Subseries I.IV: Portraits and Engravings of People/Historical Figures, , 1700 - 1956
Sub-Series
Dates
- 1700 - 1956
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
From the Collection: 17 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Subseries I.IV: Portraits and Engravings of People/Historical Figures, 1700-1956
Subseries I.IV: Portraits and Engravings of People/Historical Figures, 1700-1956, is arranged in alphabetical order by artist’s last name or the last name of the historical figure depicted within the art and contains a variety of prints including steel, line, and wood engravings, portraits, prints, mezzotints, etchings, illustrations, lithographs, and paintings of people and figures across a wide variety of styles and subject matter. This series excludes artwork of John Wilkes.
Specific historical figures depicted in this subseries of artwork include Lydia Atherton, Thomas Ferrier Atherton, Thomas Henry Atherton, Sarah Atherton Henry, Melanie Parker, Isaac Barre, James Butler, John Campbell, Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, King Edward IV, John Egerton, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Joseph Hume, William Murray, Dr. John Moore, William Penn, Jean Baptiste Santeul, Nicolas Tindal, François-Marie Arouet, and James Wolfe. Specific artists that are included in this subseries are Thomas Lewis Atkinson, Francesco Bartolozzi, Karl Bodmer, William Bromley, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Francis Grant, Henry Cousins, Charles d’Agar, Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, William Evans, John Faber Jr., Henry Farrer, William Thomas Fry, Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg, Henry Bryan Hall, John Hall, William Hamilton, Thomas Hovenden, Henry Inman, George Keating, Edward Winsor Kemble, George Knapton, Sir Godfrey Kneller, Thomas Lawrence, Jean-Étienne Liotard, William Miller, Jean Morin, Bernard Picart, Sir Henry Raeburn, Friedrich Randel, Joshua Reynolds, John Rogers, John Sartan, Georg Johann Seitz, John Smith, James Stratford, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Irving Ramsey Wiles, and Alessandro Zaffonato.
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu