Woodblock depicting scene of the miracle of Christ stilling the wind and waves
Description:
Accompanied by: Christmas card from "the Wilsons," dated 1930, containing a print made from the woodblock and attributing the block to a craftsman in the Netherlands, circa 1480., Date uncertain., Bookplate: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., and Binding: modern cloth case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Art, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Christian art and symbolism
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting landscapes in perspective. The second portion of the treatise (ff. 84r-95v) is, according to the title-page, the work of Antonello Bertozzi (fl. ca. 1590). The focus of this section is on painting watercolor portraits rather than on painting landscapes. On ff. 97v-113v, miscellaneous additions in at least 3 hands, dated 1612-1627
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in upright humanistic bookhand for arts. 1 and 2 and for the headings in art. 3. Main text in a gently sloping italic script. Additions on ff. 95v-113v by several hands, some very cursive and poorly formed., Simple headpieces, in brown pen, for beginning of some chapters., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with a gold-tooled spine: "Mariani Della Miniatur [sic]".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Technique, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miniature painting, Italian, and Workshop recipes
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Wilkie asking Lady Holland to accept his gift of "two small and imperfect sketches, made from recollection, on my way back from Falmouth, of the two Portraits by Vandyke, of the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Holland." He explains that the portraits will interest Lady Holland for "having been painted in Holland House." The letter is accompanied by the two watercolor sketches mentioned in the letter, which are signed and dated 1834
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845., Holland family., and Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Letters, Portrait painting, Watercolor painting, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
