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[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left, in ornamental oval frame] / Gerard Honthorst pinxt ; George Vertue, Londini sculp.

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing s...

Signed and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[America, 1772 - title page ornamentation showing Native wearing skirt made of feathers pointing to a map of America] / Iacob Christoph Weÿerman inv. et delin. ; Martin Gottfried Cophius, sculps.

[America, 1772 - title page ornamentation showing Native wearing skirt...

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

Print of ornament on the title page of the Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine shows a female figure representing America sitting amid abundance while enjoying the prosperity of peace. Illus. in: The unive... More

Paper hanging 43 - Public domain dedication image

Paper hanging 43 - Public domain dedication image

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Three. Ground imitating a drapery, shaded and lighted by stripes and ornaments in sections of a circle, printed in grey and wh... More

[Paper hanging 68]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[Paper hanging 68]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Sixty Eight. Design of double columns, ornamented with grapes and vine leaves. Another part ornamented with losanges, placed horizon... More

Nihonzutsumi no rakugan tamaya uchi Tamagushi

Nihonzutsumi no rakugan tamaya uchi Tamagushi

Print shows Tamagushi, a courtesan, full-length portrait, with several hairpins, seated, reading a scroll; picture hanging on the wall above her shows geese descending on the Nihon embankment. Title and other d... More

Oiran, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Oiran, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows an oiran, a high-class courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: S... More

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Hanao of Ōgi-ya, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with attendant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: on... More

Crimson fronted Purple Finch / Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S.F.L.

Crimson fronted Purple Finch / Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R....

Print shows bird on flowering pea vine surrounded by border of vines, birds, a woman, and a bird's nest. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

K. William Ye Conqueror del. et sculp. G. Vertue

K. William Ye Conqueror del. et sculp. G. Vertue

William I or 'William the Conqueror', King of England, bust portrait, facing front, holding sword, with ornaments and vignette of Brittania in supplication below. Signed on plate. Illus. from: History of Englan... More

Sugimotoya no kakae oume - Public domain scan / drawing

Sugimotoya no kakae oume - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a woman seated on the floor holding a puppet portraying a woman, possibly the shopkeeper Oume of Sugimoto-ya. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

No. 41 fountain, bronzed, 10 feet 4 inches high

No. 41 fountain, bronzed, 10 feet 4 inches high

Photograph showing ornamental ironwork fountain with putti and cranes on the pedestal. F1781 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Illustrated catalogue, ornamental iron fountains / J.W. Fiske, manufacturer of orn... More

Civil War envelope folded from wallpaper to William H. Branch

Civil War envelope folded from wallpaper to William H. Branch

Addressed to Wm. H. Branch Esqr., Tallahassee, Florida; postmarked Warrenton, N.C.; bears 10 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Patricia A. Kaufman, Lincoln, Delaware, June 2018... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Matsubaya uchi Utahime, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Matsubaya uchi Utahime, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Utahime, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae Nishik... More

Chōkōsai Eisho - Tsuruya uchi tsurunou - Ukiyo e print

Chōkōsai Eisho - Tsuruya uchi tsurunou - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a courtesan with two attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seirō bijin awase : A series of beauties... More

Ichikawa Dannosuke, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Ichikawa Dannosuke, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa, Danzō, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding cloth or paper in right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Paper hanging 66. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Paper hanging 66. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design with gilded pillar for Ramée's gilded ironwork. Accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Sixty Six. Ground imitating a garden gate, of open ornamental iron work, gilt, on on... More

Ōgiya yūgiri, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Ōgiya yūgiri, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Yugiri, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with large fan on the left showing bust portrait of a woman wearing a large hat. Title and other descriptive information compiled b... More

Old Dominion polka - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Old Dominion polka - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

An illustrated sheet music cover for a polka composed by Henry Bellman. Within a circular, ornamental border is an allegorical scene based on the seal of the State of Virginia. A helmeted female figure armed w... More

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. & W. Endicott, No. 22 John St., New York.

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. &...

A commemorative print published after the inauguration of President James K. Polk. The design incorporates oval bust portraits of the eleven Presidents arranged in an oval with Washington in the center and Polk... More

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. & W. Endicott, No. 22 John St., New York.

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. &...

