
Cohn no.1037.
Drawings, n.p., v.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 3 items. Original drawings.
Scope and Content Note
2 drawings (1 pen and ink, 18 × 11 cm., and 1 pencil, 8.5 × 9.5 cm.) are for the plates for Puss in boots, London, ca. 1864.
The pencil drawing was used to etch the central figure in the plate opposite p.13. The other is a pen and ink drawing of the
fascade of a house. Signed on the verso, George Cruikshank, Sept. 27th, 1851. 11 × 18 cm. With these: copy of the book
Puss in boots, London, ca. 1864, with the Cruikshank illustrations.
Note
Ex-libris: Karshner Collection.
The French artist. London, G. Humphrey. 1819.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 21.6 cm. Colored aquatint.
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Frederick Marryat. Caricatures the artist, undismayed by rags and poverty, painting his fantasies while his emaciated
dog barks at the hand of the bill collector pushing beneath the door.
Note
Cohn no.1131.
From the West Indies. London, G. Humphrey, 1824.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 16 × 20.5 cm. Hand-colored etching.
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Frederick Marryat. Depicts five passengers, a planter, his wife, a hodded woman, a black woman, and a black boy,
sitting on a bench at the rail of a sailing ship. All of them except the boy appear to be seasick.
Note
Cohn no.1140. Companion to
To Calais.
Game of chess. London, G. Humphrey, 1819.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 12 × 16.3 cm. Hand-colored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Adaptation of an 1814 caricature designed by Frederick Marryat. Caricature of two men playing chess while two others watch
them.
Note
Cohn no.1148.
Illustrations for
Rambles in the footsteps of Don Quixote by Henry D. Inglis. London Whittaker, 1837.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 3 items. 20.8 × 25.2 cm., 24 × 30.5 cm., and 24.2 × 30.3 cm. Etchings. Set of 6 etchings. India proofs, undivided, on three
sheets of paper.
Scope and Content Note
Captions are: 1) The author & his guide. 2) Lazaro and the Franciscan Friar. 3) Polinario and the Bishop of Jaen. 4) Lazarro
outwitted by the Cura. 5) Lazaro and the Cura. 6) Juanes and the goose.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Jack and the beanstalk. London (?) 185-(?).
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 33 × 50 cm. Original watercolor. Framed, 36 × 53 cm. In six panels on a single sheet of paper.
Scope and Content Note
Possibly preliminary sketches for
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library edition, 1854. They differ somewhat from the published version.
Note
[Booth Room Display Case].
Lobster sauce and The unexpected visit. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 19.7 × 15.6 cm. Hand-colored etching. Two images, each 6.5 × 10.0 cm., on a single sheet of paper.
Scope and Content Note
On upper image two army officers admire two ladies in the park. On the lower image a man in nightclothes is startled by a
blackened chimney sweep emerging from the fireplace.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Mr. Walbourn as Dusty Bob. London, G. Humphrey, n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 25.2 × 18.75 cm. Hand-colored etching.
Scope and Content Note
Sub-titled I like to have my vack - here's luck your honour.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
Passing events, or The tail of the comet of 1853. London. D. Bogue [1854].
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.5 × 38.5 cm., image not including caption. Etching.
Scope and Content Note
Satirical review of the year's events with small figures forming the tail of the comet, from
George Cruikshank's Magazine, Frank E. Smedley, ed., no.1, January 1854.
Note
Cohn no.185.
Pounds, shillings, pence and Dancing bears. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 19.5 × 15.3 cm. Hand-colored etching. 2 images, one 6.6. × 12.7 cm., the other 6.5 × 7.6 cm., on a single sheet of
paper.
Scope and Content Note
Upper image has 3 panels showing people who have pounds, shillings and pence respectively. The lower image shows a dancing
fiddler and a dancing couple.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
A tailor in a high wind - or - L'embarras des richesses. Drawn from the life on the Cliff, Brighton. London, G. Humphrey,
1819.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 20.3 × 18.4 cm., image. Hand-colored etching. 25 × 20.2 cm. to outer border.
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Frederick Marryat. Caricature of a tailor trying to open his umbrella into the gale while his hat, wig, and bolts
of cloth are blown away and a little girl clings to his neck.
Note
Cohn no.2024.
To Calias. London, G. Humphrey, 1824.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 21 cm. Hand-colored etching.
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Frederick Marryat. Depicts a group of seasick passengers on a packet boat. The smoking of another passenger is
adding to their malaise.
Note
Cohn no.2036. Companion to
From the West Indies.
Trial of Queen Caroline and the coronation of George IV. n.p., R. Bowyer, ca. 1821.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 35.9 × 48.7 cm. Engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Plate shows individually named members of the House of Lords at the trial of Queen Caroline; Ground plan of the House of Lords
during the trial of Queen Caroline; view of Villa d'Este on Lake Como, residence of Queen Caroline, and seating plan for the
coronation of George IV.
Note
Gift of Marion K. Vogler.
A visit to Cockney Farm. Viewing the grounds &c &c &c. (i e) Being dragg'd through mud & mire by your cockney friend (who
has lately taken - a - seat in the country) to show the improvements! & his ignorance in farming! London, G. Humphrey, 1819.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 35.2 cm., image. Hand-colored engraving. 24.7 × 35.2 cm. to outer border.
Scope and Content Note
Designed by Frederick Marryat. Supposedly caricatures Marryat's parents at their farm.
Note
Cohn no.2085.
A visit to to the fives court. Engraved for the
Annals of Sporting &
Fancy Gazette. [London] Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1822.
Creator/Collector: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Physical Description: 1 item. 20.5 × 25.5 cm., image. Hand-colored etching.
Scope and Content Note
The foreground figures are portraits of important men of the day. At the far right of the plate are Robert (in a long white
coat) and George (looking at him through a glass) Cruikshank. For a full identification of the portraits, see Dorothy M. George,
Catalogue of political and personal satires ... in the British Museum, 1952 (vol.10, no.14493).
Little Charlie. Lithograph by Currier & Ives. New York, c. 1874.
Creator/Collector: Currier & Ives
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 28 cm. Colored lithograph.
Note
Gift of Mexicer Brown.
Abraham Lincoln. [n.p., ca. 1943].
Creator/Collector: Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-
Physical Description: 2 items, approximately 24 × 16 cm. Lithograph proofs.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.60 and p.64 of James Daugherty's Abraham Lincoln. New York, Viking, 1943. Signed in pencil by the artist.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustration for
Courageous Companions. [n.p., ca. 1929].
Creator/Collector: Daugherty, James Henry, 1889-
Physical Description: 1 item. 33 × 42.5 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.12 of Charles Finger's
Courageous Companions. London, Longmans Green, 1929. Presentation copy from the artist to Bernard M. Meeks dated July 30, 1945.
Kssssss! Pedro...Ksssse! Ksssse! Miguel! (Ces deux capons la ne se feront jamais grand mal). Paris, s.m., ca. 1833.
Creator/Collector: Daumier, Honore, 1808-1879
Physical Description: 32.8 × 26 cm.
Scope and Content Note
La Caricature (Journal) no.140. Pl. 291. Caricature of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil.
Gertrude Stein. n.p., ca. 1923.
Creator/Collector: Davidson, Jo. 1883-1952
Physical Description: 1 item. 20cm. Bronze sculpture.
Scope and Content Note
Full figure of Gertrude Stein, seated, with hands between knees.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
Henry Miller. [n.p., ca. 196-].
Creator/Collector: Day, Andrea
Physical Description: 1 item. 102.5 × 55 cm. Oil portrait. Framed, 112.5 × 82.5 cm.
Note
Gift of Henry Miller.
Elin's Amerika. [n.p., ca. 1941].
Creator/Collector: De Angeli, Marguerite (Lofft) 1889-
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.2 × 22.1 cm. Original pencil drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[61] of Marguerite de Angeli's
Elin's Amerika. Garden City, Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustration for
Henner's Lydia. [n.p., ca. 1936].
Creator/Collector: De Angeli, Marguerite (Lofft) 1889-
Physical Description: 1 item. 8.5 × 13 cm. Original pencil drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by the artist. Published in
Henner's Lydia by Marguerite De Angeli. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Up the hill. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: De Angeli, Marguerite (Lofft) 1889-
Physical Description: 1 item. 15 × 15 cm. Color print.
Scope and Content Note
Signed in pencil by the artist. Removed from an unidentified work; letterpress text on verso.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
*** The death of Captain Cook. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item. 57 × 67.5 cm. framed. Oil painting on metal.
Scope and Content Note
By an unidentified artist, probably copied from the painting by George Carter in the National Library of Australia at Canaberra.
Hecotr. [n.p. (Paris?) ca. 177-].
Creator/Collector: Delâtre, Nöel-Pierre-Louis(?) fl. 1767-1779
Physical Description: 1 item. 8 × 5.5 cm. Hand-colored wood block print.
Scope and Content Note
The Jack of diamonds, named Hector.
The demi-rep countess of C-- alias The lying chambermaid. A match for my joke - O!!
Physical Description: 1 item. 34 × 23 cm. Original watercolor and ink caricature.
Scope and Content Note
Original of a drawing published London, Fairburn, 1820(?). Cf.
British Museum Catalog of political and personal satires, vol.10, 1857. The character satirized is Louise DeMont who gave evidence, later discredited, against Queen Caroline.
In a shawl of Galway grey. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Dennis, Morgan, 1892-1960
Physical Description: 1 item. 29.5 × 22.2 cm. Original etching. Signed in pencil in the margin.
* Why travel? n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Denslow, William Wallace, 1856-1915
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 36.5 cm. Original watercolor sketch. Autograph note on verso.
Scope and Content Note
Christopher Columbus studies a Rand McNally Atlas while a Puritan maiden serves him fruit and wine.
** Dame Edith Sitwell. London(?) ca. 1930.
Creator/Collector: d'Erlanger, Baroness Catherine
Physical Description: 1 item. 55.5 × 41.5 cm. Oil painting on canvas.
Note
Gift of Jack Cole, 1968.
* Mr. Osbert Sitwell. London(?) ca. 1930.
Creator/Collector: d'Erlanger, Baroness Catherine
Physical Description: 1 item. 45.5 × 36 cm. Oil painting on cardboard. Unframed.
Note
Gift of Jack Cole, 1968.
[Design for a fan showing the Bay of Naples by night with Vesuvius erupting in the background. n.p., ca. 1830].
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 39 cm. Original painting. Painted in tempera on vellum.
Scope and Content Note
Artist unknown.
Satirical drawing relating to Adolph Sutro and the building of his tunnel. [n.p.] S.H. Swanwick, c.1874.
Creator/Collector: Doris, C.K.
Physical Description: 1 drawing. 16 × 22.5 cm. Contemporary photograph of original drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Sutro is depicted as a mountebank and a con man who is trying to sell three miners a bill of goods to work for tunnel stock
instead of wages, promising them they will end up owning the Comstock.
The fairies' ball. [n.p., ca. 1870].
Creator/Collector: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 30 cm. Original pen and ink drawing, mounted and matted.
Scope and Content Note
Included is a holograph poem about Dicky doyle and his visit to Elf-land.
