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Art History: Design History
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
01/25/2012

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Cards

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Early pictographic tablet

Sumerian (c. 3100 BCE)

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Blau monument

Sumerian (c. 3100 BCE)

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Detail from the Book of the Dead of Tuthmosis III

on papyrus

New Kingdom Egypt (c. 1450 BCE)

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Ras Shamra script

example of a North Semitic alphabet (c. 1500 BCE)

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The Persians

papyrus manuscript

with Greek alphabet (4th century BCE)

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Capitalis quadrata (square capitals)

Roman script (c. 400 CE)

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Capitalis rustica (rustic capitals)

Roman script (c. 400 CE)

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Inscription from four-handled vessel

bronze script (chin-when)

Chinese (11th century BCE)

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Chen-shu (regular script)

Chinese

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The Diamond Sutra

with woodcut illustration

Chinese (c. 868 CE)

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Playing cards

woodblock printing

Chinese (n.d.)

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Death of Laocoon

from the Vatican Vergil

Classical style (early 5th century CE)

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Symbol of Matthew

from the Book of Durrow

Celtic style (680 CE)

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Opening page from Gospel of St. Mark

Book of Durrow

Celtic style (680 CE)

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Carpet page with interface

from the Lindisfarne Gospels

Celtic style (c. 698 CE)

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Text page with ornamental initials

Book of Kells

Celtic style (c. 794-806 CE)

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Caroline miniscules

Carolingian style (9th century CE)

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

from the Beatus of Fernando and Sancha

Spanish Medieval style (1047 CE)

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The multitude worshipping God

from the Douce Apocalypse

Gothic style (1265)

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Mustafa al-Khalil

frontispiece from a Qu'ran

Islamic (1739)

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Limbourg Brothers

January page from Les tres riches heures de duc de Berry

Early Renaissance (1413-16 CE)

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Jack of Diamonds

playing card

woodblock print (c. 1400)

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St. Christopher

devotional image

woodblock print (1423)

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Pages from an ars morendi

woodblock print

block book (1466)

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Gutenberg

Letter of Indulgence

movable type (c. 1454)

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Gutenberg

pages from the Gutenberg Bible

movable type (1450-55)

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Fust and Schoeffler

colophon and trademark from Psalter in Latin

movable type (1457)

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Ex libris (bookplate) design

for Johannes Knabensberg

woodcut (c. 1450s)

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Pfister

woodblock illustration

from second edition of Der Ackerman aus Bohmen (c. 1463)

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Reuwich

woodblock illustration

from Peregrinationes in Montem Syon (1486)

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Pages from Teuerdank

designed by Rockner

printed by Schoensperger (1517)

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Durer

broadside

woodcut illustration (1515)

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Cranach the Younger

broadside commemmorating Martin Luther

woodcut illustration (1551)

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Caxton

printer's trademark

woodcut (after 1477)

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Jenson (attrib.)

mark for the Society of Venetian Printers

Italian Renaissance (1481)

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Manutius

typographic page from Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Italian Renaissance (1499)

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Manutius

page from Opera

Italian Renaissance (1501)

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Tory

pot casse emblem

French Renaissance (1524)

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Estienne

page from Illustrissimae Galliaru Reginae Helianorae

French Renaissance (1531)

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Oporinus

page from De Humani Corporis Fabrica

from Basel (1543)

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Granjon

title page from Le premier livre des narrations fabuleuses

from Lyons (1558)

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Caslon

specimens of Caslon roman and italic

from London (1734)

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Playfair

diagram from Commercial and Political Atlas

handcolored engraving (British, 1786)

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Blake

title page from Songs of Innocence

hand-colored etching (British, 1789)

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Blake

The Tyger from Songs of Experience

hand-colored etching (British, 1794)

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Thorne

fat-face types (British, 1821)

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Thorne

Egyptian type designs (British, 1821)

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Caslon IV

two-line English Egyptian (British, 1816)

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Figgins

two-line Great Primer Sans-serif (British, 1832) 

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Handbill for an excursion train (American, 1876)
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Niepce

Cardinal Georges D'Amboise

photoetching (French, c. 1827)

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Talbot

pages from The Pencil of Nature

with photographic illustrations (French, 1844)

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Bufford's Sons

Swedish Song Quartett poster

chromolithography (American, 1867)

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Frizzall (artist) and Bufford's Sons (printers)

poster for Cleveland and Hendricks presidential campaign

chromolithography  (American, 1884)

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Forst

Averell & Co.

poster for the Hoe printing press

chromolithography (American, 1870)

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Food and tobacco products

package designs

chromolithography on tin (19th century)

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Morse

Five Celebrated Clowns

multicolor woodcut poster (American, 1856)

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Philipon

Les Poires (The Pears)

lithograph (French, 1831)

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Daumier

Gargantua

lithograph (French, 1831)

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Daumier

Waitress, I Prefer the Vegetables Clean-Shaven

lithograph (French, 1840)

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Guerard

Puppet Theatre, Champs-Elysees

chromolithograph (French, 1856)

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Tietze

poster for Harper's Magazine

woodcut (American, 1883)

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Homer

The Army of the Potomac - Sharpshooter on Picket Duty

wood engraving (American, 1862)

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Nast

political cartoon for Harper's Weekly

woodcut (American, 1871)

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Cover

Harper's Bazar

woodcut (American, 1868) 

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Jones

color plates from The Grammar of Ornament

Victorian era (British, 1856)

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Trademark

Moss Engraving Company

Victorian style (1872)

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Crane

pages from Absurd A.B.C.

toy book (British, 1874)

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Caldecott

illustration

from Hey Diddle Diddle

(British, c. 1880)

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