Portraits
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Edgeworth Family drawing album
Item
Identifier: MSE/IR 1037B
Scope and Contents
One bound volume of drawings in various media (pencil, crayon, or ink, some with watercolor washes in color or grayscale). Drawings vary from about 3 cm x 3 cm to an entire page in size. Each has been trimmed from its source and tipped in or laid down on album plates; most plates contain multiple drawings. Images range from simple studies or sketches to finished, toned drawings. Two paper cut-work silhouette images also laid in; one mounted watercolor portrait of an Asian woman in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1806
George Petrie Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1038
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a small group of correspondence sent to the Irish antiquarian George Petrie from a wide variety of fellow antiquarians and historians over the course of forty-two years. The collection comprises twenty-two handwritten letters primarily dealing with various antiquarian interests and one printed portrait of George Petrie.Notable items in the collection include Irish nationalist Charles Gavan Duffy’s letter to Petrie, written while Duffy was imprisoned at...
Dates:
1822 - 1864
Jacques Hilpert watercolor album
Item
Identifier: MSE/MD-6418
Scope and Contents
Watercolor album by a young Jacques Hilpert. The album consists of twenty-four leaves plus one partial leaf of watercolors (rectos only) over pencil sketches, most of which are signed. The sketches represent street scenes, cafés, and restaurants during la Belle Epoque, with workers, waiters, cyclists, gendarmes, soldiers, well-dressed ladies and gentlemen. The album is sewn in paper wrappers and has a manuscript inscription by the artist "Peint par Jacques Hilpert 15 ans ½" on the front...
Dates:
1896
Rudi Holzapfel Research Collection on James Clarence Mangan
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2720
Scope and Contents
The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...
Dates:
1903-1934, 1953-1979, 1990-1996, undated
The Dante Alighieri and Divine Comedy Print Collection
Collection
Identifier: BPP 6000
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of loose prints and clippings relating to the life of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The collection contains many printed examples of variant portrait types of Dante, including engravings based on the portraits of Giotto and Raphael. Also included are posters and other ephemeral materials from the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1865.
Dates:
Undated