*** Anaïs Nin as Pisces. Los Angeles, 1963-1964.
Creator/Collector: Druks, Renate
Physical Description: 1 item. 117 × 165cm. Original oil painting.
Music at home. London, 1884-1885.
Creator/Collector: Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson, 1834-1896
Physical Description: 3 items. 25 × 35 cm. Original ink drawings. Mounted in hinged mats, 36 × 40 cm.
Scope and Content Note
These drawings satirize various aspects of music at home. 2 of them, Music at Home I and Music at Home II, were published
in
Punch's Almanac for 1884; the other was published in
Punch's Almanac for 1885.
* Yes, you young idiot! cried the old man jumping up. [London, 1877].
Creator/Collector: Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson, 1834-1896
Physical Description: 1 item. 25 × 34.5 cm. Original ink drawing. Matted, 32 × 37.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
To illustrate Mrs. Oliphant's
Carita, 1877, p.174.
* At the seaside. [n.p., ca. 1944].
Creator/Collector: Duvoisin, Roger Antoine, 1904-
Physical Description: 1 item. 19.5 × 19 cm. Original black and white drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.7 of Robert Louis Stevenson's
A Child's Garden of Verse. [New York] Heritage Press, 1944.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Early ballooning. France, ca. 1890.
Physical Description: 7 items. 18 × 24.5 cm. Original photographs.
Scope and Content Note
5 photographs depicting steps in the inflating and lift off of a balloon. unidentified French city in background. A sixth
photograph, 27.5 × 22 cm., appears to be a different balloon.
Note
Gift of Albert Boni.
Portrait of Robert Bloomfield. n.p. (England) ca. 1802.
Creator/Collector: Eldridge, Henry, 1769-1821
Physical Description: 1 item. 24 × 19 cm. Original pencil drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Bound in: Edward Wedlake Brayley's
Views in Suffolk...London, Vernor, 1806 (PR4149 B6B7). This drawing was made to be published in Bloomfield's
Rural Tales. London, Vernor, 1802.
* Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. [n.p.], 1905.
Creator/Collector: Emanuel, Frank Lewis, 1865-1948
Physical Description: 1 item. 17 × 12 cm. Ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
After original portrait by George Richmond, 1850.
English Theatre Prints. [v.p. (England) ca. 182-].
Physical Description: 3 items. Approximately 23 × 19cm. Hand-colored woodcuts.
Scope and Content Note
The prints depict actors of the time costumed for important roles:
- Mrs. C. Kemble as Aladin.
- Mr. Farley, as Robinson Crusoe.
- Mr. Hicks, as Robert Macaire.
[So he combed his hair and he came too] [n.p., ca. 1944].
Creator/Collector: Ets, Marie Hall, 1895-
Physical Description: 1 item. 19 × 27.5 cm. Original charcoal drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration reproduced on p.[5] of Marie Ets's
In the Forest. New York, Viking, 1944.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Collection of 18 original watercolors and drawings (plus 2 finished proofs) from the files of Edmund Evans, chiefly for cover
designs for Routledge publications.
Creator/Collector: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Physical Description: Most approximately 7 × 4, some approximately 9 × 5.
* Botanical prints, San Francisco, 1964.
Creator/Collector: Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-
Physical Description: 3 items. Linoleum block prints.
Scope and Content Note
- Water lilies, 48.5 × 32.5 cm., no.60/100
- Eucalyptus, 48.5 × 33 cm., no.41/100
- Bamboo, 48.5 × 33 cm. [no no.]
Botanical prints, San Francisco, ca. 1965.
Creator/Collector: Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-
Physical Description: 3 items. Linoleum block prints.
Scope and Content Note
- Parsley, 31 × 26 cm.,1967
- Oleander, 51 × 31 cm. [n.d.]
- Chrysanthemum, 51 × 38 cm., 1964
Note
Gift of Miss Norah Jones, June, 1972.
* Evergreen Cemetery. Los Angeles(?), Thompson & West, c. 1880.
Physical Description: 1 item. 28.6 × 35.5 cm. Hand-colored lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
View of recently opened cemetery in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. The cemetery was opened in 1877. Caption reads:
Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. Owned by the Los Angeles Cemetery Association.
* Stage-set design for Altona foglyai [Prisoners of Altona] Budapest, 1968.
Creator/Collector: Fabri, Zoltan
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 53 cm. Gouache.
Scope and Content Note
Presented at the Vig Szinhaz, Budapest, 1968.
Note
Gift of Endre Bohem, January 1973.
* Stage-set design for Nyár [Summer] Budapest, 1967.
Creator/Collector: Fabri, Zoltan
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 58 cm. Gouache.
Scope and Content Note
Presented at the Pesti Szinhaz, Budapest, 1967.
Note
Gift of Endre Bohem, January 1973.
Woodcuts. v.p., 1947-1958.
Creator/Collector: Felixm¨ller, Conrad, 1897-
Physical Description: 30 items. Approximately 14 × 11cm. Woodblock prints.
Scope and Content Note
12 prints depicting a different activity for each month, Aus dem Jahr des malers, and 18 prints for greeting cards, announcements,
and book illustrations, captioned and signed in the margin and initialed in the block.
Note
Ex-libris: Walter O. Schneider.
* Prints from Daguerreotypes. Paris, 184-
Creator/Collector: Fizeau, Hippolyte
Physical Description: 2 items. Process de Fizeau. 10.5 × 8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Examples of an etching process in which a Daguerreotype is used to make the printing plate. Mounted and overmatted together
in one mat for an exhibit on the history of photography at U.C. Riverside, 1986: 40.5 × 50.5 cm.
Note
Gift of Albert Boni.
[Shelved in Smith Room].
* The Robber-chief catches the queen. [n.p. (England) ca. 1908].
Creator/Collector: Ford, Henry Justice, 1860-1941
Physical Description: 1 item. 33 × 26.5 cm. Pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for
The Book of Prince and Princesses by Leonora Blanche Lang, edited by Andrew Lang, London, 1908. Notations beneath the image in Ford's hand.
* Rubezahl and the princess. n.p. (English) 1904.
Creator/Collector: Ford, Henry Justice, 1860-1941
Physical Description: 1 item. 31 × 19.5 cm. Original watercolor painting. In a mat, 41 × 32 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Published in Andrew Lang's
The Brown Fairy Book, London, Longmans, Green & Company, 1904, p.290.
* Spindle shuttle needle. n.p. (English) ca. 1890.
Creator/Collector: Ford, Henry Justice, 1860-1941
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 × 27.5 cm. Original pen and ink drawing. In a mat, 48 × 40 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Published in Andrew Lang's
The Green Fairy Book, London, Longmans, Green & Company, 1892, p.288. It illustrates the story, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, a Grimm brothers
story.
A good natured hint about California, by Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym. London, ca. 1849].
Creator/Collector: [Forrester, Alfred Henry] 1804-1872
Physical Description: 1 item. 53 × 41.5 cm. 35 original pen and ink drawings on one sheet.
Scope and Content Note
First published by D. Bogue, London, 1849. Cowan blibliography, p.218.
Designs for Yellowback covers. London, 185-.
Creator/Collector: [Forrester, Alfred Henry (?)] 1804-1872
Physical Description: 3 items. Approximately 17 × 14 cm. Watercolor drawings and collage.
Scope and Content Note
Artist attribution by Gordon Ray. Designs, probably unused, for: Stanley Thorn, by Henry Cockton. London, Bentley [185- ];
Remembrances of a monthly nurse, by Downing. London T. Hodson [185- ]; susan Hopley, by Mrs. Catherine Crowe. London, Routledge
[185- ].
Note
Gift of Gordon Ray.
Watercolor drawings. n.p. (English), ca. 1859.
Creator/Collector: Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872
Physical Description: 4 items. 11 × 14 cm. Original drawings. The 4 drawings are on 2 sheets, 2 to a sheet.
Scope and Content Note
These drawings illustrate The Selfish Man, or The World's Teaching, from
Fairy Tales, by Forrester, published by Routledge, London, 1859. The paper is watermarked, 1851.
Views of Santa Sophia, Constantinople. London, P. & D. Colnaghi, 1852.
Creator/Collector: Forsati, Gaspard
Physical Description: 5 items. 56 × 34.5 cm. Original lithographs.
Costume and set designs for Haldane Macfall's play, The three students. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921
Physical Description: 5 items. Original watercolor paintings. Each painting is matted.
Scope and Content Note
Apparently this play was never produced or published. A novel, The three students, by Haldane Macfall, was published by A.A.
Knopf, London and New York, 1926.
Chalk drawings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Freeman, Don
Physical Description: 9 items.
Note
[Shelved with *** maps].
Drawings. [Los Angeles, ca. 1970.].
Creator/Collector: Freeman, Don
Physical Description: 6 items. Original crayon drawings.
Scope and Content Note
These drawings were done for Jerome Cushman. Includes a self portrait.
Note
Gift of Mr. Cushman, February 1971.
[** Oversize].
Illustration for
Farming, by Richard Kendall Munkittrick. n.p., ca. 1891.
Creator/Collector: Frost, Arthur Burdett, 1851-1928
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 19 cm. Original pen and ink drawing, matted.
Scope and Content Note
A sketch of a woman scrubbing the floor and reading a book.
Farming, by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, was published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1891.
Untitled image of a room. [n.p.], 1928.
Creator/Collector: Gag, Wanda, 1893-1946
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.7 × 14.7 cm. Woodcut.
Scope and Content Note
Printed on thin laid paper, signed and dated in pencil by the artist.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Collection of watercolor drawings by Geissler and other German illustrators. n.p. (Germany), ca. 1850-1875.
Creator/Collector: Geissler, Rudolf Carl Gottfried, 1834-1906
Physical Description: 43 items. Original watercolor drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Apparently used to illustrate children's books. Publishing history unknown. 16 of the drawings are signed by Geissler, and
1 is signed by Hugo Bürkner. The others are unsigned but some may be by Geissler.
Drawings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Geissler, Rudolf Carl Gottfried, 1834-1906
Physical Description: 2 items. Original wash drawing. Mounted in hinged mats, 23.5 × 20.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
One picture shows children indoors with their nurse; the other shows children outdoors. Not known if published.
* A gentleman of France [by] Stanley Weyman. [n.p., ca. 1893].
Physical Description: 1 item. 33.5 × 22.5 cm. Original watercolor. Mounted and overmatted 49.5 × 37.2 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Attributed to Richard Caton Woodville. Probably a poster advertising one of the many publications of this book.
Note
Gift of Charles Gullens, 1981.
* Craters, Mono Lake. n.p. (California?), 1927.
Creator/Collector: Gentz, Franz
Physical Description: 1 item. 24.5 × 33.3. cm. Original woodcut. Mounted 25.3 × 34 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Printed on tissue and signed in pencil.
Illustration for
The Merry Shipreck. [n.p., ca. 1942].
Creator/Collector: Gergeley, Tibor
Physical Description: 1 item. 13.5 × 23 cm. Watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[1] of Georges Duplaix's
The Merry Shipwreck. New York, Harper, 1942.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
The bear and his leader. [H. Humphrey, London, 1806].
