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- Title
- Illustration Proof without text of A.M. David's "Statuaire" for Aloysius Bertard's book "Gaspard de la nuit:fantasies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot"
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Two rectangular friezes: one horizontal, one vertical. In the larger horizontal section, there is a man's head inside a triangle with two angel heads on the sides, with an elaborate border. In the vertical section, there are two angel heads blowing air out of their mouths.
- Century
- Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1904
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.549
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Joust in the Marketplace
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach The Elder
- Physical Description
- This woodcut depicts a town square surrounded by buildings on the top and right edges of the composition as though viewed from above. Within the square is a field delimited by a fence in which a multitude of figures and figures on horseback are engaged in a chaotic battle. Several figures direct large lances toward other figures. Crowds of young and old and male and female figures watch the action from behind the fence and from within doorways, balconies and windows in the surrounding buildings.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1472-1553
- Object Creation Date
- 1506
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.181
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Devotion of Little St. John the Baptist [Les hommages du petit saint Jean] from a suite of nine scenes of the life of the Virgin; Anonymous French](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.542/2013_2.542.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=3;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- Devotion of Little St. John the Baptist [Les hommages du petit saint Jean] from a suite of nine scenes of the life of the Virgin
- Artist
- Anonymous French
- Physical Description
- The Virgin Mary seated with an infant on her lap. She is surrounded by angels and two saints on either side. To her left, the little St. John the Baptist looks up to her. There is a puti above sprinkling something in the air. Drapes pushed back on either side.
- Century
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.542
- Medium and Support
- engraving on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Baby Krishna Taken by Father Across Jumna River
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Physical Description
- A elief of the baby Krishan being taken across the Jumna River on top of the head of his father. The father and baby are in the lower right corner of the frieze, with the image of a tail following them going diagonally behind.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.163
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Landscape with Tower and Distant Lake
- Artist
- William Payne
- Physical Description
- A watercolor primarily in greens, blues, black and grey depicting a landscape with rolling hills and a tower and lake in the distance. A family of weary travelers are positioned in the shaded left foreground. A herd of sheep and two donkeys rest in the sunlit fields in the mid-ground.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1760 - 1830)
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.215
- Medium and Support
- watercolor on medium white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Christ at the Marriage at Cana
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Vanni
- Physical Description
- This etching depicts a vast and lively gathering of figures around a large banquet table in the foreground accompanied by other crowds of figures throughout the composition. The scene takes place in an outdoor setting surrounded by classical architecture that recedes perspectivally in the distance.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1599 - 1660)
- Object Creation Date
- 1637
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.214
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Angel of Annunciation
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- An angel flying next to a column, drapes above, staircase below.
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.548
- Medium and Support
- gouache and wash on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Portrait of Princess Mary, part of a series of portraits of King George III's Family
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- The Princess is standing with one gloved hand hanging by her side and the other, ungloved, resting on the banister of the stairs. In front of her, the stairs rise to a large stone building (possibly Windsor Castle). In the background is a deep landscape with figures in the distance at the right.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1810
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.564.2
- Medium and Support
- pencil and wash on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Conversion of St. Paul [La Conversione de St. Paul]; Jacques Callot](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.544/2013_2.544.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=9;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- Conversion of St. Paul [La Conversione de St. Paul]
- Artist
- Jacques Callot
- Physical Description
- A battle scene with the sun's rays shining down through the clouds. At the center, a man has fallen from his horse and lays on the ground. From the clouds above, a voice comes down, inscribed "SAVLE SAVLE QVID ME PERSEQVERIS." At base of print is written "Totus lesus in Paulo consumptus est. Chrysost. Iesus-Christ s'est enployé tout entier en ce mystere."
- Artist Life Dates
- 1592-1635
- Century
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.544
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Landscape with Cottage
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Dutch
- Physical Description
- This dark landscape in black chalk features large lush trees that take up most of the composition on the right of the image. A small cottage framed by two smaller trees appears on the left. Three loosely sketched animals frolic in front of the cottage.
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.219
- Medium and Support
- black chalk and graphite on white laid paper, laid down on blue paper, laid down on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Makara - Architectural Fragment
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- The head of a makara sea creature with large swirled waves behind it.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 400-499
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.161
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- André Masson
- Physical Description
- This abstracted drawing in black ink contains a series of lines and shapes that evoke a sense of motion from the upper right to the lower left of the composition. Long parallel lines on a diagonal from the top right to bottom left reinforce this sense of movement. Swirling abstracted forms surround these lines and the composition is speckled with very fine splatterings of ink throughout.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1896-1987
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.175
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Virgin and Child with St. John
- Artist
- Raphael Sadeler I
- Physical Description
- This small black and white engraving depicts a half-length portrait of a woman seated and cloaked in drapery who is attending to and two young boys. The woman supports the boy who looks out toward the viewer while both boys reach toward a plate of fruit resting on the woman’s arm in the center of the composition. The figures are arranged against a black backdrop with a raised curtain framing them at the top and at the upper left.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1560 or 1561 - circa 1628 or 1632
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.208
- Medium and Support
- engraving on medium laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Northern Hill
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- This grayscale print depicts what appears to be an abstracted landscape suggestive of a hill on a horizon line. The lower two-thirds of the square composition are quite uniformly black while the upper third becomes increasingly lighter in value. The print shimmers with varying intensity when looked at under direct light as there appears to be mica incorporated in the ink.
- Object Creation Date
- 1971
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.211
- Medium and Support
- mezzotint on heavy ivory wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Banks of the Thames [Bords de la Tamise]; Artist Unknown](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.577/2013_2.577.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=15;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- Banks of the Thames [Bords de la Tamise]
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- A sparse scene with an empty foreground representing water and a vacant sky above. There is a small house in the center, surrounded by trees and foliage.
- Century
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.577
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on chine collé (Japan tissue laid down on cream laid paper)
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Illumination de la Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
- Artist
- Philbert-Louis Debucourt
- Physical Description
- This colored etching with aquatint depicts a night scene of a large illuminated cascade of fountains. A raised architectural structure with three arches is placed in the center left of the composition. A series of cascades descend from this structure and lead into a pool of water decorated with a series of geyser fountains spouting water upward. Many small groups of figures in elegant costumes are gathered around the water. Their costumes appear to be hand painted in pink, blue, white and black wash. The upper third of the image is devoted to the dark night sky.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1755 - 1832
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1813
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.189
- Medium and Support
- color aquatint printed à la poupée on medium white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- A Waterfall by Moonlight
- Artist
- Stephen Greeling Putnam
- Physical Description
- A landscape in a vertical format with hills on either side and a large tree on the right. There is a small stream going through the center of the two hills.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1852- circa 1931
- Century
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.536
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris; Asger Jorn](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.562/2013_2.562.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=18;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- Untitled [Ohne Titel] (1945) New Year Card for Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
- Artist
- Asger Jorn
- Physical Description
- New Years card with attached print that depicts an abstract figure with one large eye and long hair.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1914-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1945
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.562
- Medium and Support
- etching on heavy wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Soneto Burlesco. A Licito... from the "Góngora: vight poëmes" by Luis de Góngora y Argote
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- Text of poem on left and two portraits of men on either side of text.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881-1973
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.574
- Medium and Support
- aquatint on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Madame Perregeaux (standing)
- Artist
- Horace Vernet
- Physical Description
- A woman in a ruffled long dress, hair pulled back. One foot is peaking out from under the long skirt. Her hands are together at her waist and she has a forlorn look on her face.
- Artist Life Dates
- French, 1789 - 1863
- Century
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.555
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Sketch of the Baths of Caracalla (?)
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- A sketch of ancient ruins. At the center is a colonnaded apse that has partially collapsed. To the left, there are a series of columns. On the reverse, there is a sketch of a sculpture.
- Century
- 18th century?