A commemorative print published after the inauguration of President James K. Polk. The design incorporates oval bust portraits of the eleven Presidents arranged in an oval with Washington in the center and Polk... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

King Canute ye Dane in. et sculp: G. Vertue

King Canute ye Dane in. et sculp: G. Vertue

Canute, King of England, Denmark and Norway, bust portrait, left profile, with ornaments and vignette below portrait depicting the story of Canute and his courtiers. Signed on plate. Illus. from: History of Eng... More

Tamaya uchi wakamurasaki komurasaki, Tsukimaro Kitagawa

Tamaya uchi wakamurasaki komurasaki, Tsukimaro Kitagawa

Print shows two courtesans, bust portraits, facing right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms part of... More

Matsubaya uchi yosooi, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Matsubaya uchi yosooi, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows Yosoi of Matsuba-ya, a courtesan, walking with a young female attendant and a male servant carrying a large parasol. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pri... More

Tsuruya uchi kashiku - Public domain portrait painting

Tsuruya uchi kashiku - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows the courtesan Kashiku, full-length portrait, standing in front of a tree in blossom, facing slightly right, with young female attendant, both wearing numerous hairpins.

Paper hanging 55. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Paper hanging 55. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Fifty Five. Border for number fifty four. Festoon terminating in points, ornamented with fringe, crescents, and stars. The lower bor... More

Tamaya uchi koshikibu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Tamaya uchi koshikibu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Koshikibu, a courtesan, full-length, walking with two attendants.

Ornament on pilasters of dome, second story / Tho. U. Walter, arch't., Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 1860.

Ornament on pilasters of dome, second story / Tho. U. Walter, arch't.,...

Print shows front and profile views of detail of architectural ornament on the pilasters of the dome on the U.S. Capitol at Washington, D.C. No. 1941.

Western bank note & eng. co. steel plate engraving & lithography

Western bank note & eng. co. steel plate engraving & lithography

Print shows an advertisement for the Western Bank Note & Engaving Company, La Salle Street, corner Randolph, Chicago, Illinois, makers of "steel plate engraving & lithography" of "Bonds, Checks & Certificates, ... More

Paper hanging 42. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Paper hanging 42. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design with eagle and garland frieze. Accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Two. Top border for number forty one. Composed of a horizontal garland of green leaves, with a ... More

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows two women, one kneeling and writing on a scroll, the other standing nearby watching her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.... More

The life and public services of William H. Harrison / stereotyped by J. Fagan.

The life and public services of William H. Harrison / stereotyped by J...

A large Whig campaign broadside for the presidential election of 1840. Three columns of text outline the career, military accomplishments, and other distinctions of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison... More

Daifukuya no dan, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Daifukuya no dan, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a man sitting behind a screen watching two women, one holding a long pipe. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the seri... More

Fee Simple, a councellor and Beau Bungey, a cringing courtier, British Cartoon Print

Fee Simple, a councellor and Beau Bungey, a cringing courtier, British...

Two Lilliputian figures, a lawyer and a courtier, or landholder, stand discussing the means by which the courtier will settle his estate. Includes explanatory verse and ornamental and pictorial borders. Forms p... More

Chōjiya uchi karagoto - Public domain portrait print

Chōjiya uchi karagoto - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Karagoto, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with two young female attendants.

Edochō echizenya uchi morokoshi - Ukiyo e print

Edochō echizenya uchi morokoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the courtesan Morokoshi, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing numerous hairpins, with a young female attendant also wearing an elaborate hair dressing. Title and other descriptive in... More

Hikeyotsu no yoru no ame, Eizan Kikukawa

Hikeyotsu no yoru no ame, Eizan Kikukawa

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing at an open doorway, looking out at the rain. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the serie... More

Miuraya takao - Public domain portrait print

Miuraya takao - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Takao of the Miura-ya, a courtesan, full-length, standing beneath a pine bough, facing left as a bird flies by her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo prin... More

[Designs for ironwork pedestals, bases, and covers for vases]

[Designs for ironwork pedestals, bases, and covers for vases]

Photograph showing several pedestal designs with one base design and one cover design. F1779 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Illustrated catalogue of vases / J.W. Fiske, manufacturer of ornamental iron work.... More

Prize designs for fret sawing. Williams' ornamental series. No. 24

Prize designs for fret sawing. Williams' ornamental series. No. 24

[8]98 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Williams, Henry T... More

Nakano chō no sakura - Public domain  print

Nakano chō no sakura - Public domain print

Print shows three women, full-length portrait, standing, each with a different animal represented on their kimono, on the left should be a Chinese lion, center should be a tiger, and on the right is a turtle.

