G.F. Lamoignon Malesherbes
Oval bust, right profile of Chretien Guillaume de Malesherbes, 1721-1794. Engraving by Lambert Antoine Claessens. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card ... more
Mr. Necker / L.A. Claessens, sculp. ; T.S. Duplessis, pinx.
Head-and-shoulders portrait, in oval, facing right.
The following is a copy of a bill, which was introduced and read in th...
Evans 22110.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 166, Folder 12.
Thomas Pleasants to James Madison, April 23, 1789.
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Le jeu de quilles
Print shows a member of the nobility complaining to a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, while a member of the working class, or third estate, bowling in the background, appears to be monop... more
Ukie momotarō mukashibanashi no zu
Print showing a procession of men wearing animal masks and hats with horns, carrying a warrior on a litter along the shore of a lake, with a temple in the background.
Plano topografico que comprende la costa del mar desde la ensenada de ...
Shows central portion of Rio Grande do Sul between Uruguay River and Mangueira Lagoon. "... 4 de outubro de 1789 ..." Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of C... more
Military laboratory, at No. 34, Dock street near the Drawbridge, Phila...
Not in Evans.; On verso: MC #09-82-038.321 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 147, Folder 9a.
Richard Peters to James Madison, August 21, 1789. [Draft].
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U to shirasagi
Print shows a cormorant catching a fish and two white herons. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awas... more
Sola experientia vera medicamina docet. Tis only experience that teach...
Man seated on toilet holding candle. Behind him is a witch wearing queen's cape, looking at book and holding wand. Behind her are 2 Chinese? men holding candles, a man wearing a cape and holding sword, and 3 Ch... more
Thomas Jefferson to American Consuls in France, January 15, 1789, Circ...
Circular Letter on Whale Oil Trade
Ouka no Oiran dōchū
Print shows a woman standing beneath a parasol with branches of cherry blossoms above. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashira... more
Ezra Stiles S.T.D. L.L.D. - president of Yale College / drawn & engrav...
Print shows Ezra Stiles, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in oval. Title from item. Stauffer, 1380 Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the... more
Allegorie dèdiè au tiers etat
Print shows an allegorical scene with a member of the nobility and a member of the clergy, representing the estates general, helping to hold aloft a large heart-shaped frame, which rests on the back of a man re... more
View of the federal ediface in New York
Print shows exterior view of Federal Hall, designated the site of the federal government in 1788, New York City, New York. Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphi... more
[Soldier with musket and farmer with hoe holding crest topped with sai...
Illus. in: Journal of House of Representatives of the State of Delaware, 1798-1805, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4710. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... more
View upon the road from New-Windsor, towards, Morris Town, Jersey
Print shows a tree stump in the foreground, a man tending a cow on the roadway, and a farm in the background, along the road from New Windsor, New York, to Morristown, New Jersey. Title from item. Illus. in: Th... more
An address to the Freemen of Pennsylvania It is a principal duty of go...
Evans 20915. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 147, Folder 8a.
L'homme au masque de fer
Print shows a prisoner in chains and wearing an iron mask sitting on a bench in a prison cell, and another man with a lantern and a tray of food entering the cell in the Bastille. Title from item. Possibly purc... more
A north view of the Castle William in the harbour of Boston
Title from item. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. V, 1789 (May), frontispiece... more
[A Native warrior on the cartouche for "Map for the Interior Travels t...
Print shows a Native warrior sitting on the ground with a rifle resting on his right shoulder. Title from item. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey... more
Quand ce ra la Poule au Pot
Print shows a poor old man sliding a chicken onto a long spit. Title from item. Trimmed within plate mark. de Vinck, 2890 Blum, 27 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).
--Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or The outs in office
Print shows rear views of the Prince of Wales, Maria Fitzherbert, Charles James Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke, a prospective Lord Chancellor, and Richard B. Sheridan, with buttocks exposed, defecating. On the w... more
[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation]...
Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys... more
Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.
Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... more
La coup des bois
Print shows a member of the Third Estate, possibly a woman, kneeling on top of a fallen friar, cutting wooden branches or horns from his head. Title from item. Caption continues: Quel besogne, Grand Dieu ni moi... more
[3 orders proceeding to Versailles, May 1789]
Print shows ornate carriage in which are riding well-dressed people with horns growing out of their heads. The carriage is drawn by two horned deer; standing on a platform at the rear is a women holding a baton... more
View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water,...
Print shows a panoramic view of three hills along the west bank of the Hudson River in New York.
Congress of the United States, begun and held at the City of New-York,...
Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 212, Folder 5.
Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son
Print shows a pig sitting upright on the ground, dressed in ecclesiastical vestiments, on the right is a member of the Third Estate holding a long staff and a bell-like device on a string which he holds up befo... more
Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after...
Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape in Charlottesville, Virginia, with British troops, captured at the surrender in Saratoga, engaged in subsistence farming. Title from item. Illus. in: Travels throug... more
Congress of the United States, begun and held at the City of New-York,...
Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 212, Folder 6.
Plan of the city of New York.
Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of... more
M. Baillij / L.A. Claessens, sculp. ; Boizot, pinx.
Head-and-shoulders portrait, in oval, right profile.
James Madison to George Washington, March 5, 1789.
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L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].
Allegorical print showing Father Time parting the stormy skies of recent days to reveal Louis XVI eagerly accepting the truth offered by Justice and the arrival of Jacques Necker, recalled on 16 July 1789, as F... more
Beauties of fashion & c. ("Belzebub Blacklegs")
Head and shoulders caricatures of 31 persons. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Trois tetes sous l'meme bonnet
Print shows a neatly dressed man sitting on a bundle surrounded by implements of the Third Estate and holding a large triangle topped with a liberty cap, within the triangle are images of a cleric, an aristocra... more
Fellow citizens. You have this moment been witnesses to one of the nob...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 111, Folder 16h.
Theatrical portraiture no. 1 - Henry V
Illustration shows an actor portraying Henry V in Shakespear's play by the same name. Illus. in: The Attic miscellany or, characteristic mirror of men and things, vol. 1. London : Bently & Co., 1790. Caption: H... more
Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, March 14, 1789, Fragment; in Code
Fragment; in Code
Meeting night of the Club of Odd Fellows / Collings, del. ; etchd. by ...
"Members of a Club of Odd Fellows drinking, smoking, and talking..." (Source: George) Frontispiece to The Attic Miscellany, i. This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Person... more
To the honorable the Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvan...
Used for Exchange 3-7-51.; Imprint 2.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera ... more
Congress of the United States, begun and held at the City of New-York,...
Evans 22202.; On verso of Copy 1 and Copy 2: [Stamp] Gift HERBERT PUTNAM SEPT. 22 1938; [Stamp] Issued by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Sol Bloom, Director General, Washington D.C... more
United States, May 1789, Table on Wheat and Flour, in French
Table on Wheat and Flour, in French
... An act for establishing an executive department, to be denominated...
Bristol: B7169. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 211, Folder 15.
Ode to the President of the United States on his arrival at Boston. [B...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Ford.; Not in Evans.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... more