Creator/Collector: Gillray, James, 1757-1815
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.5 × 22.5 cm. Engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Caricatures Charles James Fox and William Wyndham Grenville. The plate is numbered XIII and is possibly removed from a book.
The great south sea caterpillar, transformed into a Bath butterfly. London, H. Humphrey, 1795.
Creator/Collector: G[illra]y, J[ame]s, 1757-1815
Physical Description: 1 item. 34 × 24 cm. Original engraving, contemporary hand colored.
Scope and Content Note
Caricatures of Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820.
Note
Ex-libris: Maurice Holmes, 1885- .
* Polonius. H. Humphrey, London, 1795.
Creator/Collector: Gillray, James, 1757-1815
Physical Description: 1 item. 23.5 × 33.5 cm. Colored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Caricatures Salibury as Lord Chamberlain.
Note
For correspondence regarding the state of this engraving see the collection file.
Two pair of portraits; -- presented to all the unbiased electors of Great-Britain, by John Horne Tooke. J. Wright, London,
1798.
Creator/Collector: Gillray, James, 1757-1815
Physical Description: 1 item. 18.5 × 26 cm. Engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts John Horne Tooke painting portraits of Fox and Pitt. Fox and Pitt are caricatures, but Horne Tooke is not.
Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country. San Francisco, Snow & May, 1875.
Creator/Collector: Goddard, George Henry, 1817-1906
Physical Description: 1 item. 74 × 118 cm. Original lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Lithograph. Britton, Rey & Company, San Francisco. View map looking east, with key to locations.
Thackeray. n.p., 1893.
Creator/Collector: Goddard, Ralph Bartlett, 1861-
Physical Description: 1 item. 18 cm. diameter. Bronze plaque.
Scope and Content Note
Profile in relief of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Note
Gift of Wesley Griswold, 1976.
[In Booth Room].
* Henry Miller. [n.p., ca. 1960].
Creator/Collector: Golden, Sanford
Physical Description: 1 item. 32 cm. Bronze bust.
Note
Gift of Henry Miller.
* Engravings and drawings. n.p. (England) v.d.
Creator/Collector: Gooden, Stephen, 1892-1955
Physical Description: 88 items. Original engravings, woodcuts, and drawings.
Scope and Content Note
A list of titles with numbers relating them to the
Campbell Dodgson Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden, London, 1944, is in the Collections File.
* Le grand Saint Lundi. Éspinal, Pellerin [ca. 1870?].
Physical Description: 1 item. 41 × 63 cm. Handcolored broadside.
Scope and Content Note
The image populaire depicts workers of all sorts paying homage to Saint Lundi pictured as a worder himself seated astride
a wine barrel. Verses are printed on either side of the picture.
Isadora. n.p., 1902-1904.
Creator/Collector: Grandjouan,
Physical Description: 4 items. Original pastel sketches. 2 sketches on paper. 31 × 24cm.
Note
Ex-libris: Arthur Todd.
Nelly and her grandfather at the races. n.p., ca. 1875.
Creator/Collector: Green, Charles, 1840-1898
Physical Description: 1 item. 18.5 × 25 cm. Original pen and ink drawing. Mounted in a hinged mat, 22 × 28.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
An illustration for
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens, London, Chapman & Hall's Household Edition, 1876(?).
Untitled drawing of a boy fishing. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Greenaway, kate, 1846-1901
Physical Description: 1 item. Approximately 12.5 × 10.5 cm. Original watercolor drawing. Framed, 38 × 33 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts a small boy fishing from a rock.
Note
Ex-libris: John Rushkin.
Watercolor painting of a girl and boy carrying a basket of apples. n.p., ca. 1888.
Creator/Collector: Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
Physical Description: 1 item. 11 × 8.5 cm. Original watercolor painting.
Scope and Content Note
Signed, K.G. Presented to Robert Browning; with the original envelope postmarked April 30, 1888.
Note
Ex-libris: Karshner Collection.
Chimpanzee. W. Africa. From nature. [n.p.], 1880.
Creator/Collector: Griset, Ernest, 1844-1907
Physical Description: 1 item. 72 × 53.5 cm. Original crayon and watercolor drawing. Unframed.
Scope and Content Note
Portrait of a chimpanzee holding a staff. Not known if published.
Note
[*** Oversize].
* The copper imp. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Griset, Ernest, 1844-1907
Physical Description: 1 item. 15 × 19 cm. Ink and watercolor drawing. Matted, 28 × 40 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Shows a woman with a scrubbing brush being startled by an imp who has leaped from her washtub. Publication undetermined.
* Performing elephant being photgraphed. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Griset, Ernest, 1844-1907
Physical Description: 1 item. 30.5 × 38 cm. Ink and watercolor drawing. Matted, 43 × 52 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Shows an elephan on his hindlegs with his trainer sitting on his tail and two photographers with tripods and headcloths shooting
the scene. Publication undetermined.
*** Portrait of Edouard Roditi. [Paris (France)] 1931.
Creator/Collector: Grosser, Maurice Richard, 1903-
Physical Description: 1 item. 85 × 71 cm., framed. Oil painting.
Scope and Content Note
Grosser was an American expatriate artist in Paris and a friend of Gertrude Stein's.
Note
Gift of Edouard Roditi, 1974.
[The reunion. n.p. (English), n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Male, Kathleen, 1898- (Full name: Mrs. Kathleen Hale McClean, Mrs. Douglas McClean)
Physical Description: 1 item. 22.5 × 17.5 cm. Original watercolor painting. In a carved wood frame, 33.5 × 28.5cm.
Scope and Content Note
A picture of Orlando, the Marmalade Cat, with his wife, Grace, jumping into his arms, while three kittens jump with joy. It
is not known in which of the Orlando books this picture was used.
Albert Einstein. n.p., 1930.
Creator/Collector: Halpern, S.
Physical Description: 1 item. 14.5 × 10 cm. Pen and ink drawing. Double mounted, 24.5 × 16.5 cm.
Note
Gift of flo and Jo Swerling.
Drawings. London, v.d.
Creator/Collector: Hammond, Chris, d. 1900
Physical Description: 3 items. Original pen and ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Book illustrations. One of them, captioned, Marianne wrapped up in her own music, is for Jane Austen's
Sense and Sensibility, London, George Allen, 1899; reproduced on p.145. The others are not identified.
Note
From the collection of Alma Murray, the actress.
Laura said to him with many blushes ... n.p., 1897.
Creator/Collector: Hammond, Chris, d. 1900
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 19 cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration (no.5, Chapter 21) for
The History of Pendennis, by William Makepeace Thackeray, London, Service & Paton, 1897.
Departing fllet. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Hansen, Armin Carl, 1886-1957
Physical Description: 1 item. 6.3 × 9.2 cm. Etching.
Scope and Content Note
Signed twice in the plate, titled and signed in pencil below the plate line. A number in the lower corner of the sheet, Ha.274,
suggests it may have been in an exhibition catalog.
Note
Ex-libris: W.W. Robinson.
* Leonardo da Vinci. [n.p., 1972].
Creator/Collector: Happ, Alta Smith
Physical Description: 1 item. 45 × 60.1 cm. Art original: collage. Framed 48.5 × 63 cm. Constructed of da Vinci reproductions, colored tissue paper,
and oils.
Note
Gift of Mark Fisher, 1981.
Harry Ogilvie. [London? 18--].
Physical Description: 1 item. 20 × 12.5 cm. Original pencil and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for Harry Ogilvie by James Grant. London, Routledge [18--] Sadleir 3568 [10]. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook,
disassembled by Justin Schiller.
Street Sweeper. [n.p., ca. 1901].
Creator/Collector: Hazenplug, Frank
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 14.3 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for Olive Percival's
Mexico City; An Idler's Notebook. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone. 1901. (F/1386/P41m).
* Portrait of General William Starke Rosecrans. n.p., 1862.
Creator/Collector: Healy, George Peter Alexander, 1813-1894
Physical Description: 1 item. Approximately 125 × 100.5 cm. Original oil painting. In gold frame, approximately 161 × 136 cm.
Note
Bequest of William Starke Rosecrans III, 1981.
Negative available no. D-588.
Illustrations for Susan Ferrier's
Marriage. [England] 1896.
Creator/Collector: Hennessy, William John, 1839-1917
Physical Description: 25 items. 29 × 23 cm. Original pen and ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Susan Ferrier's
Marriage was originally published in 1818. These unpublished drawings were probably intended for a projected edition in Macmillan's
Cranford Series.
The drawings are numbered: 4, 6-8, 11-15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 26-30, 32, 33-35, 37, 38.
What have we got to sing about in L.A.? [art original]: a special / written and produced by Bruce Henstell - [Los Angeles,
1985].
Creator/Collector: Henstell, Bruce
Physical Description: 1 sheet: col. ill. ; 21.5 × 28 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Rubber stamp art promotional announcement of a television program on music about Los Angeles, starring Steve Allen, broadcast
September 30, 1985.
Watercolor drawings, n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Herbert,
Physical Description: 5 items. Original watercolor drawings.
Scope and Content Note
These watercolor drawings depict fantastic scenes and beasts. They originally belonged to Frederick Tennyson, elder brother
of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and were supposedly painted by Herbert, a contemporary of Tennyson's at Eton, ca. 1827.
* Christmas Gifts. [Los Angeles] 1934.
Creator/Collector: Hersholt, Jean, 1886-1956
Physical Description: 1 item. 46 × 35 cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Signed presentation to Ernest Dawson.
Note
Ex-libris: Ernest Dawson.
The Mathew orama for 1827, or Cockney gleanings. Aint that a good un now? [London? 1827?].
Creator/Collector: Hervieu, Augustine Jean, 1794-
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 25 cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Removed from an unidentified book. Lithography by A. Ducote.
Southern California landscapes. v.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Herzog, Herman, 1832-1932
Physical Description: 3 items. 20 × 29.5 cm. Oil paintings.
Scope and Content Note
On wooden stretchers, titled in pencil on verso: 1) From the old Mexican quarters near Los Angeles; 2) Mexican hut and palmettos
in Los Angeles; 3) Mexican hut near San Diego.
Note
[Shelved in Document Box].
* Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon. Engraved by C. Metz. London, Chamberlaine, 1792.
Creator/Collector: Holbein, Hans,
the younger, 1497-1543
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 × 25 cm. Stipple engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Printed in color on pink paper, with an additional leaf of biographical text [by Edmund Lodge]. From
Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein in the Collection of His Majesty, for Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII.
Note
Gift of Paul Jordan Smith, 1963.
Geranium, rhododendron, and other botanical prints, Belgium, France and England, 1800-1870.
Creator/Collector: Holt, Frances, Damon,
collector
Physical Description: 38 items.
Scope and Content Note
A collection of botanical prints consisting of colored lithographs and handcolored engravings.
Note
Gift of Mrs. Frances Damon Holt.
There is a register in the collections file.
[Shelved *].
Homes of British authors. v.p. (England), ca. 187-?
Physical Description: 3 items. Ink wash drawings.
Scope and Content Note
1) Dovecot, Canon Kingsley's birthplace; 2) Favorite residence of Hannah More in Wrinton, Somerset; 3) Another residence of
Hannah More's(?).
Mencken. [n.p.], 1933.
