1790

Kashidori fukurō, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows an owl and a jay perched on branches in a tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awase.... More

Tsubakura kiji, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka awase. Format: full color illustrated Kyōkabon. Forms part of: Jap... More

[A man engaged in metalwork, appears to be melting statues to reuse th...

Title and date devised by Library staff; other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Fake attributed to Katsushika Hokusai. Forms part of: Japanese prints... More

View of the falls of Niagara / del. 1790 ; engrav'd by S. Hill.

Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. II, no. VII, 1790 (July), opp. p. 387. Stauffer, 1... More

Laurent Guyot - J.X. Bureaux-Pusy / Trexel, del. ; Guyot, sc.

Half-length portrait of Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy. Tissandier collection.

The cutter cut up, or, the monster at full length, British Cartoon Pri...

Philip Thicknesse standing with a rope (merit) round his neck, nude except for short breeches. His person is covered with defamatory inscriptions. His chest is cut open, revealing organs labeled cowardice, crue... More

Menagerie nationale - A drawing of a group of people standing in front...

Print shows a harlequin standing on a makeshift stage with three cages on it containing members of the clergy and the nobility, and flying a banner "Collection d'Animaux Feroces et Traitres". The first cage is ... More

Title page, with no illus., of Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effe...

Illus. in: Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effects of spiritous liquors, Philadelphia, T. Bradford, 1790, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... More

By His Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esq; governor, captain-general, and c...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 22844.; Proclamation.; Imprint 3.; On verso, copy 2: {stamp} Copied from the orginial in The Rhode Island Historical Society; Ac. 5689; On verso, copy 3 and copy 4: {stamp} Gift He... More

[Cucumber or squash and eggplant] - Ukiyo e print

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View of the colleges at Cambridge, Massachusetts / delineated & engrav...

Print shows several buildings on the Harvard College campus, (l. to r.) Holden Chapel, Hollis Hall, Harvard Hall, and Massachusetts Hall.

In Council, January 21, 1790. Gentlemen. A list of the pensions, who a...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans.; On recto, copy 2: 7 50 cents. 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 E... More

[One-point perspective sketches of structure, road, and trees, with sh...

Four sketches. Church interior elevation and section with galleries and vaulted ceiling on verso. M.I.T. no. A-d-12. Drawing not signed; attribution based on handwriting and drawing style. From the Massachusett... More

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More

Seneca Nation to George Washington, December 1, 1790, with Copies

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James Madison to George Washington, January 4, 1790.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

Benjamin Vaughn to Thomas Jefferson, December 2, 1790, and Report

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Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier / Pinelli, inc.

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

November 15, 1790, Isle of Wight, For sale of glebes.

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Alexander Donald to Thomas Jefferson, September 1, 1790

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... An act making further provision for the payment of the debt of the...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session, begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed:Fre... More

Together let us range the fields

A heavy farmer holds hands with a fat shepardess and grins mischievously. No copyright information found with item. Title inscribed above image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:23... More

Thomas Jefferson, June 3, 1790, Notes on Diplomatic Appointments

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Pretty Polly say when I was away did your fancy never stray to some ne...

A man in uniform stands resting one hand on his hip and extending the other out to a woman standing with her eyes closed and arms folded. No copyright information found with item. Title inscribed above image. B... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeist...

Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeist...

M. Bureau de Pusy. Né a Port sur Saône en 17[...], député du Baille d'...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy. Tissandier collection.

Magisterial vigilance, or the picket guard civilly clearing Cornhill o...

Guards driving away women selling apples. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

John Hancock to George Washington, July 20, 1790

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Le maitre de danse des aristocrates, allons donc l'Abbe cochon en mesu...

Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with a turkey-cock at his side, beating a drum and wielding a whip to make dance a pig dressed as an abbot and a dog dressed in Spanish clothing. de Vinck, 3677 Blum, ... More

A corporation meeting - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ten members of a town corporation, including the mayor, gather around a table to discuss the king's recent visit and his eating one of the little buns for which the town is renowned. No copyright information fo... More

[Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, French balloonist, head-and-shoulder...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Giuochi, trattenimenti e feste annue che si costumano in Toscana e spe...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Wholy engraved with watercolor. Plates 22 and 23 signed by Carlo Lasinio, but all generally attributed to him. Plates 2 and 4 signed "G. Piattoli, inv."

Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790

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October 30, 1790, Richmond County, For sale of glebes.

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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

Public domain scan of dance manual, 18th-century France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rembrandt van Rijn - Samson threatening his father-in-law

Restrike from unidentified artist of Rembrandt's original work. In portfolio: Recueil de quatre-vingt-cinq estampes originales, têtes, paysages et différences sujets, dessinés et gravées de Rembrandt ... Paris ... More

Louis Bernard Guyton-Morveau, né à Dijon le 4 janvier 1737 / Dess. et ...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French scientist Louis Bernard Guyton-Morveau. Tissandier collection.

Theatrical portraiture no. 6 - Public domain book illustration

Illustration shows an actress performing. Public domain photograph - 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended wit...

Half-length portrait of the first English woman to ride in a balloon.

Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, June 13, 1790

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John Bull, baited by the dogs of excise

A British satire on efforts by William Pitt, George Rose, and some members of Parliament to impose new "Excise" duties on tobacco (cf. Tobacco Excise Bill). The additional tax burden on British citizens is impl... More

Baptism of Edward I / M. Brown Jr.

Drawing of an infant, perhaps an angel on the recto. Sketch of an elderly man with cane on verso. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Noah's Ark improved, or an attempt to land in the teeth of the wind, B...