Nakano chō no sakura - Public domain  print

Nakano chō no sakura - Public domain print

Print shows three women, full-length portrait, standing, each with a different animal represented on their kimono, on the left should be a Chinese lion, center should be a tiger, and on the right is a turtle.

Paper hanging 47 - Public domain dedication image

Paper hanging 47 - Public domain dedication image

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Seven. Border for number forty six. Composed of a band ornamented with stars and rosettes, surmounted by three palms united by... More

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit.

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et f...

Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, half-length portrait, wearing necklace and head ornaments, and with facial markings, facing slightly left. Parthey, 2009 Published in: Many nations: A Library of C... More

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perched on a rock below, and above, two Natives pour water from a cornucopia, a opossum hangs by its tail from the border

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perc...

Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus, 1753-59 [i.e., 1781 ; v. 1, 1759], no. 139. Published in: The American Revolution in ... More

Edomachi nichōme tsutaya uchi hitomachi[?] - Torii Kiyonaga

Edomachi nichōme tsutaya uchi hitomachi[?] - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows the courtesan Hitomachi with another woman and two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the ser... More

Koto to shō, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain  drawing

Koto to shō, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain drawing

Print shows two women playing musical instruments, one playing the koto and the other panpipes. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

Chōkōsai Eisho - Okamotoya uchi shinateru - Ukiyo e print

Chōkōsai Eisho - Okamotoya uchi shinateru - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the courtesan Shinateru with two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Wakana no hat... More

Tamaya uchi shizuka - Public domain portrait painting

Tamaya uchi shizuka - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows Shizuka, a courtesan, bust portrait, holding a book, facing slightly right, with many hairpins. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Robert Wood's ornamental iron works, Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia / Hinckley ; printed by Henry B. Ashmead.

Robert Wood's ornamental iron works, Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia / Hinc...

Print shows an advertisement for Robert Wood's Ornamental Iron Works on "Ridge Avenue below Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia" showing cast iron statues and fountains, the "Clay Monument, at Pottsville, Pa.", ... More

Woman looking in mirror admiring rose in her hair

Woman looking in mirror admiring rose in her hair

1456 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Mensing & Stecher,... More

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns. "The door is open for all" / H. Thomas ; lithogr. by Kimmel & Forster, 256 Canal Str., N.Y.

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....

A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi - Public domain  drawing

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi - Public domain drawing

Print shows Hanaōgi, a courtesan, half-length, holding a portrait of a man. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Edo shin-... More

Tamaya uchi tagasode - Public domain  drawing

Tamaya uchi tagasode - Public domain drawing

Print shows Tagasode of Tama-ya, a courtesan, with many hairpins, and another woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: ... More

Nenrei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Nenrei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman sitting by a trunk and a large lantern, putting hairpins in her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the s... More

Andon, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Public domain portrait print

Andon, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with several hairpins in her hair, carrying a lantern in her right hand and folded cloth or papers in her left hand, on her way to a meeting wit... More

Granny Harrison delivering the country of the executive Federalist

Granny Harrison delivering the country of the executive Federalist

A satire on the Van Buren administration challenged by Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. Harrison, dressed as a woman, tries to remove Van Buren from his throne with a midwife's forceps. Van... More

[Calendar for 1863], Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

[Calendar for 1863], Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

An advertising calendar for a lithographic printing firm, decorated with Unionist symbols and motifs. The calendar for 1863 and the first 6 months of 1864 is surrounded with an elaborate framework of floral and... More

Zensei kurabe kakuyū no zu - Public domain  drawing

Zensei kurabe kakuyū no zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows an interior view of a brothel with several courtesans, three in front of a standing screen showing scene of a large bird perched on a pine branch. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. & W. Endicott, No. 22 John St., New York.

The Presidents of the United States. Liberty and union / lith. of G. &...