Creator/Collector: Hood, Richard, 1910-
Physical Description: 1 item. 23.5 × 21.5 cm. image. Original etching. 27 × 21.5 cm. full sheet.
Scope and Content Note
Signed in the lower margin by Hood and Mencken.
* [Landscape. California(?), ca. 1949].
Creator/Collector: Huxley, Aldous Leonard, 1894-1963
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 42.3 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
First award Angelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival, Lancaster, California, 1949.
Note
Ex-libris: Gerald Heard.
Gift of J. Michael Barrie.
* Esh-ta-hum-leah, a Sioux chief. Drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment. Philadelpia, E.C.
Biddle, c. 1837.
Creator/Collector: I.T. Bowen,
lithographers
Physical Description: 1 item. 50 × 36 cm. Hand colored lithograph, mounted and matted.
Scope and Content Note
From M'Kenney and Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia, 1836-44. After a painting by Charles
Bird King, 1785-1862, from the Indian Gallery, formerly in the War Department at Washington, D.C. Eshtatumbah (Eshtahumleah
is a misspelling) was a hereditary chief of the Teton tribe of the Dakota nation. His name means Sleepy Eyes.
* 25 charcoal drawings. n.p. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Ignon
Physical Description: Various sizes, 13 × 15 to 5 × 8.
* Jemima Claverton; or, The slanderer published.
Physical Description: 3 items. 59 × 84 cm. Mounted on blue paper.
Scope and Content Note
Ink and wash drawings to illustrate the book published by John Harris in 1808 (Moon 409).
Note
[Shelved with
The Lily].
* [Serena] London, 1790.
Creator/Collector: Jones, John, 1740-1797
Physical Description: 1 item. 38 × 28 cm. plate mark. Engraving. Paper size 53 × 28 cm. Proof before lettering.
Scope and Content Note
Portrait of Honora Edgeworth, daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Honora Sneyd Edgeworth, after a painting by George
Romney. The engraving information is supplied but the title is not yet printed.
* Jones family residence, Gold Hill. Virginia City, Nevada, ca. 1880.
Physical Description: 1 item. 26 × 34 cm. Photograph. Mounted, 33 × 41 cm.
The poetry bookshop. n.p. 1926.
Creator/Collector: Kauffer, E. McKnight, 1890 -
Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing.
Note
Gift of Robert Vosper.
What hydraulic mining is doing for the country. Sacramento, The Bee [n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Keller, G.F.
Physical Description: 3 Color picture. 36 × 57 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Lithograph depicting the harmful effects of hydraulic mining.
Little Red Riding Hood. Lith. by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. New York, F.P. Whiting [ca. 1860].
Creator/Collector: Kellogg, Edmund Burke, 1809-
Physical Description: 1 item. 32 × 23.5 cm. Colored lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Red Riding Hood is pictured in the woods with a pet.
Note
Gift of Mexicer Brown.
Drawings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Kemble, Edward Windsor, 1861-1933
Physical Description: 4 items. Original pen and ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Publishing history unknown.
Illustrations for The Biglow papers, by James Russell Lowell. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Kemble, Edward Windsor, 1861-1933
Physical Description: 5 items. 23 × 15.5 cm. Original pen and ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
It is not known if the edition of
The Biglow Papers, for which these illustrations were done, was ever published.
Note
Gift of Vincent Price, February 1961.
George Bernard Shaw. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Kennet, Kathleen (Bruce) Young, baroness, 1878-1947
Physical Description: 1 item. 55 cm. Bronze figure.
Scope and Content Note
Full figure of Shaw leaning against a stump, with arms and ankles crossed. Signed in the base, K. Scott. Lady Kennet used
the name Kathleen Scott to sign her works.
Note
Gift of Mr. And Mr. Jo Swerling.
* A rose is a rose is a rose. n.p. (Los Angeles?) n.d.
Creator/Collector: Keat, Corita, 1918
Physical Description: 1 item. 25 × 35.5 cm. Signed serigraph.
Casanova escaping over the leads. New York, 1925.
Creator/Collector: Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971
Physical Description: 1 item. 19 × 13 cm. Woodcut.
Scope and Content Note
Signed in pencil. Frontispiece for vol.4 of
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt. Aventuros [edition] New York, 1925. (D285.8/C26A2E/1925).
Wind.
Creator/Collector: Kidocoro, Yoshimi
Physical Description: Framed wood-block print. (#59?) 16.5 × 23.
The birds. [Los Angeles? ca. 197-].
Creator/Collector: Kilbride, Vincent F.
Physical Description: 1 item. 21.5 × 27.7 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Reprographic copy of original cartoon depicting birds giving psychological advice. Signed in lower right-hand corner VK in
a circle.
Note
Gift of Mr. Kilbride, 1975.
Aldus. [n.p., 1950].
Creator/Collector: Kredel, Fritz, 1900-
Physical Description: 1 item. 32.5 × 23.5 cm. Pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Drawing of the statuette presented by the Limited Editions Club for distinguished service to the world of books. Printed on
the cover of the program for the club's 21st birthday, May 11, 1950. With the drawing is a copy of the program in its printed
envelope.
Drawings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Kredel, Fritz, 1900-
Physical Description: 4 items. Originals.
Scope and Content Note
Contents: Watercolor and ink drawing, 24.5 × 15 cm., of Pinocchio and an eagle. This is similar but not identical to the illustration
on p.84 of Lorenzini's
Pinocchio, illustrated by Kredel, N.Y., Grossett & Dunlap, 1946; 3 ink drawings intented for the Limited Editions Club edition of
Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Kredel, Offenbach, 1931, but not used.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard Meeks.
Linoleum block print of a pipe player. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Kronfeld, Marion
Physical Description: 24.1 × 31.8 cm. no.12/39. In grey paper folder with Roma watermark.
Scope and Content Note
Originally done for poster by Plantin Press for Coctetto di Roma at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall in 1960. This private reissue done
for friends of the Arundel Press in 1987.
Note
Gift of Philip Bevis.
* Downieville, 1856. Sierra County, California. Drawn from nature and on stone by Kuchel & Dresel. San Francisco, A.T. Langton, 1856.
Creator/Collector: Kuchel, Charles C. 1820-
Physical Description: 1 item. 47.5 × 63.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Printed by Britton & Rey. Center panel surrounded by 24 small pictures of residences, business establishments, and public
buildings.
Ôboshi Yuranosuke. [n.p. (Japan), ca. 1880].
Creator/Collector: Kuniaki, fl. 1847-1888
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 25 cm. Original colored woodblock print.
Scope and Content Note
Ôboshi Yuranosuke is a character in the kabuki play,
Kanatehon Chûshingura (
The Forty-seven Samurai). In this print he is depicted by the actor, Nizaemon Kataoka. The block was cut by Ken Koizumi.
Note
Ex-libris: B. St. Denis.
* Land of Sunshine Posters. Los Angeles, 1896.
Physical Description: 12 items. Cyanotypes.
Scope and Content Note
Broadside posters for March, April, June, August-December, plus variants for April, August, and October. Probably the first
magazine posters to appear in Los Angeles; produced by a combination of letterpress and cyanotype, a photographic process
of which Charles Lummis, the editor, was an exponent.
[Fantail goldfish. n.p., 194-?].
Creator/Collector: Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Physical Description: 1 item. 15.5 × 18cm. Original woodcut.
Scope and Content Note
Printed on tissue, signed in pencil. Probably one of a series issued by the Woodcut Society of Alexandria, Virginia.
Note
Ex-libris: Henry Goldman.
[I fell at the feet of Mr. Dickens. n.p., ca. 1929].
Creator/Collector: Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Physical Description: 1 item. 8.5 × 11.4cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.140 of Rachel Field's
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. New York, Macmillan, 1929. Presentation copy from the artist to Bernard M. Meeks.
* Kou Hsiung. Alexandria, Virginia, The Woodcut Society, 1944.
Creator/Collector: Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Physical Description: 1 item. 15.5 × 18cm. Original woodcut.
Scope and Content Note
Printed on tissue, 24 × 26.5 cm., and signed in pencil. Overmatted, and with a facing page of text and a cover title.
Note
Ex-libris: Walter O. Schneider.
* A portfolio of fifteen monsters ... with prefatory poem by Jake Zeitlin. Los Angeles, 1925.
Creator/Collector: Laudermilk, Jerome D.
Physical Description: 1 item. 51 × 42 cm. Watercolor drawings. Text in manuscript. Laid into batik portfolio.
Scope and Content Note
Presented by the artist and author to Paul Jordan Smith, 1925.
Note
Gift of Wilbur Jordan Smith, 1978.
[Untitled etching].
Creator/Collector: Laurencin, Marie
Physical Description: This etching was found cut but not removed from
Dix filles dans un pre by Jean-Richard Block (call no.A 000 061 895 9). It was between p.28 and p.29. The other 3 etchings in the book have been
stolen. 12.8 × 18.8 cm.
* The entertaining history of Robin Hood, & Little John, &c. London, 1809.
Creator/Collector: Laurie & Whittle,
publishers
Physical Description: 1 item. 48 × 38cm. (full sheet.) Hand colored, engraved letter sheet.
Scope and Content Note
The letter sheet is bordered with a large engraving at the head, three smaller ones on each side, and a small one at the foot.
Note
Ex-libris: d'Alte Welch.
* The good scholar rewarded, and bad one punished. London, 1794.
Creator/Collector: Laurie & Whittle,
publishers
Physical Description: 1 item. 48 × 38cm. (full sheet.) Hand colored, engraved letter sheet.
Scope and Content Note
The letter sheet is bordered with a large engraving at the head, three smaller ones on each side, and a decorative piece at
the foot.
Note
Ex-libris: d'Alte Welch.
* Puss in Boots, an entertaining school-piece: By Young slyboots. London, 1802.
Creator/Collector: Laurie & Whittle,
publishers
Physical Description: 1 item. 48 × 38cm. (full sheet.) Hand colored, engraved letter sheet.
Scope and Content Note
The letter sheet is bordered with a large engraving at the head, three smaller ones on each side, and a decorative piece at
the foot.
Note
Ex-libris: d'Alte Welch.
* The Hawker. [n.p., ca. 1934].
Creator/Collector: Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957
Physical Description: 1 item. 22 × 14 cm. Original ink drawing. Matted, 46 × 34 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[7] of W.W. Tarn's
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist. New York, Putnam's, 1934. Inscribed on the mat to Bernard M. Meeks with best wishes, Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill: July 10,
1945.
Leaf paintings, n.p., ca. 182-?
Physical Description: 7 items. Approximately 15 × 12 cm. Original tempera paintings.
Scope and Content Note
Birds and butterflies amidst flowers, painted on dried pipal leaves, leaves from an Indian ficus also known as the bo or bodhi
tree. Such paintins are a popular form of folk art, sold widely in India for greeting cards or souvenirs.
New toy. [n.p., ca. 1944].
Creator/Collector: Lee, Doris, 1905-
Physical Description: 1 item. 24.5 × 23 cm. Original watercolor and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced facing p.3 of James Thurber's
The Great Quillow. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1944.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustrations for
The Scattergood Family, by Albert Smith. London, ca. 1845.
