CDR-1237: SR Set: Literary Images

Designed to enhance disciplines such as English and French literature, this set offers literary images ranging from the works of Ovid to Cocteau or from Sappho to Madame de Sévigné. Here are literary figures, their colleagues and milieu, as well as illustrations from their works. Images range from Greek busts, Roman mosaics, and medieval manuscripts, to broadsheets, engravings, and caricatures. In addition, this remarkable mix is liberally sprinkled with old favorite characters like Pantagruel, Mr. Fezziwig, and Sancho Panza. updated 8/2009

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123 images from Saskia, Ltd. 34 images from Hartill Art Associates 13 images from Archivision, Inc. 584 images from Bridgeman Art Library 4 images from Inter-American Institute/Dr. James Bartholomay Kiracofe 1 images from Canyonlights Photography 29 images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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XIR-232822
Title: Lyrical Poetry
Creator(s): Lambert-Sigisbert Adam
Date: 1752
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-168120
Title: Alphonse de Lamartine and Elvire on Lake at Bourget
Creator(s): Victor Adam
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Met-05809
Title: Vita et Fabulae; [Aesopus Moralitus]
Creator(s): Aesop
Date: February 13, 1485
Description: Folio 72v: Fable of the ass who wanted to frolic like a dog
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Met-05807
Title: Vita et Fabulae; [Aesopus Moralitus]
Creator(s): Aesop
Date: February 13, 1485
Description: Folio 9v: Aesop carries the bread box
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Met-05806
Title: Vita et Fabulae; [Aesopus Moralitus]
Creator(s): Aesop
Date: February 13, 1485
Description: Folio 4v: Aesop, falsely accused of eating his master's figs, proves his innocence
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Met-05808
Title: Vita et Fabulae; [Aesopus Moralitus]
Creator(s): Aesop
Date: February 13, 1485
Description: Folio 35v: Aesop gives precepts to his adopted son who, overcome with guilt, throws himself from a cliff
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
Met-05810
Title: Vita et Fabulae; [Aesopus Moralitus]
Creator(s): Aesop
Date: February 13, 1485
Description: Folio 112: Fable of the fly and the ant
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
XJL-180980
Title: Departure of Aeneas from Carthage
Creator(s): Agüero, Benito Manuel de
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Bal-52120
Title: Lord Byron Reposing in the House of a Fisherman Having Swum the Hellespont
Creator(s): William Allan
Date: 1831
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-028495
Title: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-1374)
Creator(s): Andrea del Castagno
Date: ca. 1450
Description: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) (1304-1374)
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-196932
Title: Self Portrait, 17th December 1946
Creator(s): Artaud, Antonin
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XZL-150402
Title: Fanny Austen-Knight
Creator(s): Cassandra Austen
Description: Niece of Jane Austen.
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XND-070098
Title: Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Creator(s): James Bacon
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-154174
Title: Page from one of Balzac's works with handwritten corrections
Creator(s): Honore de Balzac
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-172445
Title: Illustration for 'Dog and Ox', from Aesop's Fables
Creator(s): Francis Barlow
Date: 1666
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Met-4378
Title: The Cock and the Precious Stone, from Aesop's Fables
Creator(s): Francis Barlow
James Kirk
Aesop
Date: ca. 1760
Description: Total
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
XIR-172444
Title: Illustration from Introduction to Aesop's Fables
Creator(s): Francis Barlow
Date: 1666
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mif-0005
Title: Study of Aeneas and Anchises Fleeing Troy
Creator(s): Federico Barocci
Date: ca. 1598
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mif-0004
Title: Aeneas' Flight from Troy
Creator(s): Federico Barocci
Date: 1598
Description: Women and burning city
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mif-0003
Title: Aeneas' Flight from Troy
Creator(s): Federico Barocci
Date: 1598
Description: Aeneas, Anchises, Ascanius
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mif-0002
Title: Aeneas' Flight from Troy
Creator(s): Federico Barocci
Date: 1598
Description: Total
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Met-04638
Title: Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry
Creator(s): Edward Sheffield Bartholomew
Date: 1851
Description: Total
Vendor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 
XIR-200360
Title: Jeanne Duval
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Date: 1865
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200361
Title: La Fanfarlo
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200362
Title: Palestrina in a Black Suit
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200372
Title: Letter to Richard Wagner, 17th February 1860
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200363
Title: Woman for Asselineau
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200368
Title: 'Recueillement', signed sonnet
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Date: 1861
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200371
Title: Letter to Richard Wagner, 17th February 1860
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200370
Title: Letter to Richard Wagner, 17th February 1860
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200359
Title: Portrait of Jeanne Duval with notes by Auguste Poulet-Malassis (1825-78)
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Date: 1858-60
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-200369
Title: Letter to Richard Wagner, 17th February 1860
Creator(s): Charles Baudelaire
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-154605
Title: Portrait of Charles Dickens (1812-70)
Creator(s): Charles Baugniet
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-213070
Title: Illustration from 'From Earth to Moon' by Jules Verne (1828-1905) Paris, Hetzel
Creator(s): Émile-Antoine Bayard
Date: published in 1865
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-224611
Title: Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) engraved by Massol (d.1831)
Creator(s): Theophile Behaeghel
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-033192
Title: Portrait of Alexandre Dumas pere
Creator(s): Charles-Alphonse-Paul Bellay
Date: 1878
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-154170
Title: Ulysses and the Sirens
Creator(s): Belly, Leon Adolphe Auguste
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
XIR-157807
Title: Dumas, Hugo et Balzac seeking their admission to French Academy, illustration from 'La Mode', 23rd November 1839
Creator(s): Benjamin Roubaud
Description: Total
Vendor: Bridgeman Art Library
 
Mid-0008a
Title: Aeneas and Anchises
Creator(s): Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Date: 1620
Description: Total from front right
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.
 
Mid-0009
Title: Aeneas and Anchises
Creator(s): Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Date: 1620
Description: detail: head of Aeneas
Vendor: Saskia, Ltd.