A commemorative print published after the inauguration of President James K. Polk. The design incorporates oval bust portraits of the eleven Presidents arranged in an oval with Washington in the center and Polk... More

Paper hanging 42 - Engraving, Public domain image

Paper hanging 42 - Engraving, Public domain image

Wallpaper design with eagle and garland frieze. Accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Two. Top border for number forty one. Composed of a horizontal garland of green leaves, with a ... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leo XIII Pontifex Max. A.D. MDCCCLXXVIII

Leo XIII Pontifex Max. A.D. MDCCCLXXVIII

Print showing Pope Leo XIII, bust portrait, facing front, in medallion, "surrounded by an ornamental border, representing the Holy Father, dressed in his usual robes, with stole, ermine and solideo cap on his h... More

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijūrō, full-length portrait, holding a bonsai on a tray, in the female role of Ōiso no Tora.

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows two women, one kneeling and writing on a scroll, the other standing nearby watching her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.... More

[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print

[Arms of the British forces] - Public domain print

Print shows British arms with drum and flag as title page ornament. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 / John Andrews. London : J. Fi... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Ouka no Oiran dōchū

Utagawa Toyokuni - 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

Utagawa Toyokuni - Sanya karitaku no zu

Utagawa Toyokuni - Sanya karitaku no zu

Print shows two courtesans, full-length, standing, one leaning on a railing, facing right, the other holding a scroll, reading, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

Paper hanging 44 - Public domain dedication image

Paper hanging 44 - Public domain dedication image

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Top border for number forty three. Composed of a horizontal garland ornamented with a rose in the centre and on each side with leaves and j... More

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Horatio Gates Sickel of Co. K, 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, inset in medallion decorated with figures of Justice and Columbia, with message "Our Colonel, 3d. Reg. P.R.V.C."]

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Horatio Gates Sickel o...

Addressed to Mr. William H. Heft, Richlandtown P.O., Bucks County, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked at Washington, D.C., December 1862. The 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was the 3rd of the Pennsylvani... More

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta libro, altra volta, chiamato Il ballarino. Nuouamente dal proprio auttore corretto, ampliato di nuoui balli, di belle regole, & alla perfetta theorica ridotto: con le creanze necessarie à caualieri, e dame. Aggiontoui il basso, & il soprano della musica: & con l'intauolatura del liuto à ciascun ballo. Ornato di vaghe & bellissime figure in rame

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta libro, altra volt...

Title within engraved architectural border ornamented with vignettes of instrumentalists, a portrait of the author, etc. Head- and tailpieces; initials. The illustrations consist of 10 full-page engravings by G... More

Paper hanging 47. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Paper hanging 47. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Seven. Border for number forty six. Composed of a band ornamented with stars and rosettes, surmounted by three palms united by... More

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit.

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et f...

Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, half-length portrait, wearing necklace and head ornaments, and with facial markings, facing slightly left. Parthey, 2009 Published in: Many nations: A Library of C... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes newspaper clippings from 1901 and 1946)

William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Map ornament - Mars watches Fame unfurl a detailed map of New York and Pennsylvania] / Beaurain.

[Map ornament - Mars watches Fame unfurl a detailed map of New York an...

Illus. in: Carte de l'Amérique Septle. pour servir à l'intelligence de la guerre entre les Anglois et les insurgents / M le Chr. de Beaurain. Paris : 1777, detail. Published in: The American Revolution in draw... More

Kyōmachi nichōme kirihishiya uchi manyō - Torii Kiyonaga

Kyōmachi nichōme kirihishiya uchi manyō - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows the courtesan Manyō with another courtesan and two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the ser... More

Matsubaya uchi somenosuke, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Matsubaya uchi somenosuke, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows the courtesan Somenosuke with two young female attendants/apprentices. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical ... More

Yoshidaya, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Yoshidaya, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a full-length portrait of a courtesan, standing, facing right, with diamond-shaped picture hanging on the wall in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spon... More

Weltausstellung 1873 in Wien / gezeichnet von F. Laufberger ; radirt von W. Unger.

Weltausstellung 1873 in Wien / gezeichnet von F. Laufberger ; radirt v...