Creator/Collector: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Physical Description: 2 items. Original pencil and crayon drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Albert Smith's
The Scattergood Family was first published in threee volumes by Richard Bentley, London, 1845. Sadleir no.3096. One drawing, The Funny Gentlemen's
arrival, vol.1, facing p.46, measures 19 × 12 cm., in a Whatman mat, 34 × 26 cm. The other drawing, This is my roof said Mr.
Fogg, vol.1, facing p.57, measures 15.5 × 13 cm., in a Whatman mat, 29.5 × 25 cm.
Political cartoon, ... [word missing] for India, Mr. Punch throwing a shoe for better luck. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Leech, John, 1817-1864
Physical Description: 1 item. 24.5 × 30 cm. Original drawing.
Scope and Content Note
The drawing shows a general on a camel, with Mr. Punch throwing a shoe. This was published in Punch, date unknown.
Note
Ex-libris: C.K. Ogden.
Across a narrow shelf, a group of little wooden figures were turning and dancing in time to the music. [n.p., ca. 1940].
Creator/Collector: Lenski, Louis, 1893-
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 23 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced as the frontispiece of Lois Lenski's
Blueberry Corners. New York, Lippincott, 1940. The above caption appears in the book, but not on the original drawing. Inscribed by the artist
to Bernard Meeks.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Drawing of James Joynce. n.p., 1920.
Creator/Collector: Lewis, Wyndham, 1886-1957.
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 28 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Signed in ink by the artist. It is not known how many copies of this drawing were reproduced.
Note
Purchase: Schwartz, October 1, 1941.
Library views. v.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 8 items. Original prints.
Scope and Content Note
Colored engravings of the Vatican Library, Oxford University libraries, and Cambridge University libraries.
The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday.
Physical Description: Framed: 20 × 25.
Scope and Content Note
Poster advertising weekly and monthly issues published by Hogarth House Edition.
*
The lily: A book for children.
Physical Description: 23 items. 59 × 71 cm. Mounted on blue paper. Ink and wash drawings
Scope and Content Note
To illustrate the book published by John Harris in 1808 (Moon 671B).
The little merchant. [London? ca. 1859].
Physical Description: 1 item. 14 × 8.7 cm. Original pen and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for
The little merchant by Maria Edgeworth. London, Routledge [ca. 1859]. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook, disassembled by Justin Schiller.
* Hanna: That man Clay was an ass. It's better to be president than to be right. New York, 1899.
Creator/Collector: Luks, George Benjamin, 1867-1933
Physical Description: 1 item. 31.5 × 24.5 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted 48 × 38.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoon removed from
The Verdict, March 13, 1899, vol.1 no.13, p.20.
* Portrait of Carlota. Los Angeles, 1896.
Creator/Collector: Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
Physical Description: 1 item. 40.5 × 15.6 cm. Cyanotype photograph. Mounted and overmatted: 50.5 × 40.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Photograph advertises an article on Navajo songs by Dr. Washington Matthews in the October issue of
Land of Sunshine, 1896.
Note
(In *Original 99,
Land of Sunshine Posters. Los Angeles, 1896).
Manoeuvring. [London? ca. 1859].
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 10 cm. Original pencil and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for
Maneuvring by Maria Edgeworth. London, Routledge [ca. 1859] Routledge Cheap Library no.138. From an Edmund Evans scrapbook, disassembled
by Justin Schiller.
A Maori war canoe. Christchurch, New Zealand, AvonFine Prints, 1967.
Physical Description: 1 item. 20 × 55 cm. Hand-tinted photolithograph.
Scope and Content Note
From the illustrations to
Captain Cook's First Voyage, 1768-71, after an original drawing by an artist presumed to have been on the voyage. Issued with a sheet of text.
* Profile portrait of Gertrude Stein. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Marcoussis, Louis, 1878-1941
Physical Description: 35.5 × 27.5 cm. Drypoing engraving.
Scope and Content Note
no.8 of an edition of 10. Signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin.
La daguerreotypomanie. [Paris, 1839].
Creator/Collector: Maurisset, Théodore
Physical Description: 1 item. 25 × 35.5. cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
This caricature deriding the mania which hit Paris with the introduction of Daguerre's invention is explained in detail in
Helmut Gernsheim's
History of photography [c. 1969], pp.71-72 (*TR 16.1 G319h 1969). Copy 2 is a color reproduction.
Bust of Israel Zangwill. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Mielziner, Leo, 1869-1935
Physical Description: 1 item. 26 cm. high, including pedestal. In bronze.
Note
[Vault].
Drawings. v.p., v.d.
Creator/Collector: Mielziner, Leo, 1869-1935
Physical Description: 2 items. Original pencil drawings.
Scope and Content Note
1) Portrait of Georges Brandes. Paris, 1904. 1 leaf. 15 × 10 cm. Green paper. With this: Letter, signed Dad, from Mielziner
to his son, Kenneth MacKenna, explaining drawing. Truro, Massachusetts, August 19, 1935. 1 leaf. Typescript. Gift of Kenneth
MacKenna, August 1959. 2) Portrait of Max Nordau. Basle, 1906. 1 leaf. 12 × 8.5 cm.
Note
Gift of Mrs. Leo Mielziner.
* Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed's new French cook. New York, Underwood & Underwood, c. 1900.
Physical Description: 10 items. 9 × 17.5 cm. Stereographs.
Scope and Content Note
Comic stereographs series, mounted for exhibit with captions enlarged, 70 × 35 cm.
* Caricatures of Parisians. Paris, ca. 185-?
Creator/Collector: Monnier, Henri Bonaventure, 1799-1877
Physical Description: 98 items. Handcolored lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Recréations du coeur ... (21 items). Paris vivant (20 items). Petites félicites humaines (4 items). Petites misères humaines
(5 items). Béranger, Chansons (27 items). Les grisettes (15 items). Moerus Parisiennes (6 items).
Note
Gift of Gordon Ray.
Collection of wood engravings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Moore, Thomas Sturge, 1870-1944
Physical Description: 16 items. Original prints.
Scope and Content Note
Includes, The Centaur's Wedding, The Little Mother, Pan Mountain, Pan's Islands, and Pan and Psyche at the Summit of the Land.
Portrait of Lewis Carroll. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Moser, Barry
Physical Description: 30.3 × 22.6 cm. Woodblock print.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by Barry Moser. no.8 of 100.
Self-portrait. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Moser, Barry
Physical Description: 28.8 × 20.9 cm.
Note
Gift of Justin Schiller, 1987.
Wild Bill Hickock: a resident of Deadwood, 1878. no.18. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Moser, Barry
Physical Description: 19.8 × 30.3 cm. Pencil and ink drawing.
Illustrations for Adventures of the little girl in the wood. London? 1808?
Creator/Collector: [Mulready, William, 1786-1863]
Physical Description: 3 items. 6.5 × 9 cm. Original wash drawings.
Scope and Content Note
A full set of the original drawings for
Adventures of the little girl in the wood, London, Harris, 1808. The illustrations have been attributed to William Mulready.
Note
A copy of this work is in Special Collections' Children's Book Collection.
Old Russian cookery. (Los Angeles, 1947)
Creator/Collector: Murman, Eugene Otto Walter, 1874-1962
Physical Description: 1 item. 35.3 × 25.3 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
Cover design for an unpublished cookbook.
Note
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Murman.
New Almaden, California - Views
Physical Description: Original pencil sketch; size 7 × 10.
Scope and Content Note
Dated October 13, 1858. Artist unknown.
* Noah's ark. London, A. Park [ca. 1840].
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 31 cm. Hand-colored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts the animals parading into the ark. Sub-captioned And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh
wherein is the breath of life. Genesis Chapter 7, verse 15.
Note
Beauchamp Bookshop purchase, catalog 19, no.240 (1954).
An oval school piece. no.22. London, Bowles and Carver, 1794.
Physical Description: 1 item. 45 × 37 cm. Original engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Contemporary hand colored engraving with the center oval, To David Garrick...Testimonies to the Merits and Genius of Shakespeare...,
written by Rowland Evans and inscribed by T. Tomkins, 1797.
Palmer Cox's famous Brownie books. New York, The Century Company, [ca. 1895].
Physical Description: 1 leaf. 25.5 × 38.5 cm. Broadside.
Scope and Content Note
An advertisement for the Brownie books. Depicts the Brownies in color holding up five of the Brownie books.
James Branch Cabell. n.p., 1930.
Creator/Collector: Papé, Frank C.
Physical Description: 1 items. 48 × 33 cm. Original engraving, signed by the aritist in ink.
Scope and Content Note
A portrait of James Branch Cabell. This is one of the 210 Impressions, of which 200 are for sale, and plate has been destroyed.
A Parliamentary demonstration, on the XXIVth April Anno Dom. MDCCCXLVL. n.p., (English), 1847(?)
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.5 (including caption) × 24 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Depicted are three men, probably Sir Robert Peel, Lord George Bentinck, and Benjamin Disraeli. Inscribed to V. D'Israeli (sic)
Esquire with the Author's Compliments.
* Pen and ink drawing on tracing paper of a large steam engine, no.903, being cleaned. For
The caboose who got loose by Bill Peet.
Creator/Collector: Peet, Bill
Physical Description: 29.9 × 48.8 cm. Inscribed: For Damiana Chavez.
Note
Gift of Damina Chavez.
* The Press room of the Musée Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp. n.p., 188-.
Creator/Collector: Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
Physical Description: 1 item. 25.2 × 29.7 cm. Original ink drawing. Mounted and matted 40.2 × 55.8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for A Printer's Paradise, by Theodore L. DeVinne, published in the
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, vol.36 no.2, June 1888, p.235. Signed in the drawing.
Aldous Huxley. Santa Barbara, California, ca. 1945.
Creator/Collector: Petrie, Maria Zimmern, 1887
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 cm. Bronze bust.
Gertrude Stein, Paris, 193-.
Creator/Collector: Picabia, Francis, 1878-1946
Physical Description: 1 item. 102.5 × 82.5 cm. Oil portrait. Framed, 115.5 × 100 cm.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
Woodcuts. Hammersmith, 1906-1911.
Creator/Collector: Pissarro, Lucien, 1863-1944
Physical Description: 8 items. Original colored woodcuts.
Scope and Content Note
7 of these (each the second print of an edition of 12) are for Judith Gautier's Poemes tires du Livre de Jade. Hammersmith,
Eragny Press, 1911. 1 (the second print of an eidtion of 12) is the frontispiece for Songs by Ben Jonson. Hammersmith, Eragny
Presss, 1906.
Playground. [England? ca. 1780-90].
Physical Description: 1 item. 13 × 9.5 cm. Ink wash drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts schoolboys playing outside a tall school building next to a church.
Portrait of Damiana Chavez. Pencil on cardboard box lid. 1973.
Creator/Collector: Politi, Leo, 1908 -
Physical Description: 35.5 × 25.8 cm.
Note
Gift of Damiana Chavez.
* Pomona Assembly Center. [Pomona, California, ca. 1942].
Physical Description: 1 item. 32.5 × 39 cm. Watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
From the W.E. Dimon papers. Inscribed to Dimon by Rosa Sato who may have painted it.
