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By Mary Beth Rogers and Chuck Hill
Collection Overview
Title: Prints & Drawings Collection, 1833-1999
Extent: 0.45 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 10/07/2002
Languages: English, Chinese
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Prints & Drawings Collection consists of a variety of prints, lithographs, engravings and original art work that were mostly acquired as single items. There is little biographical, historical or acquisition information that would warrant the creation of a separate finding aid.
Collection Historical Note
The provenance of the majority of the material in this collection is unknown; however, if an individual item or group of documents has any acquisition information, it will be indicated in brackets at the end of the description. Where biographical or historical information is available it has been included in the description of the item(s) or a note has been made where to find that information.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
N/A
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
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Box 1],
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Box 2],
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Box 3],
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Box 4],
[Folder 1: Prints, Drawings, Poetry, 1835-1970],
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Folder 2: Political Cartoons, circa 1960],
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All]
- Folder 1: Prints, Drawings, Poetry, 1835-1970
- Item 1: Boone Tavern, n.d.
- By Michael Hardesty
- Item 2: Tate's Creek Ferry, n.d.
- By Michael Hardesty
- Item 3: Madison County Court House, n.d.
- By Michael Hardesty
- Item 4: Sternwheeler Dixie Belle at Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky, n.d.
- By Sandra Cundiff (signed as Sandy Cundiff)
- Item 5: Boone's First View of Kentucky., 1858ca.
- Hand-tinted. This appears to be a page cut from the book "Historical Collections of the Great West" by Henry Howe. [The print does not have a page number that appears in the 1855 edition of the book located in the EKU Archives, Special Collections.
- Item 6: Engraved Portrait of Daniel Boone, 1835
- By James Barton Longacre after a painting by Chester Harding. It bears a facsimile Daniel Boone signature and has a small piece of paper pasted to it with the signature of "Capt. Nat Harte" [this may be Nathaniel Hart, Jr., son of Nathaniel Hart and Sarah Simpson, who was born in Caswell Co., NC, 30 Sep 1770 and died 7 Feb 1844 in "Spring Hill," Woodford Co., KY, at 73 years of age. He is buried in Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY]
- Item 7: Louisville, 1850ca.
- Steel plate engraving. It features the Louisville Hotel at the foreground of a busy street scene and bears the inscriptions "Aud d. Kunstanst. d.Bibliogr. Instit. in Hildbh" and "Eigenthum d. Verleger.
- Item 8: Die Mammuths Hohle (Mammoth Cave) in Kentucky, 1854
- Steel plate engraving by Herrmann J. Meyer. It shows two elegantly dressed couples exploring the cave, illuminated only by a torch held by one of the men, and bears the inscriptions "Aud d. Kunstanst. d.Bibliogr. Instit. in Hildbh" and "Eigenthum d. Verleger.
- Item 9: Native Dancer: Horse of the Year 1952, 1952ca.
- Published by W.W. & L. Lithography.
- Item 10: View of Smithland, KY, n.d.
- It features a steamboat named "Old Kentucke" approaching a landing with various other steamboats and flatboats
- Item 11: Theological Seminary, West 2nd St., n.d.
- Published by P. Desobry's Lithography. It shows several buildings in the background, along a dirt road with a fenced-in pasture in the foreground, and bears a handwritten inscription "Theological Seminary, West 2nd St., Present Site - H___? Apartment - in 1820, Bishop Smith, Pres."
- Item 12: City of Louisville, 1872ca.
- Steel plate engraving. Published by D. Appleton, New York, E.P. Brandard, engraver, after Asa Coolidge Warren (1819-1904), artist. Depicts the Ohio River with a railroad bridge in foreground, steamboat passing underneath and buildings of Louisville in background
- Item 13: The Little White Girl, 1912
- James McNeil Whistler, produced by and signed in his own hand by T.R. Way. T.R. Way was associated with Whistler, and was encouraged by Whistler to copy his works. It depicts a woman holding a fan and looking into a mirror over a fireplace
- Item 14: Cumberland Gap, 1872
- Steel plate engraving. Hand-tinted. By Harry C. Fenn and is an illustration from Picturesque America. This print was published by D. Appleton & Co., New York (2 copies, each tinted differently)
- Item 15: Illustrated Poems by Lee Pennington, 1970
- The following four prints appear to be a set that were sold together (there are 2 copies of the poems but only one copy of the portrait. The poems are signed by the poet Lee Pennington - in his own hand - but the portrait is not). The artist may be Bonnie Bach (?) but the signature is difficult to read.
- Item 16: Portrait of Lee Pennington smoking a pipe
- print 106/500
- Item 17: Poem by Lee Pennington
- You, Poets - print 106/500 & 242/500 (2 copies)
- Item 18: Poem by Lee Pennington
- For Joy at Snowtime - print 106/500 & 242/500 (2 copies)
- Item 19: Poem by Lee Pennington
- When the Leaves Turn Green - print 106/500 & 242/500 (2 copies)
- Item 20: Drawing, n.d.
- Pen and Ink. Trees with no leaves in front of mountains. "Make the darks heavier over entire drawing. We want a flatter effect." is written in pencil underneath the drawing
- Item 21: Drawing, n.d.
- Pen and Ink. The corner building of a log fort with a tree an stump in front of it. "Try to make a flatter design" and " more darks in house under eaves; so indicated" are written in pencil beneath the drawing
- Item 22: Kentucky State Flag in Color, n.d.
- Item 23: Godey's Fashions, March 1863
- Hand-tinted centerfold from Godey's Lady's Book showing several women and a child in the fashions of the day.
- Item 24: First Flag of the American Republic
- Item 25: First Flag of American Expansion
Browse by Box:
[
Box 1],
[
Box 2],
[
Box 3],
[
Box 4],
[Folder 1: Prints, Drawings, Poetry, 1835-1970],
[
Folder 2: Political Cartoons, circa 1960],
[
All]
