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- 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 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
- 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=12;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
- 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=14;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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Regent Duck, Dutch Galliot
- Artist
- Edward William Cooke
- Physical Description
- Sketches of a ship, seamen and their distinct Dutch clogs, and of masts.
- Artist Life Dates
- British, 1811 - 1880
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- December 13, 1827
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.553
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Classical Scene after Panini
- Artist
- Anonymous French
- Physical Description
- An outdoor scene of a man next to a stone fountain, with a man on a horse and various other people around. The fountain has an arched top and is part of a stone wall with other rounded arched openings. There is a decoration of an ornate handled urn. There is also a fleur-de-lis watermark.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.538
- Medium and Support
- pen and wash on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Head of Bodhisattva (mounted)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- The head of Bodhisattva looking straight ahead. She has an elaborate crown on the top of her head that has many swirls and dots.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 400-499
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.168
- Medium and Support
- Mathura sandstone
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- View of a Hilltown
- Artist
- Pierre Antoine Patel
- Physical Description
- This pen and ink and wash drawing depicts a view of a town amidst a hilly landscape. A dog stands atop a hill and looks toward a body of water in the midground. A cluster of buildings are scattered throughout the composition. The central building has a large arched portico. Clouds of smoke appear to be billowing out of buildings.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1648-1707
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.197
- Medium and Support
- pen and brown and black ink grey wash over red chalk on thin laid paper laid down on medium laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Etude du tableau de la dame de Charité
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Raphaël Urbain Massard
- Physical Description
- This black and white engraving features a portrait of a young woman in a roundel in the upper portion of the print. The young woman’s face is shown in three-quarter profile. Her hair is pulled back and her head is partially covered in a hooded cloak that appears to be bordered with fur. In the lower register of the print there is an illustration framed by a decorative wreath. The illustration features a bedroom scene populated by several figures. A figure lies on the bed on the right of this image while several figures attend to the bed-ridden figure, including a woman whose costume mirrors that of the woman in the roundel above this image. In this image she is accompanied by a child whom she embraces as she gestures toward the figure on the bed.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1740-1822
- Object Creation Date
- 1772
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.176
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Three Women and a Man in the Garden
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- Oval format, three women next to a man in a group, one man off in the distance. Garden setting.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.547
- Medium and Support
- engraving on laid paper, oval format
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Boaz and the Elders. from the Story from Ruth in Gerard de Jode's "Thesaurus Sacrarum historiarum Veteris et Novi Testamenti"
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- A group of men in an outdoor setting of a stone structure all seated having a conversation. Towards the one side you can see two houses in the distance. The men are all wearing cloaks.
- Century
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.534
- Medium and Support
- engraving on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Assumption of the Virgin [L'Assomption]; Jacques Callot](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.543/2013_2.543.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=37;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
- Assumption of the Virgin [L'Assomption]
- Artist
- Jacques Callot
- Physical Description
- Saints below surrounding a stone pedestal with the inscription "Non est hic. Mat 28", with the Virgin Mary above in the clouds with arms spread out surrounded by smaller angels. At the bottom edge of the print is engraved (left) "Callot fecit" and (center right) "Israel ex. cum priuil. Reg.".
- Artist Life Dates
- 1592-1635
- Century
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.543
- Medium and Support
- etching on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Seated Boy with Pot
- Artist
- Martin Drolling
- Physical Description
- This graphite drawing depicts a full-length portrait of a young boy sitting on a loosely described ledge and resting his feet on a rock. The figure holds a circular pot or basket in his lap. There is some slight shading throughout the image but otherwise it is quite loosely sketched in outline.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1789 - 1851)
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.178
- Medium and Support
- graphite on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Portion of Ramayana Narrative Frieze
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A section of a frieze displaying two people side by side. They both have their left hands across their chests and are wearing skirts.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 400-499
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.160
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Aqueduct of Nerone, Tivoli
- Artist
- Joseph Antoine David de Marseille
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts a landscape with two figures against a tree in dark wash in the lower left foreground and a faintly washed mid-ground scene of a relief of a crowd of figures on an architectural element. An arch of an aqueduct and a faint castle tower somewhat in ruins appear in the background surrounded by lush foliage.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1725-1789
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.191
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink, black chalk and grey wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Flying Dragon
- Artist
- Georges Rouault
- Physical Description
- This black and white print depicts a creature with an alligator-like open jaw with three sharp teeth. The creature takes up most of the image and appears to be floating in space. A black ground with a suggestion of a small plant appears at the lower edge of the composition.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1871-1958
- Object Creation Date
- 1928
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.186
- Medium and Support
- etching, aquatint and roulette on heavy laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Rocky Hillside
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- This black and white chalk drawing on blue paper depicts a loosely sketched landscape featuring rock formations and small hills. The rocks in the foreground are highlighted in white chalk as is what appears to be a glimpse of sky in the upper right corner.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.193
- Medium and Support
- black and white chalk on blue 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
- Sketch of ruins. In the foreground, piles of rubble can be see. At the back, there are a series of entrances flanked by columns.