[Portrait of an old Persian man. n.p. (Persian?), n.d.].
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 19 cm. Original watercolor painting on silk. Matted on green paper, 30.5 × 22.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
An old man with a beard and turban is depicted against a Persian rug. Artist unknown.
Note
From the Minasian Collection.
Portrait of Baron Fisher, Baltimore photographer. [n.p., ca. 1865].
Physical Description: 1 item. 11 × 7 cm. Tintype.
Note
Gift of Albert Boni.
Portrait of D.W. Seager. n.p., n.d.
Physical Description: 1 item. 1/16 plate daguerreotype.
Scope and Content Note
The portrait has been identified as Segur or Seager, the man reputed to have made the first daguerreotype in the United States.
* Portraits of Martha Graham. n.p., v.d.
Physical Description: 5 items.
Scope and Content Note
1 original ink drawing and two lithograph copies by Gail Trowbridge, 50 × 33 cm.; 1 engraving, Frontier, by Nik Kunvizky(?),
1940, 35 × 27 cm.; 1 charcoal drawing by Eric. 49 × 47 cm.
Two photomechanical reproductions of photgraphs by Pratt and Baker of Paseo de Los Angeles.
Creator/Collector: Pratt, Ernest Mitchell, 1876-1945, and Baker, Viroque
Scope and Content Note
1) Olvera Street (numbered 16); 2) Casa Avila Adobe (numbered 29).
Very cheap, very cheap indeed, Sir. [London? ca. 1801?].
Creator/Collector: A pretty copy - after an unique original
Physical Description: Colored engraving. 11.4 × 9 cm., including caption.
Scope and Content Note
Caricature of Dr. Isaac Gosset, book-collector and bibliographer, at an auction. Cf. George, Mary D. Catalogue of political
and personal satires, no.9773, of which this is a variant. A manuscript note identifies the subject as Reverend Dr. Gilchrist,
possible a private.
* Tiki Motel. Serigraph. 1982. no.21/26.
Creator/Collector: Price, Kenneth, 1935 -
Physical Description: 313mm × 376mm.
Scope and Content Note
One of a series made by Ken Price for The plain of smokes, in collaboration with Harvey Mudd, and published by Arabesque Books
in 1981. (S/C call no. **PS 3563 M883p).
* Prince Le Boo. [London? s.l., 182-?].
Creator/Collector: Prince Le Boo
Physical Description: 1 item. 15.5 × 38 cm. Handcolored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
A panorama with three scenes: Prince le Boo offers thehorse an orange; Prince Le Boo, embarking for Englan; Prince Le Boo's
astonishment at seeing himself in the glass.
Note
Beauchamp Bookshop purchase, catalog 19, no.240 (1954).
Collection of pictures which change their appearance when viewed through the light. London, ca. 1855.
Creator/Collector: Protean views
Physical Description: 71 items. Original lithographs, hand-colored.
Scope and Content Note
Includes pictures of Vesuvius, Queen Victoria, her Coronation, the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon, and the Thames Tunnel.
Note
Items formerly in this collection are now listed individually on ORION. JD iii/89.
Wood-engraving proof sheet illustration for New York Colonial Privateers by Thomas A. Janvier. n.p., ca. 1895.
Creator/Collector: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911
Physical Description: 1 item. 18.5 × 12 cm. Original wood-engraving proof.
Scope and Content Note
Signed by the engraver, A.M. Lindsay. Originally published in
Harper's Magazine, February 1895. The published picture is entitled: Barbarously Murdered the First, and Grievously Wounded the Latter.
John and Rosalind Randall.
Creator/Collector: Quayles, Bunston
Physical Description: 1 item. 25.5 × 27.5 cm. Original pen and ink drawing with pencil[?] coloring.
Scope and Content Note
The Randalls are the Whittington Press, which is in Leominster, Herefordshire, England.
Note
Gift of Lorson's Books and Prints.
The Bogey Beast. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
Physical Description: 1 item. Approximately 20 × 14.5 cm. Original watercolor drawing. Framed, 59 × 49 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Identified in pencil on the back as being drawn for English Fairy Tales. Depicts an old woman before her cottage with a great,
smoke-like beast coming up behind her.
Painting, signed. n.p., 1904.
Creator/Collector: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 × 28 cm. Original watercolor. Matted; unframed.
Scope and Content Note
Painting of a fairy surrounded by six little grotesques. Publishing history unknown.
* Untitled drawing done for the National Book Leage, London. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
Physical Description: 1 item. 31 × 23 cm. Original watercolor drawing. Framed, 50 × 40 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts a bookish scene with humans and elves fraternizing over books. The character on the right is supposed to be Rackham
himself.
Alexander von Humboldt. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Rauch, Christian Daniel, 1777-1857
Physical Description: 1 item. 48.5 cm. Bronze bust.
Scope and Content Note
After the original marble in Berlin, ca. 182-?
Note
Gift of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Fur Jung und Alt. [n.p. (Germany?) 185-?].
Creator/Collector: Reinhardt, C.
Physical Description: 1 item. 20 × 32.5 cm. Handcolored lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
A series of panels with verse captions despict the woes of a photographer as he struggles with the elements and with the patrons.
Note
Gift of Albert Boni.
Drawings. n.p. (Germany), n.d.
Creator/Collector: Richter, Ludwig, 1803-1884
Physical Description: 2 items. Original drawings. In sepia ink.
Scope and Content Note
One drawing (11.5 × 8 cm.) is of a girl putting up a floral garland in a doorway. In pencil and subtle watercolors; signed,
L.R. Another (8.5 × 12 cm.) is of a group of deer in a wood, enclosed in a rustic ornamental border. Signed, L.R.
Note
Ex-libris: Walter O. Schneider.
French street scenes, 17th century. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Robida, Albert, 1848-1926
Physical Description: 2 items. 26 × 21 cm. Original watercolors.
Scope and Content Note
Costumes of ladies, gentlemen, and soldiers are of particular interest.
* The nightingale. [London?, 1913?].
Creator/Collector: Robinson, William Heath, 1822-1944
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 28.8 cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's
Fairy Tales, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Note
Gift of Brooke Whiting, 1975.
* The unknown voyages of Anais Nin.
Creator/Collector: Robyns, Annette
Physical Description: 1 item. 60.5 × 40.5 cm. Engraving.
Scope and Content Note
no.1 of an edition of 25. Artist describes engraving as an intaglio print.
Barnyard scene. [n.p.], 1944.
Creator/Collector: Rojankovsky, Feodor, 1891-
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 23 cm. Original chalk and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Probably an illustration for a children's book. Publication undetermined. Inscribed To Lt. B. Meeks with my best wishes F.
Rojankovsky, '44.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Abraham Lincoln.
n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Romanelli, Carlo, 1872-
Physical Description: 1 item. 40 cm. Bronze bust.
Scope and Content Note
Not from life. Romanelli was born in Italy and came to Los Angeles in 1910.
Alice B. Toklas. Paris, 193-.
Creator/Collector: Rose, Sir Francis Cyril, Bart., 1909-
Physical Description: 1 item. 40 × 30 cm. Pencil sketch profile portrait. Framed, 57.5 × 45 cm.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
The house at Bilignin. Bilignin, France, 193-.
Creator/Collector: Rose, Sir Francis Cyril, Bart., 1909-
Physical Description: 1 item. 27.5 × 42.5 cm. Oil painting. Framed, 37.5 × 55 cm.
Scope and Content Note
A view of Gertrude Stein's residence in France.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
Watercolor painting of two girls bidding their soldier friend farewell.
n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
Physical Description: 1 item. 18.5 × 10.5 cm. Original watercolor. Mounted on cardboard, 21.5 × 15.5 cm. Unframed.
Scope and Content Note
Signed, T. Rowlandson.
* Portrait of Mel royer. [Los Angeles, California,
1974].
Creator/Collector: Royer, Dorothy Marion (Hewes), 1911-
Physical Description: 1 item. 30.5 × 22 cm. Ink drawing. Mounted and overmatted, 45.5 × 35.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Signed on the drawing in pencil.
Note
Gift of Peggy Christian, 1981.
Buggalo, n.p., 1921.
Creator/Collector: Russell, Charles Marion, 1864-1926
Physical Description: 2 items. 18 × 17cm. Pair of bronze bookends.
Scope and Content Note
Recastings from the originals.
Note
Gift of Kenneth Karmiole and the Heritage Book Store, 1975.
Riverside House and cottages, Santa Cruz. San Francisco
[ca. 1892].
Creator/Collector: Saalburg, Charles W.,
lithographer
Physical Description: 1 item. 35 × 55 cm. Original lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
Panoramic view including recreational aspects of the resort. The picture is bordered by advertisements for Santa Cruz business
establishments.
Note
[Shelved *].
* San Francisco imports. San Francisco,
[c.1905].
Creator/Collector: Samish, Louis R.
Physical Description: 1 poster. 35 × 27.5 cm. Color print.
Scope and Content Note
Advertising poster for C.M. Freed, 412-414 Sacramento St., San Francisco, importer of teas, coffees, spices, flavoring, extracts,
and pure olive oil. The picture is of two Chinese children carrying a bucket between them, stepping off a curb.
* Redondo hotel, Redondo, Cal. San Francisco, [189-?].
Creator/Collector: Schmidt Label and Lithograph Company, San Francisco
Physical Description: 1 item. 25.5 × 32.5 cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
The hotel is shown facing a cove in which are sail boats and steam boats.
The Albrecht Dürer house in Nuremberg. 1891.
Creator/Collector: Schotte, L.
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 14 cm. Watercolor.
* Die Pantomine, Bl.23 from the series Theater-Costumes. Vienna: M. Trentsensky, ca. 1825.
Creator/Collector: Schwind, Mortiz von, 1804-1871
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 26.5 cm. Lithograph, hand colored.
Scope and Content Note
The fifth of a series of 5 images. Cf
Die kleine Welt des Bolderbogens (1977), 165.
Note
Gift of Samuel Katz, 1995.
Mark Twain. [Los Angeles, ca. 1969].
Creator/Collector: Seletz, Emil, 1909-
Physical Description: 1 item. 24.2 cm. Sculptured bust. Silver set on a variegated black marble base 11.4 cm. square
Scope and Content Note
Portraying Samuel Clemens in later life.
Note
Gift of Alfred Menzies, D.D.S., given in memory of Jeanette Seletz, 1977.
Drawing. London, 1921.
Creator/Collector: Shepperson, Claude Allin, 1867-1921
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 × 36 cm. Original pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
This drawing depicts a mother and doctor looking at a sick child; the caption reads, Doctor - And how is our young patient
this morning? Infant Prodigy - Thank you, I'm exhausted and exacting. With a letter (London, July 16, 1921) from E.V. Lucas
to Shepperson mounted on the reverse of the drawing, suggesting the subject and caption. Publishing history unknown.
* Design for the dust jacket of
Railway Engineer. [n.p., ca. 1914].
Creator/Collector: Simon, Eric M.
Physical Description: 1 item. 32.5 × 47.5 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced (reduced about 1/3) as the dust jacket for Clara Ingram Judson's
Railway Engineer. New York, Scribners, 1914.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
* Illustration for
Many Moons. [n.p., ca. 1943].
