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[An etched glass window, 1]

Description: Scan of a negative, of an etched glass window. The framing around the window is silhouetted as light from outside the window illuminates its imagery. The etchings on the central windowpane illustrate decorative feathers and vase-like forms that lead up to a plate piled with fruits, vegetables, and leaves, Similar decorative flourishes on either side of this drawing lead up to an archway. The entire ensemble is framed by a twisting geometric frame laden with leaves and small flowers at its top. … more
Date: [1976..1978]
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[An etched glass window on a front door, 2]

Description: Scan of a negative, of an etched glass window on a front door. The door the window is set into is painted white and surrounded by a dark wooden frame. The etchings on the central section of the door's window illustrate decorative feathers and vase-like forms that lead up to a plate piled with fruits, vegetables, and leaves, Similar decorative flourishes on either side of this drawing lead up to an archway. The entire ensemble is framed by a twisting geometric frame laden with leaves and small f… more
Date: [1976..1978]
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[An etched glass window on a front door, 1]

Description: Scan of a negative, of an etched glass window on a front door. The door the window is set into is painted white and surrounded by a dark wooden frame. Carved into the door below the window is a line with repeating dots carved above and below it. The etchings on the central section of the door's window illustrate decorative feathers and vase-like forms that lead up to a plate piled with fruits, vegetables, and leaves, Similar decorative flourishes on either side of this drawing lead up to an arc… more
Date: [1976..1978]
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[[An etched glass window on a front door, 3]

Description: Scan of a negative, of an etched glass window on a front door. The door the window is set into is painted white and surrounded by a dark wooden frame. The etchings on the central section of the door's window illustrate decorative feathers and vase-like forms that lead up to a plate piled with fruits, vegetables, and leaves, Similar decorative flourishes on either side of this drawing lead up to an archway. The entire ensemble is framed by a twisting geometric frame laden with leaves and small f… more
Date: [1976..1978]
Creator: Azadian, Dee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[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]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Beggars Opera" etching and engraving]

Description: Etching and engraving print of an lively outdoor opera with a small pit orchestra and performers in animals masks. The print, "The Beggars Opera", published in 1728 was printed for John Bonles and The Black Horse in Cornhill.
Date: 1728
Creator: Hogarth, William; Blake, William & Bonles, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching of a man with coins]

Description: Etching "Portrait of Man", designed Guercino Da Cento and printed by Austrian printmaker Adam Bartsch, in 1782. The print shows a man illustrated with loose and energetic lines standing and pointing at coins resting on a table.
Date: 1782
Creator: Da Cento, Guercino & Bartsch, Adam
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Adam & Eve frontispiece etching]

Description: Etching print included as the frontispiece of a unknown volume printed in 1780. The plate includes a classic biblical image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden at the moment the snake offers the fruit to Eve. The image includes excellent details of various animals scattered around the pint such as a frog, various insects, birds and a partially hidden cow laying in the tree line.
Date: 1780~
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving print "Porcie" from the portfolio "Galerie des Femmes fortes"]

Description: Etching and engraving of the historical female figure "Porcie" wearing roman style robes published in 1647 as part of the series "Galerie des Femmes fortes". The image is paired with descriptive French text that reads "Porcie at the edge of the burning coals, to go after her husband: and by the boldness and novelty of her death, equal to the reputation of Cato and the glory of Brutus."
Date: 1647
Creator: Rousselet, Gilles; Bosse, Abraham; Mariette, Pierre & Vignon, Claude
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving of the burial shrine of Odeschalco]

Description: Etching and engraving of the Italian noble family Odeschalcos burial shrine printed circa 1800. The print is attributed to designer Leopoldo Buzi and printmaker Giovannia Acquaroni. The print show a line etching of the shrine with Latin text on its front at the top of a stone platform with stairs flanked by two statues of Roman muses. The image is paired with descriptive Italian text below the printed image.
Date: 1800
Creator: Buzi, Leopoldo & Acquaroni, Giovannia
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["A Western Lake by Sunset"]

Description: Steel engraving on a book leaf titled "A Western Lake by Sunset" depicting a vast landscape surrounding a distant lake and small rivers. On the verso side of the leaf are penciled notes about its missing companion page, page numbers and the collectors' information.
Date: 1851
Creator: Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886 & Smillie, James, 1807-1885
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Etching and engraving "David Tenier's House"]

Description: Etching and engraving of "David Tenier's House" published on August 15, 1757. The design was attribute to Dutch miniaturist David Eniers the Younger (1610-1690) and was printed by English printmaker Thomas Major (1720-1799). The image shows a large manor house on the right edge of a river bank with a bridge arching over the river. A group of three fisherman are gathered on the shore in the foreground communicating the scale of the rest of the scene to the viewer.
Date: August 15, 1757
Creator: Major, Thomas & Eniers the Younger, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Intaglio print from a type printed book of a city scape "Citta Di Varsavia"]

Description: Etching and engraving print on page 332 of an unknown book printed in Italian showing the city of Warsaw Poland from the east overlooking the Vistula river. The image shows what is now "Warsaw Old Town" with the tall steepled building being the Archcathedral of St John's.
Date: [1500..1780]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Spence Graffiti, 2007]

Description: Photograph of names and phrases etched into a slab of concrete. The names Mickey, Billy, and Michael are legible in the bottom half of the concrete slab. [2007, Dallas, TX]
Date: 2007
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["The Stars" mezzotint engraving]

Description: Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.
Date: [1797..1856]
Creator: Sartain, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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