- Century
- 18th century?
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.559.4
- Medium and Support
- red crayon on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Page from a Printer's or Engraver's Album: Nine Caricatures, includgin works by Henri Daumer and Jean Théophile Gustave Lesestre
- Artist
- Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Physical Description
- Nine charactures of men on the same sheet in various situations.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1808-1879
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.533
- Medium and Support
- various media on wood pulp paper mounted on thick paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Sheet of Sketches and Caricatures
- recto: studies for a group of figures (religious or allegorical) and two studies of standing women, one with child
- verso: two sets of couples in caricature in contemporary dress
- Artist
- Anonymous French
- Physical Description
- First side: Various people, one holding her hands below her waist, one speaking to a little boy, a group clustered together.
- Second side: two fashionably dressed couples (man and woman) walking.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1866
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.563.1-2
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper (double-sided drawing)
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Serpent Speaking to a Young Man (Allegory)
- Artist
- Anonymous Italian
- Physical Description
- There are three figures. At the left is a man running away. At the center is a woman holding a lute and at the right is a man seated with his hand on his head. At the center, there is a woman-headed serpent facing the seated man. Behind the seated man is an apple tree and in the far distance there is a large fortified city.
- Century
- 15th-16th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.576
- Medium and Support
- engraving on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto; Bernard Picart](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.566/2013_2.566.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=47;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
- Night Scene from Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's "The Lectern" [Le Lutrin], Illustration for the 3rd Canto
- Artist
- Bernard Picart
- Physical Description
- Three men standing in a surprised movement with an owl coming out of an overturned lectern. There is decorated border around the drawing.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1673-1733
- Century
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.566
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- Landscape with Mountains and Castle and Hunter
- Artist
- Giovanni Maria Verdizotti
- Physical Description
- In the right foreground of a landscape scene there is a male figure reclining before two tall trees. The figure holds a wooden staff in one arm and points toward his dog with the other. In the distance there is a lake and mountainous landscape replete with many buildings. Several long-necked birds fly in the sky.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1525-1600
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.220
- Medium and Support
- etching and engraving on medium laid paper, tipped down on heavy white laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
![The Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann; Anonymous; Circle of Albrecht Dürer](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.550.1-2/2013_2.550.1-2.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=49;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 Detraction of Good Things [Detractio Bonorum] from Sebastian Brant's "Stultifera navis [The Ship of Fools]" published by Johann Bergmann
- Artist
- Anonymous
- Physical Description
- Text on both sides. One side has the image of a man with dogs at his feet. There is also a jester at his feet, kneeling down.
- Century
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.550.1-2
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
- Title
- The View on the Taking of Quebec. Showing the manner of debarking of English forces of the resolute scrambling of the light Infantry up a Woody Precipice to dislodge the Captain's Post, which defended a small entrenched path, through which the troops were to pass. Also a view of the signal victory obtain'd over The French Regulars, Canadians and Indians which produc'd the Surrender of Quebec. Printed for Carrington Bowles, Map + Printseller, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Ships coming upon the banks and disembarking for the battle that can be see on the left.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- September 13, 1759; executed 1760's
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.561
- Medium and Support
- hand-colored engraving on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 12.54326
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink