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Total number of items in Gallery Catalog:  161

Most recent addition to the She-philosopher.com Gallery:  Fite & Freeman’s reproduction of the “Velasco Map” (1926)

Date Gallery Catalog last updated:  4 September 2014

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Baroque Art of Information Design
Baroque Camera Technologies
Frontispiece & Title-Page Engravings
Hydrography
Maps of Virginia
Maps (miscellaneous)
Melancholy
Nature Studies
The Plural I
Portraits of “Blacke Moores”
Portraits (miscellaneous)
Printing & the Graphic Arts
Prudentia Iconography
She-Philosopher Iconography

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BAROQUE ART OF INFORMATION DESIGN

•  28 illustrations from Michael Evans’ “The Geometry of the Mind” showing medieval designers’ use of diagrams, particularly circles and trees, to present complex structures in a readily comprehensible form: Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6, Figure 7 verso & Figure 7 recto, Figure 8 verso & Figure 8 recto, Figure 9, Figure 10 verso & Figure 10 recto, Figure 11, Figure 12, Figure 13, Figure 14, Figure 15, Figure 16, Figure 17, Figure 18, Figure 19, Figure 20, Figure 21, Figure 22, Figure 23, Figure 24, Figure 25 (12th through 15th centuries)

•  Emblems as a visual rhetoric of suggestion: Leon Battista Alberti’s impresa (15th century)

•  engraved print of Charles I, in the days prior to the regicide (1648, 1649)

•  spread on “The Soul of Man” from the first illustrated children’s primer, Comenius’ Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659)

•  spread on “The Heaven” from the first illustrated children’s primer, Comenius’ Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659)

•  Kircher’s look at “the hieroglyphic characters of the Chinese” (1667)

•  engraving showing regalia of the Order of the Garter (1672)

•  Kircher’s Musæum at the Collegio Romano (1678)

•  “map or Landskip cut in copper” of the Frost Fair (1684)

•  a 17th-century information brand: the emblem of the Athenian Society (1692)

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BAROQUE CAMERA TECHNOLOGIES

•  Hooke’s portable camera obscura (c.1660s)

•  Magic lantern (1728)

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FRONTISPIECE AND TITLE-PAGE ENGRAVINGS

•  Albert Durer Revived (1679)

•  vol. 12, no. 4 of the journal, Architectural Association Quarterly (1980)

•  Athenian Society’s The Young-Students-Library, frontispiece (1692)

•  Athenian Society’s The Young-Students-Library, letterpress title-page (1692)

•  Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624, 1628)

•  Cavendish’s Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)

•  Chambers’ Cyclopaedia, 1st edn. (1728)

•  Chambers’ Cyclopaedia, 8th edn. (1783–6)

•  Croll’s Basilica Chymica (1609)

•  Dorrington’s The Excellent Woman (1692)

•  Eikon Basilike (1648, 1649)

•  Eikon Basilike (1697)

•  Evelyn’s Sculptura, or, the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper, frontispiece (1662)

•  Evelyn’s Sculptura, or, the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper, title- page (1662)

•  The Floating Island, by the pseudonymous “Franck Careless” (1673)

•  Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (1632)

•  Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651)

•  Kircher’s Ars Magna Sciendi, Tomus I and Tomus II (1669)

•  vol. 1 of the journal, Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie (1888)

•  Sepibus’ Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu Musæum Celeberrimum (1678)

•  Settle’s The New Athenian Comedy (1693)

•  Tempest’s English edition of Ripa’s Iconologia (1709)

•  Tradescant’s Musæum Tradescantianum (London, 1656)

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HYDROGRAPHY

•  Tindall’s MS. chart of James and York rivers, in monochrome (1608)

•  Tindall’s MS. chart of James and York rivers, in color (1608)

•  MS. chart of Tidewater Virginia, aka the Zuñiga Chart (1608)

•  Topographical representation of a frozen river Thames in 1683–4

•  Sea-chart of the Marshall Islanders

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MAPS OF VIRGINIA

•  John White’s MS. map of Ralegh’s Virginia (c.1585)

•  Sketch-map of Ralegh’s Virginia, attributed to John White (c.1585)

•  De Bry’s engraving, “The Arrival of the Englishemen in Virginia” (1590)