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.559.1
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire: One of Six Designs for André Rouveyer's "Apollinaire" (weak impression not cut for the book)
- Artist
- Guillaume Appolonaire
- Physical Description
- A line drawing of a man looking to the left. His lips are pursed, wearing a collared shirt.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1880-1918
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.570
- Medium and Support
- lithograph on cream colored wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Composition
- Artist
- Giuseppe Capogrossi
- Physical Description
- This composition features thick black curved and straight lines that intersect to create fork-like abstracted forms. There is a highly saturated red square that punctuates the center of the composition.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1900-1972
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.218
- Medium and Support
- color etching on medium ivory wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Standing Man with Sword
- Artist
- Anonymous English
- Physical Description
- The back of a man in colonial military wear, sword on his side. He is looking to the left, wearing a hat.
- Century
- 17th - early 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.567
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Watercarrier
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A standing figure of a watercarrier holding a bag on his left hand side. His right arm appears to be no longer part of the sculpture. He appears to be weighed down to the one side and his body is tilted. He is wearing a skirt and a turban.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.164
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- La Mode élégante
- Artist
- V. Muchot
- Physical Description
- This colored engraving depicts two women and one child in elaborate dress. The central figure is a woman standing in a dark green dress decorated with lighter green trimmings. Her hair is gathered in a headpiece made up of green ribbons and pink flowers. To the right of her a woman in a black and grey dress sits on a burgundy chaise. The child standing on the left of the composition is outfitted in a navy blue and pale blue costume with a jacket trimmed in white. The child reaches toward something kept in the standing woman’s left hand.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1870
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.200
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving with hand coloring on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Revd. John Breckinridge, A.M.
- Artist
- John Sartain
- Physical Description
- This black and white print depicts a frontal portrait of a man from the waist up with his head in three quarter profile. The figure is clothed in a sumptuous double-breasted black jacket with a wide collar. A white collared shirt and scarf are visible underneath. The figure is positioned against a nondescript background.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1808-1897
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.198
- Medium and Support
- etching with mezzotint on medium white wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Daphnis and Chloe
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- This work depicts a lively outdoor scene in pen and ink with grey wash and pink and blue watercolor. The setting is replete with lush foliage and populated by several figures and animals. A nude female figure stands holding onto a slender fruit tree looking over a body of water in which a winged boy wades holding his hands to his head. Another nude female figure is shown seated on the right holding a dog tied to a leash. Two playful birds and another winged boy are shown in the bottom foreground.
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.217
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink, wash and watercolor on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Portrait of Princess Amelia, part of a series of portraits of King George III's Family
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- The Princess is seated at a desk covered with books. Her hands are resting on her knee and her foot rests on an ottoman. To the left behind her there are drapes and Windsor Castle can be seen through the window.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1810
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.564.1
- Medium and Support
- pencil and wash on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![The Sentinel at the Powder Keg [Die Schildwache bei den Puluerfässern]; Hans Sebald Beham](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.554/2013_2.554.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=30;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- The Sentinel at the Powder Keg [Die Schildwache bei den Puluerfässern]
- Artist
- Hans Sebald Beham
- Physical Description
- Three men standing next to wooden barrels, town scene with a steeple behind. One man has a rifle over his shoulder, hand on hip. The other has a foot against one of the barrels.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1500-1550
- Century
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.554
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- La Justice Protégé les Arts
- Artist
- Gilles Demarteau
- Physical Description
- This crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine depicts a grouping of figures arranged in a celestial space and positioned against clouds. A large female figure draped in cloth dominates the upper portion of the composition. She holds a set of scales in her left hand. Two female figures, one clothed, one nude, gather below at this figure’s sandaled feet in the center left of the composition. The clothed figure holds a palette and paintbrushes while the nude figure holds a mallet and a sculpted portrait of a man’s face. At the bottom right three male figures, one of whom wrestles a snake, appear to be attacking the female figure holding the palette. A clothed figure donning a helmet protects the figure holding the scales in the upper right.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1729-1776
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1763-1767
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.182
- Medium and Support
- crayon-manner engraving, printed in sanguine on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Washington