Print shows an ornamental certificate with allegorical figures presented to Joseph E. Holmes, a juror of "Group XIII" at the Vienna International Exhibition, Vienna, 1873. Caption: Der Präsident der Kaiserlich... More

A variety of different colors of pansy flowers

A variety of different colors of pansy flowers

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ingalls, J. F., copyright claimant. L. C., artist.... More

Abdullah Frères, Photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan, Grand Rue de Pera, Constantinople

Abdullah Frères, Photographes de S.M.I. le Sultan, Grand Rue de Pera, ...

Print shows "Abdullah Frères" text surrounded by ornamented border with tuğra of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. On board mount: "Türkische und egypt Drucksachen 1890-1900". Printing specimen possibly for an advertiseme... More

Pādishāhnāmah - Persian manuscript

Pādishāhnāmah - Persian manuscript

Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's h... More

Paper hanging 46 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Paper hanging 46 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Six. Ground imitating drapery, ornamented with festoons, garlands of roses in Arabesque upon one side two ribands entwined fo... More

Matsubaya uchi matsūmura yosoi, Tsukimaro Kitagawa

Matsubaya uchi matsūmura yosoi, Tsukimaro Kitagawa

Print shows two courtesans, bust portraits, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Aiban Nishikie. Forms part o... More

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijūrō, full-length portrait, holding a bonsai on a tray, in the female role of Ōiso no Tora.

Santō Kyōden - Sakazuki - Public domain  drawing

Santō Kyōden - Sakazuki - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and woman seated on the floor, a shamisen between them, a child climbing on the man's back, the woman holding a cup; standing behind them is a woman with many hairpins. Title and other descrip... More

Wakanaya uchi Shiratsuyu, Eishi Hosoda - Ukiyo e print

Wakanaya uchi Shiratsuyu, Eishi Hosoda - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the courtesan Shiratsuyu, full-length portrait with many hairpins, sitting, facing left, holding a long pipe. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Matsubaya uchi segawa, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Matsubaya uchi segawa, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows the courtesan, Segawa, with two young male and female servants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: probably the left ... More

Hana, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain portrait print

Hana, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing beneath a tree branch with blossoms, facing left, with several hairpins in her hair, holding a handkerchief next to her right eye, looking at a mirror or pict... More

Komurasaki and Gonpachi, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Komurasaki and Gonpachi, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows the samurai-turned-murderer Gonpachi and the young beauty-turned-prostitute Komurasaki. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. ... More

[Paper hanging 66]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[Paper hanging 66]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design. Printed label for companion sheet, LOT 14054, no. 14-a, describes the pattern: "Number Sixty Six. Ground imitating a garden gate, of open ornamental iron work, gilt, on one side a pialster for... More

Paper hanging no. 50 - Public domain dedication image

Paper hanging no. 50 - Public domain dedication image

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Fifty. Border for number forty nine. Forming a cornice divided by an ornament Arabesque set with palms, in the centre a medallion, a... More

Kukimanjiya uchi Takimoto, Kunitomi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Kukimanjiya uchi Takimoto, Kunitomi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the courtesan Takimoto, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing colorful kimono with rooster design, and with many hairpins, holding a small child. Title and other descriptive ... More

Sandaime onoe kikugorō no yūjo - Public domain portrait print

Sandaime onoe kikugorō no yūjo - Public domain portrait print

Print shows actor Onoe Kikugorō III, facing right, sitting on the floor, holding a sheet of paper, in an onnagata role as a courtesan.

On to the charge! Inscribed to the memory of Major Ringgold . . .

On to the charge! Inscribed to the memory of Major Ringgold . . .

An illustrated sheet music cover for a song memorializing one of the first heroes of the Mexican War, Maj. Samuel Ringgold. Zachary Taylor's innovative gunnery commander was fatally wounded in May 1846 during t... More

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shakh-Zinde) i mavzolei pri nei. Mavzolei Sha-Arap. Chast' staloktitnago ukrasheniia vnutri mavzoleia

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 59.

The sacred heart of Jesus - Public domain portrait drawing

The sacred heart of Jesus - Public domain portrait drawing

34227 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Roberts, artist. Haas... More

No. 13 fountain, 8 feet 7 inches high

No. 13 fountain, 8 feet 7 inches high

Photograph showing ornamental ironwork 3-tiered fountain. F1781 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Illustrated catalogue, ornamental iron fountains / J.W. Fiske, manufacturer of ornamental iron fountains, c1875, p. 3.

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