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Ex Libris, Dr. P. Blondin

Creator:: Aanson, T.
Blondin, P., M.D.
Published / Created:: 1907
Collection Title:: Bookplate Collection
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: Prints & Photographs
Description:: A large toad in front of a large glass flask. To the left is a torch; to the right is a nude woman. A flower dangles over the image, which sits inside a large leaf.
Subject (Name):: Blondin, P.
Subject (Topic):: Frog, Nature, Physicians, Torches, Woman, and Women
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Ex Libris, Dr. P. Blondin

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La passe solitaire

Creator:: Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550
Published / Created:: [between 1509 and 1525]
Call Number:: Beinecke MS 1201
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 178
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, incomplete, containing the text of a prose allegorical pilgrimage of the soul. The narrator's soul is led by Dame Inspiration to the Fountain of Penitence (Fontaine de penitence); after being washed there, the soul continues her journey toward the Promised Land (Terre de promission) on the Ship of Penitence (Navire de penitence).
Description:: In Middle French., Laid in: autograph letter,signed, from the Liverpool bookseller Jaggard to Allan Heywood Bright, 1896 April 27, concerning the unknown early provenance of the manuscript. With autograph and typed notes by Allan Heywood Bright, 1898 and undated., Title from ownership inscription by Remy Megret (f80r)., Opening sentence: Les continuelles meditationes de la volubilite et soudaine mutation des creatures raisonnables., Layout: single columns of 19 lines., Script: gothic bastarda., and Decoration: 13 large full-color miniatures in architectural frames illustrating various events in the allegorical pilgrimage of the author's soul, guided by Dame Inspiration. The opening miniature is full-page and depicts the author asleep beneath a tree hung with her coat of arms. Other subjects include: the soul, accompanied by Dame Inspiration, begins her pilgrimage to the Fontaine de Penitence f.9; Inspiration explains to the soul what needs to be done in order to reach the Fontaine de Penitence f.11, the soul, carried on the back of Inspiration, flies to the Château de Contention diabolique f.17, Inspiration and the soul meet Raison f.20; the soul enters the Chemin de Crainte de Dieu f.35; souls are cleansed in the Fontaine de Penitence f.47; the soul sets off on her journey to the Terre de Promission f.50v; the company journey to the coast where they find boats awaiting them f.53; the company embark f.58; the company sets off on the Navire de Penitence f.61; the company is attacked by seven other boats f.63; the company is swept up by the Vent de Hypocrisie f.69v.
Subject (Geographic):: Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):: Amboise, Catherine d', 1481?-1550. and Megret, Remy.
Subject (Topic):: Allegories, Devotional literature, French, French prose literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, French, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance, Manuscripts, Medieval, Repentance, Soul, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors, French
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La passe solitaire

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"Just a question of directing that energy into another field-- quilting, for example" [art original]

Creator:: Arno, Peter, 1904-1968, artist
Published / Created:: [1936]
Call Number:: Print10163
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Drawn for publication in The New Yorker, 19 December 1936., Title derived from caption., Signed in charcoal below center., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):: Psychiatrists, Women, and Aggression
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Just a question of directing that energy into another field-- quilting, for example" [art original]

4.
Cicely [graphic]

Creator:: Baldrey, John, 1758- printmaker
Published / Created:: [25 November 1783]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:: Page 33. Bunbury album.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A woman sitting on a stool in a landscape, looking up from her writing, upon a wedge on her lap, a cat reaching up to her knee for attention at left, a man packing a gun through a fence beside a house at right, a tower and woods in the distance beyond at left; circular design after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from text below image., For an earlier state, published 12 November 1781 by J. Baldrey and sold by R. Wilkinson, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3003., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text below title: "The rival of the parson's maid was she." Gay., Companion print to: Marian., Plate numbered "6" above image., and Mounted on page 33 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:: Pubd. Novr. 25, 1783, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Women, Writing, Cats, and Dwellings
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cicely [graphic]

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Winter [graphic]

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, engraver
Published / Created:: [1788]
Call Number:: 788.00.00.36
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Half-length young woman, looking three-quarter to right, wearing a hat; her hands concealed in a large muff in front of her chest; after F. Wheatley."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title engraved below image., Caption below title: Bless my heart how cold it is. Oh mon dieu, qu'il fait froid., One in a series of the four seasons., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Cold, Hats, Clothing & dress, Women, and Young adults
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Winter [graphic]

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The apothecary [graphic]

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1815]
Call Number:: Print20000
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., Based on the 1752 painting The Apothecary., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecary shops, interior; Apothecaries.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Drugstores, Dentistry, Pharmacists, Women, Aloes, Priests, and Bellows
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The apothecary [graphic]

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[Two ladies with a picnic basket] [art original].

Creator:: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808, artist
Published / Created:: [between 1770 and 1808]
Call Number:: Drawings B373 no. 1 Box D200
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Two young women sit near a secluded stand of trees looking at each other. The one on the right rests her arm on a picnic basket as she turns left to look at her companion who is stretched out behind her on the ground, a large white shawl draped over her head as she rests her check on her hand
Description:: Title and date supplied by cataloger., Lady Diana Beauclerk, English artist, 1734-1808., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):: Picnic baskets, Picnics, Women, and Friendship
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Two ladies with a picnic basket] [art original].

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[The lady and death] [graphic]

Creator:: Beham, Sebald, 1500-1550, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1541]
Call Number:: Print00976
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title supplied by curator., Place of origin derived from printmaker's place of residence in 1541., Date from item., In image top: Omnem in homine venustatem mors abolet., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Death (Personification)., Mortality, Women, Skeletons, Hourglasses, and Lilies
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [The lady and death] [graphic]

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[Three women in the bath] [graphic]

Creator:: Beham, Sebald, 1500-1550, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1548]
Call Number:: Print00029
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title supplied by curator., Place of origin derived from printmaker's place of residence in 1548., Date from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Bathing customs, Public baths, Sex, Women, and Bathing
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > [Three women in the bath] [graphic]

10.
The night beauty [graphic]

Creator:: Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 January 1793]
Call Number:: 793.01.02.04
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A young man (left) holds his right hand between his face and the flame of a candle in the candlestick in holds in his left hand. He is also shielding his view of the older woman who gazes down at him admiringly. She holds a rose in her right hand that rests on her left arrm
Description:: Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: Publish'd Jany. 2d 1793 by M. Benedetti, No. 92 Norton Street, Marybone
Subject (Topic):: Candlesticks, Couples, Men, and Women
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The night beauty [graphic]