- Artist
- Frederick Halpin
- Physical Description
- This black and white print depicts a portrait of a seated man holding a sword in one hand and what appears to be a book in the other. The figure wears a black jacket and a white cravat. The figure’s expression is stern and his gaze meets the viewer’s directly. His hair is white and pulled back into a queue.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1805-1880
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.196
- Medium and Support
- engraving and stipple on wove Rives paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Rade de Bordeaux
- Artist
- Maxime Lalanne
- Physical Description
- This black and white etching depicts a winter scene along a harbor. A line of many boats with high masts separates the water from the land at a diagonal from the lower right corner up to the center of the horizon line. On the left side of the horizon line there is a row of tall buildings. On the left and center in the mid-ground are crowds of figures and horse-drawn carriages along the snowy shore. The upper two-thirds of the composition are devoted to the lightly crosshatched sky.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1827-1886
- Object Creation Date
- 1868
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.194
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Figures Listening to a Guitar Player, Malaga
- Artist
- Denis Raffet
- Artist Life Dates
- 1804-1860
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.207
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink over graphite on brown wove paper, laid down on beige wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![The Coronation of the Virgin [ Le Couronnement de la Vierge] from a Book of Hours; Simon Vostre; Printer: Simon Vostre](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.558/2013_2.558.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=35;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_cl;select1=phrase;q1=Gift+of+Nesta+and+Walter+Spink){kind=link}
- Title
- The Coronation of the Virgin [ Le Couronnement de la Vierge] from a Book of Hours
- Artist
- Simon Vostre
- Physical Description
- A woman in the center being crowned. There are angels surrounding her. Christ on a thrown is blessing her.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1508
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.558
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Untitled (Abstract)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- An image of various abstract shapes, resembling body parts. The silhouettes are going in a vertical format from the upper right corner down to the lower left corner.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.529
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Daniel Intervening on Behalf of Susanna
- Artist
- Hans Collaert I
- Physical Description
- A large gathering of figures looks toward a young male figure gesticulating to the crowd on the right with his back to the viewer. Two imposing older male figures are positioned to the left of the young man. The architectural cityscape recedes perspectivally in the distance. A large domed building looms over the horizon line.
- Artist Life Dates
- c. 1530-1581
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1579
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.224
- Medium and Support
- engraving on medium off-white laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Grape Picker
- Artist
- Antonio Frasconi
- Physical Description
- This two-color woodcut in black and pale pink depicts a standing female figure against a black background in vertical format. The figure is shown bending over collecting grapes in the folds of her apron. Her skirt is decorated in a bird motif and her hair is windswept. The verso of this print contains an announcement for an exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York in March and April of 1951.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1919-2013
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1951
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.187
- Medium and Support
- two-color woodcut on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Torso of Goddess
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A small figurine of a torso of a goddess. She has a long oval head with a decorated head piece and dress. Her eyes are circular in shape and hollowed out, so they appear very dark.
- Century
- pre-historic
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.166
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- La Mode élégante
- Artist
- V. Muchot
- Physical Description
- This colored engraving depicts two women in elaborate dress examining an illustration in an interior space. The woman on the left has her back turned to the viewer. She is wearing a dark green dress with an exaggerated bustle. Her head is topped with a green hat decorated with pink ribbons and flowers. She holds an image on paper, which both figures contemplate. The woman on the right is shown in profile and outfitted in a lavender dress that also features an exaggerated bustle. She wears a black hat decorated with lavender flowers and green leaves.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1870
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.202
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving with hand coloring on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Le Bon Ton. Journal de Modes, pl. 90
- Artist
- C. Thierry
- Physical Description
- This colored engraving features two women and a young girl in elaborate dress on a balcony overlooking a vista with mountains in the distance. The woman on the left is seen seated from behind wearing a green dress accented in black ribbons and a black lace-like fabric. The young girl to the right of her leans over the balcony railing and dons a beige dotted dress trimmed with brown. The woman on the right of the composition wears an elaborate white dress with vertical ribbon accents and a hat decorated with pink flowers with green leaves. She holds an unopened fan in her left hand and looks toward the two other figures.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1870
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.199
- Medium and Support
- wood engraving with hand coloring on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Classical scene (Achilles and Hector?)