Creator/Collector: Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-
Physical Description: 1 item. 45 × 35 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[3] of James Thurber's
Many Moons. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1943. Presentation copy from the artist to Bernard M. Meeks dated July 24, '45.
Arthur Machen. London, 1923.
Creator/Collector: Smith, Mrs. Sarah Hathaway (Bixby) 1871-1935
Physical Description: 1 item. 18 × 13 cm. Pen and ink drawing. Framed in a narrow black frame.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts Machen smoking a pipe.
Note
Ex-libris: Paul Jordan Smith. Gift of Wilbur Jordan Smith, 1975.
* Drawings. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Smith, Pamela Colman
Physical Description: 5 items. Various sizes.
Scope and Content Note
3 pencil drawings and two pen and ink proofs of figure studies, three of which are initialled by Pamela Coman Smith. Publishing
history unknown.
Note
Ex-libris: Edith Craig.
Line prints for The basket maker and other tales that will suit the young or the old. London, ca. 1901.
Creator/Collector: Smith, Pamela Colman
Physical Description: 3 items. 29.5 × 20.5 cm. Handcolored line prints. Drawings are loose in a paper cover imprinted with title, illustrator,
place of publication and date of publication.
Scope and Content Note
The basket maker was published in London, 1901. Author of The basket maker unknown.
Note
Ex-libris: Edith Craig.
Line prints for Twelfth night merry-makers. [4 copies] n.p., ca. 1898.
Creator/Collector: Smith, Pamela Colman
Physical Description: 4 items. 35 × 27 cm. Handcolored line prints. Prints are loose in a paper cover imprinted with title, illustrator, place
of publication and date of publication.
Scope and Content Note
Twelfth night merry-makers was published by R.H. Russell, New York, n.d. Author unknown. One of the identical prints is initialled
by PCS. Written on each print in ink, Copyright 1898 by W. MacBeth.
Note
Ex-libris: Edith Craig.
* Disumbrationist paintings by Pavel Jordanowitch [pseud.] Los Angeles,
1926.
Creator/Collector: Smith, Paul Jordan, 1885-
Physical Description: 5 items. Original oil paintings.
Scope and Content Note
Painted as a hoax. A full description will be found in: MacDougall, Curtis. Hoaxes. 1940. (HV 6751/ M14h).
Note
Photographs of the collection are shelved in the vertical files.
[Pen and ink drawingof an Irish peasant. n.p., January 30, 1895].
Creator/Collector: Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone, 1861-1949
Physical Description: 1 item. 33 × 21 cm. Original drawing. Unframed.
Scope and Content Note
The figure, a man, is carrying a bundle on a stick slung over his shoulder. Signed, with the date, with the initials, E.OE.S.
Spinoza. n.p., 1665.
Physical Description: 1 item. 44 × 34 cm. Original oil painting. Framed. 57 × 47 cm.
Scope and Content Note
18th century copy of a portrait in the Library of the Duke of Wolfenbüttel.
* F.W. Goudy. [n.p.], 1938.
Creator/Collector: Stern, Alexander, 1904-
Physical Description: 1 item. 32.8 × 24.4 cm. Engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Signed, titled, and dated in the plate.
Illustration for
The horse who lived upstairs. n.p., ca. 1944.
Creator/Collector: Stone, Helen, 1903-
Physical Description: 1 item. 15 × 12.5 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Variant of illustration reproduced on pp.[40-41] of Phyllis McGinley's
The Horse Who Lived Upstairs. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1944.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
* John Gilpin. Engraved by W.H. Worthington. London, Pickering and Worthington, 1825.
Creator/Collector: Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834
Physical Description: 1 item. 18 (23 with text) × 53.5 cm. Handcolored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Based upon the William Cowper poem, The Diverting History of John Gilpin.
Aloha nui loas. n.p., ca. 1889.
Creator/Collector: Strong, Isabelle
Physical Description: 1 item. Original watercolor. 113 mm. × 88 mm. Mounted: 144 mm. × 172 mm.
* Portrait of Maxwell Anderson. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Sudduth, Norman
Physical Description: 1 item. 32.1 × 33.2 cm. Watercolor drawing. Mounted and overmatted 40.3 × 44.8 cm.
Scope and Content Note
After a photograph, cf. Maxwell Anderson. By Alfred S. Shivers, 1976. (PS3501/A536S56). Signed: To David Wigransky with best
wishes Norman Sudduth.
Drawings in pen and ink for Cervantes' Don Quixote. London, 1922.
Creator/Collector: Sullivan, Edmund Joseph, 1869-1933
Physical Description: 3 items. 22.5 × 17.5 cm. Original drawings.
Scope and Content Note
1) Don Quixote as Love's Eremite. 2) A Winte-Taster of La Mancha. 3) A group of figures including the Don and Sancho Panza.
Apparently unpublished.
The Lincoln Memorial. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Swann, Samuel Donovan, 1889-
Physical Description: 1 item. 16 × 21 cm. Original etching. Matted and mounted 23.5 × 28 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Signed Don Swann, numbered 115/300.
View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-47 before the discovery of gold. San Francisco, Published by Captain
W.F. Swasey, 1884.
Creator/Collector: Swasey, William F.
Physical Description: Lithograph picture in 4 colors. 53 × 58 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Executed by the Bosqui Eng. & Printing Company, depicting San Francisco and the waterfront in 1846-47. Streets and buildings
are identified.
* The tables turned. You sabe him? Kealney must go! I.N. Choynski [San Francisco, c. 1877].
Physical Description: 1 item. 24 × 31 cm. Lithograph.
Scope and Content Note
A cartoon showing the notorious anti-Chinese orator, Dennis Kearney, behind bars in a house of correction, with six Chinese
taunting him. Thelast part of the title refers to Kearney's batte cry: The Chinese must go!
Manzanar. Manzanar, California, 194-.
Creator/Collector: Takamura, Kango
Physical Description: 71 items. Watercolor paintings.
Scope and Content Note
Kango Takamura was interned at Manzanar during the war and depicted the day to dy life of the camp in these paintings.
Note
Gift of the artist.
Color slides of the paintings are in Collection 91.
[Shelved in Document Box, also *].
Talcy chateau. Mer, France, 1841-1843.
Physical Description: 2 items. 11 × 15.5 cm. Daguerreotypes. Framed. 18 × 22.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
2 different views of Talcy chateau in the Loir and Cher region of France.
Note
Gift of Albert Boni.
* After the feast. The working man gets what is left! New York, 1899.
Creator/Collector: Taylor, Horace, 1864-1921
Physical Description: 1 item. 31.5 × 47 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted 51 × 61 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoon removed from
The Verdict, December 4, 1899, vol.2 no.26, pp.11-12.
* The battery of imperialism. Mac to mark: You've fixed them so they look all right; but I wonder which way the blamed things
are going to shoot! New York, 1900.
Creator/Collector: Taylor, Horace, 1864-1921
Physical Description: 1 item. 31.5 × 47 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted 51 × 61 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoon removed from
The Verdict, March 26, 1900, vol.3 no.16, pp.8-9.
* Republicanism down to date. Hanna: Don't be afraid, Mack, it won't make much noise! New York, 1899.
Creator/Collector: Taylor, Horace, 1864-1921
Physical Description: 1 item. 31.5 × 47 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted 51 × 61 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoon removed from
The Verdict, September 25, 1899, vol.2, no.15. pp.12-13.
* The trust giant's point of view. What a funny little government? New York, 1900.
Creator/Collector: Taylor, Horace, 1864-1921
Physical Description: 1 item. 31.5 × 47 cm. Color lithograph. Mounted and overmatted 51 × 61 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Political cartoon removed from
The Verdict, January 22, 1900, vol.3, no.7. pp.8-9.
Portrait of Charles Clerke, 1741-1779. [n.p. (English) ca. 1776].
Creator/Collector: Taylor, John,
painter
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 × 24 cm. Original watercolor painting.
Alice B. Toklas. Paris(?) 1927.
Creator/Collector: Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957
Physical Description: 1 item. 75 × 40 cm. Oil portrait. Framed, 87 × 52 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Presentation to Ms. Toklas from the artist, signed on the stretcher.
Note
Gift of Gilbert Harrison, 1974.
[Reading Room].
Drawings, London, 1895 and 1906.
Creator/Collector: Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
Physical Description: 2 items. Original ink and watercolor drawings. Unframed.
Scope and Content Note
One drawing, 29 × 19 cm., illustrates Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, London, Macmillan, 1897; the other, 32 × 24.5 cm.,
is for George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life [Janet's Repentance], London, Macmillan, 1906.
God forbit that I should grieve any young hearts. n.p. (England) 1891.
Creator/Collector: Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
Physical Description: 1 item. 24 × 20 cm. Pen and ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's
Cranford, Macmillan, 1891. Sadleir no.3750 includes this volume.
* John Sheppard. [London (?) ca. 1724].
Creator/Collector: Thornhill, James, 1675-1734
Physical Description: 1 item. 36 × 25 cm. Mezotint engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Depicts the notorious highwayman sitting in his cell at Newgate with his wrists in chains.
The Three Bears.
Scope and Content Note
8 pen and ink drawings, 3 with color overlay, of the three bears. These came with S/C backlog no.125573
The three bears published by William Walter & Sons (Otley) Limited. Otley, Yorks.
Note
[Shelved in Box w/Rick Barton Drawings].
* De Emp'rer's Palace. [New York?, 1921?].
Creator/Collector: Throckmorton, Cleon, 1897-
Physical Description: 1 item. 17 × 22 cm. Original watercolor drawing. On a sheet of watercolor paper 50 × 35 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Design for Scene 1, Eugene O'Neill's
Emperor Jones. Titled and signed in pencil by the designer.
Note
Ex-libris: Kenneth McGowan.
The fair. [London? 1804?].
Creator/Collector: Thurston, John, 1774-1822
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.4 × 7.7 cm. Original wash drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Drawn for the frontispiece, engraved by Dadley, to Harriet Ventum's
Interesting traits of character, in youth, of both sexes. London, Harris, 1804 (cataloged in the UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library. Call no.: CBC
V56i 1804).
* Portrait of Francis Hackett. Denmark, July 1946.
Creator/Collector: Toksvig, Harald
Physical Description: 1 item. 35.5 × 27.6 cm. Art reproduction.
Scope and Content Note
Francis Hackett was Toksvig's brother-in-law.
Note
Gift of Margaret M. Gage, 1981.
* Ruth St. Denis at seventy-one years painted from life. n.p., 1949.
Creator/Collector: Tompkins, Robert G.
Physical Description: 1 item. 21 × 41.5 cm. Oil portrait.
Note
Ex-libris: Arthur Todd.
* Ted Shawn at fifty-nine years painted from life. n.p., 1950.
Creator/Collector: Tompkins, Robert G.
Physical Description: 1 item. 41 × 301.5 cm. Oil portrait.
Note
Ex-libris: Arthur Todd.
* A train of redwood logs containing 88,000 feet of lumber. Mad River, Humboldt County, California. [ca. 1885].
Physical Description: 1 item. 25 × 34 cm. Original photograph.
