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[Wanted: Willie Nelson]

Description: Illustration of a t-shirt design by artist Steve Brooks for Willie Nelson, 1973.
Date: 1973
Creator: Brooks, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["A Western Lake by Sunset"]

Description: Steel engraving on a book leaf titled "A Western Lake by Sunset" depicting a vast landscape surrounding a distant lake and small rivers. On the verso side of the leaf are penciled notes about its missing companion page, page numbers and the collectors' information.
Date: 1851
Creator: Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886 & Smillie, James, 1807-1885
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Residence of Robert H. Rose esq." etching and engraving print]

Description: Etching and engraving titled "Residence of Robert H. Rose Esq." depicts the palatial historic home and grounds owned by Robert H. Rose in New York state. Several deer are resting on the lawn and several people are visible as silhouettes near the building.
Date: 1845
Creator: Smillie, James, 1807-1885 & Hinshelwood, Robert, 1812-1879
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching of a woman floating over a dead man on the shore of the sea]

Description: Etching print of a woman hovering over a dead man washed up on the shore of the sea. The print, "Elegy" was designed and printed by John Hamilton Mortimer on December 8th, 1778.
Date: December 8, 1778
Creator: Mortimer, Hamilton John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Stars" mezzotint engraving]

Description: Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.
Date: [1797..1856]
Creator: Sartain, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["Ben J. Franklin L.L.D." engraving print]

Description: Engraving of "Ben J. Franklin L.L.D." for European Magazine printed on April 1, 1783. The design is attributed to William Angus and printed by J. Fielding. The engraving shows an image of founding father Benjamin Franklin in a circular frame to replicate a painting by F. Schwediauer.
Date: April 1, 1783
Creator: Angus, William & Feilding, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Engraving for the Naval Chronicle of lieutenant John T. Shubrick]

Description: Engraving print of Navy Lieutenant John T. Shubrick published by Analeclic Magazine, The Naval Chronicle, and Moses Thomas in 1816. The print shows a portrait at a small scale on a leaf that is damaged and torn along all four edges.
Date: 1816
Creator: Thomas, Moses & Ginbrede
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching of a man with coins]

Description: Etching "Portrait of Man", designed Guercino Da Cento and printed by Austrian printmaker Adam Bartsch, in 1782. The print shows a man illustrated with loose and energetic lines standing and pointing at coins resting on a table.
Date: 1782
Creator: Da Cento, Guercino & Bartsch, Adam
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving "David Tenier's House"]

Description: Etching and engraving of "David Tenier's House" published on August 15, 1757. The design was attribute to Dutch miniaturist David Eniers the Younger (1610-1690) and was printed by English printmaker Thomas Major (1720-1799). The image shows a large manor house on the right edge of a river bank with a bridge arching over the river. A group of three fisherman are gathered on the shore in the foreground communicating the scale of the rest of the scene to the viewer.
Date: August 15, 1757
Creator: Major, Thomas & Eniers the Younger, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Beggars Opera" etching and engraving]

Description: Etching and engraving print of an lively outdoor opera with a small pit orchestra and performers in animals masks. The print, "The Beggars Opera", published in 1728 was printed for John Bonles and The Black Horse in Cornhill.
Date: 1728
Creator: Hogarth, William; Blake, William & Bonles, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Engraving of a woman holding a cross by Vitali]

Description: Italian engraving print of a woman holding a cross possibly the catholic female saint Margaret of Antioch. The print was a collaboration between painter Guidus Reni and was translated and printed by Pietro Marco Vitali in Rome in 1782. The image is accompanied by descriptive Italian text.
Date: 1782~
Creator: Reni, Guidus & Vitali, Pietro Marco
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait etching and engraving of actor David Garrick]

Description: Etching and engraving of English actor David Garrick printed on December 1st, 1773. The design is attributed to N. Dance and was printed by British engraver and painter John Hall. The image surrounded by a detailed oval frame and two cherubs holding symbolic objects tied to drama and the theatre.
Date: December 1, 1773
Creator: Hall, John & Dance, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Man swinging an axe at a snake while his wife jumps back in surprise]

Description: Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.
Date: [1695..1800]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving of a group of four men conversing]

Description: Etching and engraving of a group of four men conversing circa 1700. The print shows three of the men bowing and acknowledging one other that is facing the others with his back to a glass panned window. Then men all wear or have wings with them with long curls as was the style at this time. They wear knee length coats tied at the hips with sashes. The man standing apart wears a sword at his side.
Date: 1700
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving of the burial shrine of Odeschalco]

Description: Etching and engraving of the Italian noble family Odeschalcos burial shrine printed circa 1800. The print is attributed to designer Leopoldo Buzi and printmaker Giovannia Acquaroni. The print show a line etching of the shrine with Latin text on its front at the top of a stone platform with stairs flanked by two statues of Roman muses. The image is paired with descriptive Italian text below the printed image.
Date: 1800
Creator: Buzi, Leopoldo & Acquaroni, Giovannia
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Biblical etching and engraving of a group of men gambling at a table]

Description: Etching and engraving of a biblical illustration showing a group of seven men gambling at a table. The game in question involves coins, cups and dice and takes place in an outdoor courtyard. A small boy appears to be running up to the table to interject into the adult conversation.
Date: 1700
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving print of a man begging on a stoop]

Description: Etching and engraving print of a man begging to a group of four men on a building stoop. The image shows a courtyard in the background with two women walking together and a stray dog. The men appear to either be blessing the beggar or turning him away.
Date: 1700
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Portrait engraving of John Trumball]

Description: Copperplate engraving print of John Trumbull Esq. holding a book. The print was designed and printed by American engraver Elkanah Tisdale and published by John Buel.
Date: 1700
Creator: Tisdale, Elkanah & Buel, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etcing and engraving "Puer parvulus minabiteos"]

Description: French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 & Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two Mourners and Hope at Washingtons Grave]

Description: Engraving by Boston printmaker Thomas Clarke showing a man and woman weeping into handkerchiefs in front of the grave of George Washington. Washington's monument includes his face engraved below a cherubim and the epitaph "There is Reft in Heaven" and is set at the foot of a weeping willow. The two figures are being consoled by a figure of Hope, who stands by an anchor and points to heaven.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Clark, Thomas
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Description: Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of… more
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Adam & Eve frontispiece etching]

Description: Etching print included as the frontispiece of a unknown volume printed in 1780. The plate includes a classic biblical image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden at the moment the snake offers the fruit to Eve. The image includes excellent details of various animals scattered around the pint such as a frog, various insects, birds and a partially hidden cow laying in the tree line.
Date: 1780~
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving print "Porcie" from the portfolio "Galerie des Femmes fortes"]

Description: Etching and engraving of the historical female figure "Porcie" wearing roman style robes published in 1647 as part of the series "Galerie des Femmes fortes". The image is paired with descriptive French text that reads "Porcie at the edge of the burning coals, to go after her husband: and by the boldness and novelty of her death, equal to the reputation of Cato and the glory of Brutus."
Date: 1647
Creator: Rousselet, Gilles; Bosse, Abraham; Mariette, Pierre & Vignon, Claude
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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