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| Genre/Form: | Illustrations Oil paintings (visual works) Pictorial works |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | William Blake; Charlemagne, Emperor; Simon de Colines; Benjamin Franklin; George P Gordon; Frederic W Goudy; Johann Gutenberg; Frederic Eugene Ives; Nicolas Jenson; Friedrich Koenig; Toblbert Lanston; Aldo Manuzio; Ottmar Mergenthaler; William Morris; Ira Rubel; Alois Senefelder; William Shakespeare; Charles Stanhope Stanhope, Earl; Geoffroy Tory; John Peter Zenger |
| Material Type: | Original artwork |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas M Parrish; George I Parrish; Robert Alan Thom; Kimberly-Clark Corporation |
| OCLC Number: | 654456065 |
| Notes: | Custom-designed frames created for the paintings by House of Heydenryk, New York. |
| Description: | 24 paintings on Masonite : oil ; 91.44 x 121.92 cm (36 x 48 in.) and smaller. |
Abstract:
Specific events, people, and technologies are portrayed in a series of paintings meant to be viewed in a chronological order, and titled: Papyrus and Pictography (950-685 B.C.); the Roman Alphabet (506 B.C.); Charlemagne and the Monastic Scribes (800 A.D.); Chinese Block Printing (868 A.D.); Papermaking at Fabriano, Italy (1293); Johann Gutenberg and Movable Type (1455); Nicholas Jenson (1470); Aldus Manutius (1495); Geofroy Tory and Simon de Colines (1525); William Shakespeare's First Folio (1623); John Peter Zenger (1735); Benjamin Franklin (1758); Alois Senefelder and Lithography (1796); William Blake (1800); Fourdrinier and the Papermaking Machine (1803); Friederich Koenig and the Cylindrical Press (1814); Lord Stanhope and Stereotyping (1804); George P. Gordon and the Platen Press (1851); Frederic E. Ives and the Half-tone Process (1878); Ottmar Mergenthaler and the Linotype (1866); William Morris (1890); Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype (1894); Ira Rubel and the Offset Press (1905); and Frederic W. Goudy (1905).
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- Blake, William, -- 1757-1827 -- Pictorial works.
- Charlemagne, -- Emperor, -- 742-814 -- Pictorial works.
- Colines, Simon de, -- d. 1546 -- Pictorial works.
- Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Pictorial works.
- Gordon, George P. -- Pictorial works.
- Goudy, Frederic W. -- (Frederic William), -- 1865-1947 -- Pictorial works.
- Gutenberg, Johann, -- 1397?-1468 -- Pictorial works.
- Ives, Frederic Eugene, -- 1856-1937 -- Pictorial works.
- Jenson, Nicolas, -- ca. 1420-1480 -- Pictorial works.
- Koenig, Friedrich, -- 1774-1833 -- Pictorial works.
- Lanston, Toblbert, -- 1844-1914 -- Pictorial works.
- Manuzio, Aldo, -- 1449 or 50-1515 -- Pictorial works.
- Mergenthaler, Ottmar, -- 1854-1899 -- Pictorial works.
- Morris, William, -- 1834-1896 -- Pictorial works.
- Rubel, Ira -- Pictorial works.
- Senefelder, Alois, -- 1771-1834 -- Pictorial works.
- Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Pictorial works.
- Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, -- Earl, -- 1753-1816 -- Pictorial works.
- Tory, Geoffroy, -- ca. 1480-ca. 1533 -- Pictorial works.
- Zenger, John Peter, -- 1697-1746 -- Pictorial works.
- Graphic arts -- History.
- Printing -- History.
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