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- This black and white drawing depicts an outdoor classical scene. In the center of the composition a nude male figure donning an ornate helmet and brandishing a sword drags a lifeless classically draped figure before an altar on the left on top of which rests armor, a helmet and drapery. Behind this altar is positioned another draped male figure. A fully draped figure points toward two mourning female figures in the right midground. The paper is squared for transfer.
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1770-1800
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.204
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink over graphite, heightened with black and white chalk over Stylus (?) on medium buff wove paper, squared for transfer
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Sketch of the Baths of Caracalla (?)
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- This sketch shows ancient ruins. The top half of the page is left empty with sky. At the righ is an apsed portico and from it, to the left of the page, runs a wall studded with windows. In the foreground is a set of stairs with shrubbery overgrowing.
- Century
- 18th century?
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.559.2
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Two Scenes of Armies Fighting
- Artist
- Hans Burgkmair
- Physical Description
- This woodcut features a multitude of armored figures, some of which are on horseback, engaged in a battle with swords and lances in a hilly countryside. Two cannons are arranged on the lower right in the foreground and one cannon is being manipulated by a figure in the lower left corner of the composition. Various flags are included in the image including one with a Burgundian cross. In the distance of the scene there is a walled town with mountains positioned behind it.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1473-1531
- Object Creation Date
- early 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.179
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Portait of Berthe Morisot
- Artist
- Marcellin Desboutin
- Physical Description
- This etching and drypoint is a full-length portrait of a woman dressed in black and seated in an armchair holding a fan at her knees. The chair is turned to the side but the figure is seen frontally and looks directly out at the viewer. The figure and her costume are described in full while the chair and fan are depicted loosely in outline.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1823-1902
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.190
- Medium and Support
- etching and drypoint on heavy wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Alexander Pope Esq.
- Artist
- Jacobus Houbraken
- Physical Description
- The upper portion of this print depicts an ornate round frame inside of which is a three quarter portrait of a man from the waist up with his left hand held to his head. The lower portion of the print depicts the base on which the frame rests decorated with a classical scene of figures in a landscape. A collection of objects including books, a mask, a crown, a tambourine and sheet music rest atop the base.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1698-1780
- Object Creation Date
- 1747
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.209
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on wove paper with printed text on accompanying shet
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Study of Two Angels
- Artist
- Henri Laurens
- Physical Description
- A drawing of two angels side by side in almost the same position.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1885-1954
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.541
- Medium and Support
- black chalk on brown paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Scene with Antique Ruins
- Artist
- Hubert Robert
- Physical Description
- This red-chalk drawing depicts a draped male figure standing with his arms crossed gazing up at a large column with a large urn on top of it amidst classical ruins. Other spoiled sections of columns and an ornate capital are piled next to the central column. The darkly shaded foreground contrasts with the light sky, which takes up the upper three-quarters of the composition.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1733-1808
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.183
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Martyrdom of St. Matthew
- Artist
- Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
- Physical Description
- A haloed man kneels in three-quarter profile in the left center of the foreground of the composition. A male figure stands behind the haloed figure in a wide stance with an ax raised above the kneeling figure's head. In the background is another male figure wearing a pointed hat and a jester or demonic figure shown falling of a column in the distance in the upper left.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1434-1519
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1493
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.205
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on medium ivory laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Adoration of the Shepherds
- Artist
- Nicolaus van Aelst
- Physical Description
- This black and white print depicts a scene with groups of figures separated compositionally by a large wooden post that is placed in the foreground of the composition, just left of center. Four male figures on the left look toward the scene on the right where a woman kneels in prayer before a child accompanied by two angels and a haloed man feeding hay to a donkey.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1526-1613
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1604-1606
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.185
- Medium and Support
- engraving and etching on off-white medium laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink