A STATE OF PRINTMAKING
Please sign-up to visit the special collections in Joyner Library by e-mail eganm@ecu.edu
Thursday March 26, 2:15-3:30pm
Friday March 27, 2-3:15pm*
Visit will include:
1. A Brief and true report of the New Found Land of Virginia.
Thomas Harriot and Theodore de Bry
2. Original etchings of Louis Orr of North Carolina landmarks, printed in 1918
3. Joseph Albers, The Interaction of Color
4. "Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum", von Constantin von Ettingshausen und Alois Pokorny.
Published in 1855. Prints made by pressing botanical specimens into lead plates.
5. Early engraved maps of North Carolina
6. Giovanni Gallucci’s Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s “Four Books on Human Proportions” from 1591, with full woodcut illustrations copied from Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion by Dürer, originally published posthumously in German in 1528.
7. à la poupée illustrations. “American medical botany” by Jacob Bigelow from 1817 - prints that used multiple colors of ink used on the same print run.
*will include special guest Jessica White and a Crankie