A British satire on Charles Stanhope's Toleration Bill of 1789 which was an attempt to remove the yoke of religious obligations on persons seeking public office (cf. Test and Corporation Acts). Despite the fact... More

State Department, 1790-1792, Account of Debts

Account of Debts Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

Sir for the great valour shown by your Corps at the late fire at the s...

A woman wearing a plumed hat presents two banners to a gentleman in uniform. He, in return, removes his hat and bows.

Hints to managers, actors and authors / G.M. Woodward, del., British C...

Printed on item: In Holland's Exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admit.ce one Shillg. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Most images available on microfi... More

David Allison to Anthony Crutcher, December 18, 1790

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October 30, 1790, Culpeper, Favors sale of glebes.

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Together let us range the fields

A heavy farmer holds hands with a fat shepardess and grins mischievously. No copyright information found with item. Title inscribed above image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:23... More

William Pitt, April 1790, Extracts from a Speech in the House of Commo...

A short account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore in Ma...

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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Theatrical portraiture no. 4 - King Dick

Illustration shows an actor portraying Richard III in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 2. Illus. in: The Attic miscellany or, characteristic mirror of men and things, vol. 1. London : Bently & Co., 1790. Caption: A... More

View of the court house in Salem Massachusettsachusetts / W. Gray, del...

Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. II, no. III, 1790 (March), frontispiece. Published... More

Plano de Cartagena de Yndyas / - Public domain old map

Shows coast of Colombia in region of Cartagena. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on c... More

The Stag, or Red Deer - Public domain scenic engraving

Wood engraving by Thomas Bewick. Illus. in: A General History of Quadrupeds, printed at Newcastle upon Tyne, 1790. See LC Christmas card #717. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

Uzura hibari, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a meadowlark and two quail among bushes on the ground. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chidori kyōka... More

Agostino Mitelli - [Study for an altar. Elevation]

Sotheby Parke Bernet auction catalog, New York, sale number 4330, lot 116: attributed to Agostino Mitelli. Date from information sheet provided by donor. Item conserved and/or rehoused. See Supplementary Mater... More

Allons plus de distinction ce malheur commun nous rend égaux

Print shows a member of the aristocracy and a member of the Third Estate embracing in a courtyard, they both wear the horns of cuckoldry which they consider a common misery among all classes; a woman leaning ov... More

Frontispiece to Reflections on the French revolution, British Cartoon ...

Print shows Edmund Burke on bended knee as though proposing to a vision which appears before him of Marie Antoinette, while a cherub touches his head with a firebrand emitting the sparks of romance. Includes e... More

Mimizuku uso. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a horned owl and two bulfinches perched on branches in a tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Momo chido... More

Con-g-ss embark'd on board the ship Constitution of America bound to C...

In July 1790 Congress decided to move the seat of the federal government from its original site in New York to Washington, with Philadelphia as an interim capital. The unidentified satirist gives a cynical view... More

Tench Coxe, November 1790, Notes on Dutch Fisheries

Notes on Dutch Fisheries Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

City desk / World-Telegram photo by Fred Palumbo.

Newspaper editorial staff in the newsroom. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

James Simpson to George Washington, August 25, 1790, Extract

An act making provision for the debt of the United States. [New York, ...

The one printed by John Fenno has 12 sec. while this one without imprint has 14 sec.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full tex... More

[Geometrical diagrams relating to perspective methods by various autho...

Four diagrams showing Miller, Kirby, Priestley, and Jesuit & French methods of perspective; sketch of interior to left. Note at center: "Artist's repository". Perspective sketch of structure with pedimented win... More

Joseph Anthony to Tench Coxe, November 27, 1790

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On me raze aujourd'hui - je me marie demain &cc. / A.P.

Print shows, at center, a head on a pole with a wig topped with the horns of cuckoldry awaits the monk, on the right, who is sitting in a chair holding a tray under his chin, a member of the French Guard, about... More

Thomas Jefferson to Henry Knox, August 26, 1790

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An act providing for the actual enumeration of the inhabitants of the ...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Leaflet 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 213, Folder 6.

Can love be controul'd by advice? Will Cupid our mothers obey?

A distraught woman wearing a polka dot dress kneels, with handkerchief in hand, before a woman in a bonnet and apron, pointing her finger in a scolding gesture. No copyright information found with item. Title i... More

Edward Savage - General George Washington / painted & engraved by E. S...

Bust of George Washington when commander of the American revolutionary forces, later 1st president of the United States. In: Washington's monuments of patriotism ..., Francis & Robert Bailey, Philadelphia, 180... More

Edward Savage - General George Washington / painted & engraved by E. S...

Bust of George Washington when commander of the American revolutionary forces, later 1st president of the United States. In: Washington's monuments of patriotism ..., Francis & Robert Bailey, Philadelphia, 180... More

Pretty Polly say when I was away did your fancy never stray to some ne...

A man in uniform stands resting one hand on his hip and extending the other out to a woman standing with her eyes closed and arms folded. No copyright information found with item. Title inscribed above image. B... More

A bill to establish an uniform rule of naturalization,and to enable al...

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 213, Folder 10.

Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., June 20, 1790, with Cop...

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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...

Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More

[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonis...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Gall...

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 223, Folder 27.

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" printed b... More

The Author of The Wealth of nations / Kay, fecit., British Cartoon Pri...

Full-length standing profile portrait of Adam Smith pointing at book on small table. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier / Pinelli, inc.

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in ...

A British satire in which Charles James Fox, depicted with two faces, seeks the support of a former enemy, Sir Samuel Hood, while repudiating a former friend, Lord John Townshend. A scene in the background show... More

George Skene Keith, 1790, Synopsis of a British System of Equalization...

Synopsis of a British System of Equalization of Weights and Measures

Edmund Randolph. Notes, Common Law. 1790. James Madison Papers.

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October 30, 1790, Richmond County, For sale of glebes.

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