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1.
A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

Published / Created:
[approximately 1790-1820]
Call Number:
66 790 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
A collection of six gaming counters or monetary tokens from the gambling houses and clubs of Georgian London. Four were made by John Milton (signed "J. Milton f." or "J.M" on the smaller pieces) with an ace of spades encircled with the quote "Honi soi...
Description:
For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Roulette, and Clubs
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era gaming counters issued by London clubs and gaming houses

2.
A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

Published / Created:
[between 1762 and 1820?]
Call Number:
66 762 C697 Shelved in Object Room C:A
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
A collection of seven copper theater passes or tickets for London theatres dating between 1762 and approximately 1820, all blank on the obverse sides except for the token for the Box Prince's Side (BPS 1796) which is decorated with a chain of small li...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Theater
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A collection of Georgian-era tokens for London theaters

3.
BPS. New Theatre Covent Garden 1809 [realia].

Published / Created:
[1809]
Call Number:
809.09.00.06++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Obverse: In the center, letter B above PS below (Box Princes Side); "New Theatre Covent Garden 1809" stamped around the perimeter. Reverse is blank
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token.
Publisher:
New Theatre Covent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Covent Garden (London, England), England, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Theaters
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > BPS. New Theatre Covent Garden 1809 [realia].

4.
Erratic ecologies field station, or, An emergent apparatus for speculative research : for use both

Creator:
Phillips, Justy, artist
Published / Created:
31 October 2019.
Call Number:
2020 +3
Image Count:
71
Resource Type:
text and three-dimensional form
Alternative Title:
Erratic ecologies field station and Emergent apparatus for speculative research
Description:
BEIN 2020 +3: Edition no. 1; with copper printing plate, as issued. Signed by the artists.
Publisher:
by Justy Phillips & Margaret Woodward
Subject (Topic):
Artists' books
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Erratic ecologies field station, or, An emergent apparatus for speculative research : for use both in and out of place and time

5.
Ethiopia

Creator:
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
Published / Created:
[circa 1925]
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 137
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Full-length standing allegorical figure of a woman whose lower portion is in mummy wrappings, and top portion is draped in ancient Egyptian apparel. It is a reduced version of a sculpture designed for the America's Making pageant held in New York in O...
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968.
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors and Sculptors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ethiopia

6.
La fin des mots

Creator:
Bory, Jean-François, 1938- artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1979]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1891 (Art)
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Sculpture created by Jean-François Bory in 1979 comprised of a gilded typewriter adorned with toy soldiers and oversized letters toppled around them, encased in Plexiglas. Signed and dated
Description:
Jean-François Bory (born 1938) is a French poet, writer, editor, visual artist, and filmmaker whose avant-garde work centers on visual poetry and sound poetry. Born in Paris, Bory spent part of his childhood in South East Asia before returning to the...
Subject (Name):
Bory, Jean-François, 1938-
Subject (Topic):
Concrete poetry, French, Experimental poetry, French, and Visual poetry, French
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La fin des mots

7.
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

Creator:
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968, artist
Published / Created:
[20th century]
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 138 (Art)
Container / Volume:
(Art)
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Oval toned plaster plaque reproducing in low relief an engraved portrait of African American poet Phillis Wheatley used as the frontispiece of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Aldgate;...
Description:
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), African American sculptor, painter, and poet who lived and worked in Paris and Philadelphia in the early twentieth century.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968. and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784
Subject (Topic):
African American sculptors, African American women poets, Poets, American, and Sculptors
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

8.
Sir Jeffery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat [realia].

Published / Created:
[1795]
Call Number:
LWL Min. 151 Object Room in Box 4
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Obverse: In center, full-length portrait of Jeffery Dunstan facing right; legend inscription with Dunstan's name and title as Mayor of Garrat. Reverse: In center, six lines of inscription with T. Hall's address and date, the penulitimate line is much ...
Alternative Title:
T. Hall, Citty Road near Finsbury Square, London, 1795
Description:
Title from text on obverse side of token.
Publisher:
Thomas Hall
Subject (Name):
Hall, Thomas (Taxidermist), Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797., and Dunstan, Jeffery, 1759?-1797,
Subject (Topic):
Human curiosities
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sir Jeffery Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat [realia].

9.
The knocker from the door of Dr. Johnson's house

Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, associated name
Published / Created:
[circa 1740s-1780s]
Call Number:
GEN MSS 2005
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
Iron door knocker, purportedly from a house associated with Samuel Johnson, circa 1740s-1780s. The knocker is mounted on a wooden panel, set into a clamshell box. At the foot of the panel is a brass plaque, engraved with information about the door kno...
Description:
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was an English author and lexicographer. He lived in many locations throughout his life, including two houses in London: 17 Gough Square, where he lived from 1748-1749, and 8 Bolt Court, where he lived beginning in 1776.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Smith, John Thomas, 1766-1833., and Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Architecture, Domestic, Authors, English, Building fittings, and Door knockers
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The knocker from the door of Dr. Johnson's house

10.
[Lord Byron's rose].

Published / Created:
[1822]
Call Number:
YCGL MSS 54 (Art)
Container / Volume:
Box 1 (Art)
Image Count:
23
Resource Type:
three-dimensional form
Abstract:
One pressed dried rose which had been worn by the English poet George Gordon Byron on his lapel when he toured the frigate U.S.S. Constitution, anchored off Leghorn (Livorno), Italy, on May 21, 1822. The rose was given as a memento to Catharine Potter...
Description:
George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron (1788-1824), English poet.
Subject (Name):
Brandegee, Elishama, 1814-1884., Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Stith, Townshend, Mrs., 1795-1839., and Constitution (Frigate)
Subject (Topic):
Poets, English
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Lord Byron's rose].

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