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Planisfero del mondo nuovo.

Description: Map shows known geography and place names in the Western Hemisphere. Includes "Tavola di clavio nella sfera del sacrobosco." Scale varies.
Date: 1695
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Man swinging an axe at a snake while his wife jumps back in surprise]

Description: Etching and engraving print of a man swinging an axe at a snake. The man appears to be protecting his wife and child who sit in front of a large open hearth. The wife reacts in surprise and fear in the midst of cooking dinner with the child in her lap. This print has a unique ghost image on its verso of a woman dressed in French style fashion with a large wig embellished with feathers.
Date: [1695..1800]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him."]

Description: Etching and engraving print from page 216 of Charles Grignion I's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker"; "Burdock refiting the surgeon's attempt to trepan him.". The print includes an oval framing the scene with characteristic flourishes of ivy vines surrounding a plaque with the title information. The main figure in the image appears standing on his bed angrily confronting a flustered doctor to a room of terrified onlookers. The print was part of a copy of the picaresque novel "The Expedition of… more
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Grignion, Charles the Elder
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etcing and engraving "Puer parvulus minabiteos"]

Description: French religious etching and engraving titled "Puer Parvulus Minabiteos" (The Boy Threatened Them), which depictsa woman and three children in a field with a herd of wolfs, lions, and tigers among sheep and cattle. The main child, the baby Jesus, appears with a shepherds crook leading the flock.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 & Lacroix, S. F. (Silvestre François), 1765-1843
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Hispaniola soo als het: door Kolumbus Ontdekt, en by de Kastilianen bevolkt is.

Description: Map shows settleements on the island of Hispaniola; the coast of New Spain and "Florida" [southeastern north american continent] along the Gulf of Mexico, and the islands in the Caribbean area. Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by isolines. Scale not given.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Tlandschap Cumana tussen Golfo de Venezuela en Rio de Paria Gelegen.

Description: Map shows settlements and missions in Venezuela; settlements and missions along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan peninsula, Cuba, and Jamaica. Includes illustrations of shipwreck [expedition by Franciscus de Garay to explore the Gulf in 1519]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not shown.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
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Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

'T Amerikaans Gewest van Florida Door Ferdinand De Soto Nader Ontdekt en groot deels Bemagtigd : met Privilegie.

Description: Map shows southeastern portion of the North American continent as "Florida," the "Lucaye Ins." off the coast on "Florida" map; on second map, Persia, the Red Sea, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt and Ethiopia. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1695..1715]
Creator: Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Satirical print of English political figure Hugh Peters c.1600]

Description: Satirical Print of English preacher, political advisor and soldier who supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. The engraving, circa. 1600, shows Hugh Peters with a devil on his back with each foot on a stack of books that correspond to church and state while he holds the ties to bags of money that are labeled with "Revenue", "Plunder", "Thimbles" and "Benefices". Symbols of the monarchy and the church appear on the floor by his feet.
Date: [1695..1800]
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two Mourners and Hope at Washingtons Grave]

Description: Engraving by Boston printmaker Thomas Clarke showing a man and woman weeping into handkerchiefs in front of the grave of George Washington. Washington's monument includes his face engraved below a cherubim and the epitaph "There is Reft in Heaven" and is set at the foot of a weeping willow. The two figures are being consoled by a figure of Hope, who stands by an anchor and points to heaven.
Date: [1695..1800]
Creator: Clark, Thomas
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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