•  Hariot-White-de Bry map of Ralegh’s Virginia (1590)

•  The Virginia Company MS. chart (1606–08)

•  Tindall’s MS. chart of James and York rivers, in monochrome (1608)

•  Tindall’s MS. chart of James and York rivers, in color (1608)

•  MS. chart of Virginia, aka the Zuñiga Chart (1608)

•  Deerskin map of Indian Virginia, embroidered on Powhatan’s mantle (c.1608)

•  MS. map of North America (aka the Velasco Map), with detail of the Chesapeake tidewater region, made for James I (1610)

•  MS. map, “A description of the land of Virginia” (1618)

•  John Ferrar’s MS. watercolor sketch map of colonial Virginia (c.1650)

•  John Ferrar’s map of colonial Virginia (1651, state 1)

•  Virginia Ferrar’s map of colonial Virginia (1651, state 2)

•  Virginia Ferrar’s map of colonial Virginia (1653, state 3)

•  “Velasco Map” of 1610/11, as given in Stokes (1916)

•  “Velasco Map” of 1610/11, as given in Fite & Freeman (1926)

•  “Velasco Map” of 1610/11, as given in Cumming, Skelton & Quinn (1971)

•  “Velasco Map” of 1610/11, as given in Cohen (1997)

•  “Velasco Map” of 1610/11, as given in Warhus (1997)

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MAPS (miscellaneous)

•  John White’s watercolor drawing of the Indian “towne of Pomeiock” (c.1585)

•  De Bry’s copper-plate engraving of “The Towne of Pomeeiooc” (1590)

•  Map of North America, showing Atlantic coast from Virginia to Newfoundland (1610)

•  Map of North America, showing Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay to Penobscot Bay (1614)

•  “map or Landskip cut in copper” of the Frost Fair (1684)

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MELANCHOLY

•  Introduction to 4-part “Portraits of Melancholy” Gallery exhibit

•  Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514)

•  Burton’s Anatomised Melancholy (1628)

•  Abraham Cowley as melancholic poetic swain (mid-17th century)

•  Margaret Cavendish’s “Studious She is” frontispiece (1655)

•  Melancholy (Melenconico, per la Terra), Fig. 59 from Tempest’s Iconologia: or, Moral Emblems, by Caesar Ripa (1709)

•  Pensiveness (Malinconia), Fig. 217 from Tempest’s Iconologia: or, Moral Emblems, by Caesar Ripa (1709)

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NATURE STUDIES

•  Dürer’s rabbit (1502)

•  Dürer’s The Large Piece of Turf (1503)

•  Hooke’s drawing of a blue fly (1663, 1665)

•  Hooke’s drawing of a grey drone-fly (1663, 1665)

•  Hooke’s drawing of a “long-legg’d Spider” (1663, 1665)

•  Maria Sibylla Merian’s watercolor of plant and insects (c.1696)

•  Maria Sibylla Merian’s watercolor of bird, with snake (c.1705)

•  arrangements by Frederick Ruysch of wax-injected anatomy specimens

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the PLURAL I

•  Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624, 1628)

•  Croll’s Basilica Chymica (1609)

•  Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651)

•  Nicéron’s La Perspective Curieuse (1638)

•  Prussian cherry-stone “with a hundred and twenty four Heads on the outside of it” (c.1687)
(NOTE:  discussion only; no image of this is included with Gallery exhibit.)

•  trompe l’oeil “Perspective of the late King of Denmark’s Family” (late 17th-century)
(NOTE:  discussion only; no image of this is included with Gallery exhibit.)

