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Antique Prints Blog: May 2013
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013. St Louis Mercantile Library. Earlier this month I attended for the first time the St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book and Paper Arts Fair. We have exhibited there for all 8 years of its existence, but it was always my partner, Don Cresswell, who attended. This year it made more sense for me to go, which I was pleased about as I had never really spent any time in St. Louis. The Mercantile Library has moved several times-—it is now housed at the University of Missouri-St. Lou...The col...
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Antique Prints Blog: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. America as an Indian Woman. We just acquired a late eighteenth-century, French print, “L’Amerique,” representing America as a handsome Indian woman. The image is very Europeanized, with classical features, the only exotic aspect being the feathered headdress with the sun symbol on the front. The 18th century was a time when allegories were popular and the use of an Indian figures to represent America was quite common, indicating that this was universally understood by those ...
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Antique Prints Blog: Maps of Ireland and the Black Irish
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Friday, March 13, 2015. Maps of Ireland and the Black Irish. The term “Black Irish” is usually used to describe Irish who have dark features, black hair and dark eyes (in contrast to the more “typical” stereotype of the fair skinned, blue eyed and blond or red headed Irish). The Black Irish are generally found in western Ireland. There are a number of explanations of the origin of the Black Irish, but my favorite has to do with maps! So why did the Spanish turn south too soon? In any case, by the end of ...
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Antique Prints Blog: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. THE SEARCH FOR EL DORADO. Of all the legends relating to America, perhaps the most recognizable myth concerns “the search for El Dorado.” While this phrase is very familiar, the actual story behind the hunt of El Dorado is not. This myth is one of my particular favorites, for it has all the elements of a great story—-mystery, riches, adventures, madness, deaths- and to my delight, maps. The lake and its golden city continued to appear in the seventeenth century, changing shape an...
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Antique Prints Blog: 20th Century Pictorial Maps
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Monday, May 11, 2015. 20th Century Pictorial Maps. Maps have long had a pictorial element to them. Maps can, of course, be fairly “cartographic” in appearance, using lines, dots, contour lines, and other symbols, but for centuries other maps have been more illustratively graphic. A new type of pictorial map, though, made its appearance about the second decade of the 20th century. These pictorial maps added a pictographic element to the underlying cartographic rendering, adding a visual narrative onto...
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Antique Prints Blog: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Meat Extract and Chromolithography. A rather unusual juxtaposition of subjects, but one which is delightfully represented in a set of six cards issued by the Liebig Meat Extract Company in the late nineteenth century. Card 1: The first card shows the artist composing the subject in his studio. He is drawing a water color onto a sheet of paper, carefully working on an image of the exact size of the intended print. The portrait of Liebig is printed in gold and yellow and is...Card ...
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Antique Prints Blog: Joseph Hoover & Sons
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Thursday, December 10, 2009. Joseph Hoover and Sons. In the last blog, I talked about the wonderful print illustrated above by Joseph Hoover, a Philadelphia printmaker. Today I'll talk a bit about this publisher whose firm lasted into the early 20th century. January 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM. January 26, 2010 at 9:39 AM. May 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM. Is there any value to one of the wood frames made by j.Hoover, phalada? May 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM. December 8, 2012 at 6:56 PM. 8226; Joseph Hoover:. Dear Chris, I have...
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Antique Prints Blog: December 2012
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012. Over the weekend I watched the 2002 version of the movie Solaris. Which though I am a Sci Fi fan was not my favorite example of that genre. Be that as it may, it did have a map in the background of one of the scenes. This is a scene with Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) and Rheya (Natascha McElhone) in the kitchen of Chris' apartment. If you look closely, in the background is a 19th century map (Johnson? Maps also appear in this year's movie Lincoln. Discussed in an earlier post.
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Antique Prints Blog: May 2014
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Friday, May 23, 2014. Slavery and the American West. 8220;…we tend to treat these two mid-nineteenth-century narratives as geographically distinct: a battle over slavery engulfs the East while mineral rushes and migration transform the West.” (Susan Schulten, “The Civil War and the Origins of the Colorado Territory,” Western Historical Quarterly. 44, p 21). The fissure in the nation caused by slavery began to widen with the Louisiana purchase of 1803. In the early days of the republic, there was a ro...
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Antique Prints Blog: October 2012
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Thursday, October 18, 2012. Maps and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. I recently finished reading Susan Schulten’s fascinating Mapping the Nation. History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America. This scholarly work examines the development and importance of thematic maps in the United States during the 19th century. (The maps discussed in the books and an interesting blog by Susan can be found on the Mapping the Nation web site. In the previous blog. This map was seen as an effective way to raise awarenes...