Scope and Content Note
Inscribed from John Vance who was a major pioneer lumberman in the Eureka Bay area. Probably photographed by August W. Ericsson
of Arcata, California.
Illustration for
A Tale for Easter. [n.p., ca. 1941].
Creator/Collector: Tudor, Tasha, 1915-
Physical Description: 1 item. 17.8 × 15 cm. Original ink and watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[6] of Tasha Tudor's
A Tale for Easter. London, Oxford University Press, 1941.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustration for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. n.p., ca. 1945.
Creator/Collector: Tudor, Tasha, 1915-
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 16 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
This edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales was published by the Oxford University Press, c1945. Printed in the USA. The illustration,
opposite p.182, is for the story, The Fir Tree, and shows children dancing around a decorated Christmas tree.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustration for
Snow before Christmas. [n.p., ca. 1941].
Creator/Collector: Tudor, Tasha, 1915-
Physical Description: 1 item. 23 × 20.5 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[22] of Tasha Tudor's
Snow Before Christmas. New York, Oxford University Press, c.1941.
Picture books in winter. [n.p., ca. 1947].
Creator/Collector: Tudor, Tasha, 1915-
Physical Description: 1 item. 17 × 13 cm. Original watercolor.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.78 of Robert Louis Stevenson's
A Child's Garden of Verse. New York, Oxford University Press, 1947.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Watercolor painting of a little girl sitting on a stool. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Tudor, Tasha, 1915-
Physical Description: 1 item. 13.5 × 9.5 cm. Original watercolor painting.
Scope and Content Note
Signed, T. Tudor. Not known if published. The little girl is dressed in old-fashioned clothes with a tartan scarf aroundher
shoulders.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Pictures prepared for publication in If, Worlds of Science Fiction. [n.p., ca. 1954].
Creator/Collector: Valigursky, Ed
Physical Description: 2 items. 9 × 7 and 8 × 6. Original watercolors.
Scope and Content Note
Included also is a reproduction of the larger picture as published in If, May, 1954.
Illustration for
A Day on Skates. [n.p., ca. 1934].
Creator/Collector: Van Stockum, Hilda, 1908-
Physical Description: 1 item. 16.5 × 24.8 cm. Original watercolor drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced facing p.25 of Hilda Van Stockum's
A Day on Skates. New York, Harper, 1934.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
* Views in Turkey and Greece. v.p., (London, Paris) ca. 1838-1840.
Physical Description: 3 oversize packages. 59 items. Approximately 13 (16 with text) × 19cm. Steel engravings. Matted, 28 × 33 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Plate marks missing. Most of the prints are after T. Allom. The engravers include J. Sands, S. Fisher, J.C. Bentley, W.H.
Capone, and others.
Note
A list of titles is in the Collections File.
Views of England. v.p., 1876-1883.
Physical Description: 48 items. Pen and ink wash drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Most of the drawings are unsigned, one or two to a leaf. They appear to be the work of one artist. In addition, there are
3 slightly different in style, one signed AC(?), one WHR, and HR.
Drawing of a cat. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Wain, Louis, 1860-1939
Physical Description: 1 item. 6.5 × 12.7 cm. Ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Image of the head of a smiling cat wearing a bow tie.
Note
Ex-libris: Majl Ewing.
* Sketches of dancers. n.p., v.d.
Creator/Collector: Walkowitz, Abraham, 1880-1965
Physical Description: 8 items. Original watercolor and pen and ink sketches.
Scope and Content Note
2 watercolor sketches of isadora Duncan (35 × 21 cm.) Mounted and matted (45 × 35 cm).
6 pen and ink sketches, approximately 23 × 14 cm. 2 of Martha Graham dated 1931, others dated 1930 and 1933. Signed by the
artist to Arthur Todd.
Portrait of Carmelita (Rosecrans) Ewing. [Los Angeles] 1950.
Creator/Collector: Warren, Lucia
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 × 40 in. Original oil painting. In brown frame, 33.5 × 43.5.
Note
Bequest of Carmelita Rosecrans Ewing, March 1969.
Original serigraphs. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Wasney, Cynthia Star, 1953-
Physical Description: 6 items.
Rubber stamp art. v.p., v.d.
Creator/Collector: Wasney, Cynthia Star, 1953-
Physical Description: 1 item.
[An offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands. Milan, 1830].
Creator/Collector: [Webber, John, 1750-1793]
Physical Description: 1 item. 24 × 36 cm. Handcolored engraving.
Scope and Content Note
Plate 93, removed from the 1st edition of Jules Ferrario's Il Costume antico e moderno ... After the original Webber engraving
in James Cook's A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... 1784, Atlas, plate 60 (***G247/A13/1784b).
Note
Ex-libris: Sir Maurice Holmes.
The death of Captain Cook. London, J. Webber, 1784.
Creator/Collector: Webber, John, 1750-1793
Physical Description: 1 item. 49 × 57 cm. Original engraving, matted.
Scope and Content Note
Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.
* Night. [n.p., ca. 1941].
Creator/Collector: Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-
Physical Description: 1 item. 33 × 27.5 cm. Original watercolor and crayon drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Reproduction on p.26 of Shakespeare's
Under the Greenwood Tree. London, Oxford University Press [1941?]
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Illustrations for
The water-carrier's secrets by Maria Cristina Chambers. [n.p., ca. 1942].
Creator/Collector: Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-
Physical Description: 4 items. 24.5 × 17.5 cm. Original ink drawings.
Scope and Content Note
Illustration for pp.11, 65, 112, and 221, each with overlay. Included is leaf 11-12 removed from the book showing 1 plate
reproduced in color.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
* Red light, green light, good morning. [n.p., ca. 1944].
Creator/Collector: Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-
Physical Description: 1 item. 24 × 38 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Variant of illustration reproduced on p.[3] of Golden MacDonald's
Red Light, Green Light, Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, 1944.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
Untitled oil painting. n.p., n.d.
Creator/Collector: Wendt, W.
Physical Description: 1 item. 91 × 120.5 cm. Original oil painting. Framed, 123.5 × 155 cm.
Note
Gift of the Summer Class of 1910.
[Smith Room].
Christian fights with Apollyon. n.p. (English), ca. 1925.
Creator/Collector: Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944
Physical Description: 1 item. 20 × 22.5 cm. Original wash drawing. In a hinged mat, 38 × 30 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Publishing history of this illustration to John Bunyan's
Pilgrim Progress is unknown. On the verso is a Whistler pen and ink drawing of an initial letter A intended for a proposed edition of George
Moore's
Perronik the Fool, but never published.
Illustrations for
Perronik the Fool, by George Moore. [London] March, 1926.
Creator/Collector: Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944
Physical Description: 9 items. Original pen and ink drawings. Mounted in hinged mats, 39 × 32 cm.
Scope and Content Note
These drawings, done for a proposed edition of
Perronik the Fool, were never published.
In memory. n.p. n.d.
Creator/Collector: Whistler, Rex, 1905-1944
Physical Description: 1 item. 11.5 × 16.5 cm. Original pen and ink wash drawing. Mounted in a hinged mat, 38 × 33.5 cm.
Scope and Content Note
Depicted is a bereaved lady leaning against a memorial urn in a park. A lap-dog is at her feet and a groom holds a restive
horse.
Note
Ex-libris: Max Beerbohm.
* Dust jacket design. [n.p., ca. 1945].
Creator/Collector: Wiese, Kurt, 1887-
Physical Description: 1 item. 28 × 24 cm. Original ink drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced in color on the dust jacket of Walter R. Brooks'
Freddy and the Perilous Adventure. New York, Knopf, 1945.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
* Endpapers. [n.p., ca. 1939].
Creator/Collector: Wiese, Kurt, 1887-
Physical Description: 1 item. 33.5 × 44.5 cm. Original charcoal drawing.
Scope and Content Note
Endpapers for Rutherford Montgomery's
Trail of the Buffalo. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
*Illustration for
The Story of Freginald. [n.p., ca. 1936].
Creator/Collector: Wiese, Kurt, 1887-
Physical Description: 1 item. 28.7 × 19.4 cm. Original ink drawing with color wash.
Scope and Content Note
Reproduced on p.[43] of Walter R. Brooks'
The Story of Freginald. New York, Knopf, 1936.
Note
Ex-libris: Bernard M. Meeks.
[Arthur Machen's house in St. John's Wood, London, n.p., 192-?].
Creator/Collector: Williams, Frayne
Physical Description: 1 item. 13 × 16 cm. Crayon drawing.
Scope and Content Note
After the original by Aubrey Hammond.
Note
Ex-libris: Paul Jordan Smith.
Untitled serigraph. [Hermosa Beach, California (?) 1964(?)].
Creator/Collector: Wise, Rue
Physical Description: 1 item. 19.8 × 22 cm. Multicolor serigraph.
Scope and Content Note
Invitation to a private exhibit of paintings, March 15, 1964. Depicts a girl in a brightly printed playsuit sunbathing.
Drawings, n.p., ca. 1980.
Creator/Collector: Wood, Cornett
Physical Description: 3 items. Original charcoal and pencil sketches.
Scope and Content Note
Signed in pencil by the artist.
Note
Gift of Jacob Zeitlin, 1980.
* Portrait of C.K. Ogden. [n.p., n.d.].
Creator/Collector: Wood, James
Physical Description: 1 item. 50.2 × 38 cm. Pencil drawing.
Note
Acquired with the Ogden Collection, 1958.
* Portrait of George Bernard Shaw. London, 1927.
Creator/Collector: Woolf, Samuel Johnson, 1880-1948
Physical Description: 1 item. 30 × 38 cm. Original lithograph; signed in the plate by Shaw. Signed by Woolf.
Scope and Content Note
Three-quarter profile portrait of George Bernard Shaw seated, showing upper torso only.
Cf: Woolf, S.J. Drawn from life. New York, Whittlesey House [c. 1932], p.20 ff.
Boulder Canyon Transmission System. [Nevada, 193-].
Creator/Collector: Woollett, William, 1901-
Physical Description: 6 items. 47 × 62 cm. Original lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Studies made during the construction of the Boulder Canyon Project.
Note
Gift of the artist.
[Shelved *].
Description of individual subjects will be found in collection folder.
The Hoover Dam Project. [Nevada, 1931-1932].
Creator/Collector: Woollett, William, 1901-
Physical Description: 14 items. ca. 47 × 62 cm. Original lithographs.
Scope and Content Note
Studies made during the construction of Hoover Dam.
Note
Gift of the artist.
[Shelved *].
Description of individual subjects will be found in collection folder.
Yellowback covers. London, ca. 185-.
Physical Description: 5 items. Proof sheets.
Scope and Content Note
Examples of Victoria paperback cover designs.
Note
A register of the collection is in the Collections File.
* A series of portraits of the Emperors of Turkey from the foundation of the monarch to the year 1815. London, J. Young, 1815.
Creator/Collector: Young, John, 1755-1825
Physical Description: 12 items. 38 × 26.5 cm. Mezzotint.
Scope and Content Note
Most of the plates have a leaf of descriptive text with them. Removed from the above work which when complete contains 31
plates. Printed in 3 colors and finished with hand-coloring, after designs of an anonymous Greek artist.