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PORTRAITS of “BLACKE MOORES”

•  Melancholy (Melenconico, per la Terra), “Of a brown Complexion” (1709)

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PORTRAITS (miscellaneous)

•  Isotta Nogarola (mid-15th century)

•  Albrecht Dürer’s self-portrait (1500)

•  Achille Bocchi (1574)

•  Elizabeth I, Queen of England (early 17th-century)

•  James I, King of England (early 17th-century)

•  James I and Anne of Denmark, King and Queen of England (early 17th-century)

•  Philip III, King of Spain (early 17th century)

•  Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (early 17th-century)

•  Sir Kenelm Digby (early 17th century)

•  Venetia Digby (early 17th century)

•  Robert Burton (1624, 1628)

•  Magdalena van de Passe, at age 30 (1630)

•  Nicolaus Copernicus (1632 and 1635)

•  Charles I, King of England (1636)

•  Princess Louise Hollandine of Bohemia, self-portrait (1641)

•  Johann Amos Comenius, at age 50 (1642)

•  Charles I, King of England, with his son, James, Duke of York (1647)

•  Charles I, King of England (1649)

•  Abraham Cowley (mid-17th century)

•  Margaret Cavendish, in frontispiece engraving to Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)

•  John Tradescant the Elder (1656)

•  John Tradescant the Younger (1656)

•  Johann Amos Comenius, with autograph (1658)

•  Anna Maria van Schurman, at age 52 (1659)

•  Margaret Cavendish, effigy on her burial stone in Westminster Abbey (c.1674)

•  Charles II, King of England (c.1675)

•  Charles II, King of England (c.1680)

•  Charles II, King of England (late 17th-century)

•  Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, and 4 of 4 (17th–18th century)

•  John Dunton (1705)

•  John Wilkins (1708)

•  Anna Maria van Schurman, with Rembrandt and Bakker (1729)

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PRINTING & THE GRAPHIC ARTS

•  the popular art manual, Albert Durer Revived (1616–20, 1652, 1660, 1666, 1679, 1685, 1686, 1698)

•  portrait of Magdalena van de Passe, “Sculptrix Celeberrima,” of the famous Utrecht family of engravers (1630)

•  Bosse’s etching of a 17th-century woman bookseller (1640)

•  Hollar’s etching of a 17th-century woman bookseller (1644)

•  self-portrait designed and engraved by a woman, the “stupendious” Anna Maria van Schurman (1659)

•  Evelyn’s art manual, Sculptura, or, the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper (1662)

•  allegorical personification of Sculptura, frontispiece to Evelyn’s History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper (1662)

•  Hooke’s portable camera obscura (c.1660s)

•  Mezzotint of Charles II, King of England (late 17th-century)

•  Walton’s and Seller’s pictorial record of printing on a frozen river Thames in 1683–4

•  emblem for Printing, Fig. 282 from Tempest’s Iconologia: or, Moral Emblems, by Caesar Ripa (1709)

•  P. W. M. Trap’s chromolithograph caricaturing the Dutch colonialist in Indonesia (1856)

•  portrait of the 17th-century engraver, A. Hertochs (1862)

•  portrait of the 17th-century engraver, William Marshall (1862)

•  portrait of the 17th-century draftsman and engraver, Robert White (1862)

•  series of lithographs from vol. 1 of Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie (1888): plate 1, plate 2, plate 3, plate 4, plate 5, plate 6, plate 6a, plate 7, plate 8, plate 9, plate 10, plate 11, plate 12, plate 13, plate 14, plate 15, plate 16, plate 18, plate 19, plate 21

•  connecting the arts of engraving (“to a hair’s breadth”) with the naturalists’ nanogaze

•  Chinese character for the verb, to listen (2002)

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PRUDENTIA ICONOGRAPHY

•  Bocchi’s Prudentia circunspecta (1st ed., 1555)

•  Comenius’ Prudentia (1658, 1659)

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SHE-PHILOSOPHER ICONOGRAPHY

•  Isotta Nogarola (mid-15th century)

•  Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514)

•  Elizabeth I, Queen of England (early 17th-century)

•  Bosse’s etching of a 17th-century female bookseller (1640)

•  Hollar’s etching of a 17th-century female bookseller (1644)

•  Margaret Cavendish, frontispiece engraving to Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)

•  Anna Maria van Schurman, at age 52 (1659)

•  Margaret Cavendish, effigy on her burial stone in Westminster Abbey (c.1674)

•  Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, and 4 of 4 (17th–18th century)

•  “The Excellent Woman” (1692)

•  Athenian Society emblem (1692)

•  Anna Maria van Schurman, with Rembrandt and Bakker (1729)

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^  Ornament from the 1st edn. (London, 1728) of the Cyclopædia, or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, by Ephraim Chambers.

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