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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Jack R. Levien papers, 1960/1999

0.8 Cubic Feet 2 document boxes
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University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

John Leech watercolor sketches, 1840

.04 Cubic Feet 1 legal folder

This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned Trio," and "The Moustache Movement."

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John Leech watercolor sketches, 1840 .04 Cubic Feet 1 legal folder

Leech, John, 1817-1864

This collection contains eight original pen, ink, and watercolor sketches with initials by the English caricaturist John Leech (1816-1864). Illustrated roughly around 1840, each illustration depicts his observations of daily British life of the lower and middle classes: on the street, in taverns, and at home. All contain captions related to the image, and some have titles in addition to their caption. These titles include "A Speculation," "On the Boulevards," "A Toothless Trio," "A Learned Trio," and "The Moustache Movement."

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie, 1760/1769

0.08 Cubic Feet 1 os folder

The Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie (circa 1769; 0.08 cubic foot) documents a rare original drawing for an illustration in the Encyclopédie by its most important and prolific draughtsman. This is the original for the workshop scene, the top section of "Hongroyeur," pl. III. In the engraving the plate has the legend, "Hongroyeur, l'Operation de mettre au Suif et Plan de l'Eture. (Tanner of Hungarian Leather, Operation of Tallowing and Plan of the Drying Room). Collection also contains three leaves of accompanying text and three leaves of printed images.

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Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie, 1760/1769 0.08 Cubic Feet 1 os folder

The Louis-Jacques Gossier drawing for the Encyclopédie (circa 1769; 0.08 cubic foot) documents a rare original drawing for an illustration in the Encyclopédie by its most important and prolific draughtsman. This is the original for the workshop scene, the top section of "Hongroyeur," pl. III. In the engraving the plate has the legend, "Hongroyeur, l'Operation de mettre au Suif et Plan de l'Eture. (Tanner of Hungarian Leather, Operation of Tallowing and Plan of the Drying Room). Collection also contains three leaves of accompanying text and three leaves of printed images.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Margaret Crockett album, 1905/1933

0.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box BW 16.

Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the locations St. Margaret's on Thames and Richmond. Pages include inscriptions, original drawings and watercolors (some appearing to imitate popular children's illustrations), pasted prints, a stencil leaf spray image. Most are signed by other girls; some appear to be by Crockett herself. Notable entries include "The Tired Woman's Epitaph," "The Angel Mother," a punning entry on a shipping label, three pages filled with pasted autograph signatures, the inscription of Princess Alice of Albany, a hand-made playbill for a production of Dick Whittington's Cat, and a handful of references to WWI and nautical themes, including a poem "Beware my motherland," about the risk of German ascendency, dated 1913. A letter to Mrs. Davey from M.S. Nagasaki of Japan (1914). Quotations from Shakespeare, Omar Khayyam, Longfellow, Macaulay, Austin Dobson, Emerson and others.

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Margaret Crockett album, 1905/1933 0.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box BW 16.

Margaret Crockett album, MSS 16320, 1905-1933, 0.03 cubic feet is described as a commercial album with gold-stamped leather batting-stuffed covers and multi-colored gilt-edged pages, covered with a dull green hand-made fabric cover embroidered "M.C." in red thread. Front free endpaper reads "Margaret Crockett / July 1911," though one pasted entry is dated 1905 and the latest entry is from 1933. The initials RNS (Royal Naval School), is found scattered throughout the volume, as are the locations St. Margaret's on Thames and Richmond. Pages include inscriptions, original drawings and watercolors (some appearing to imitate popular children's illustrations), pasted prints, a stencil leaf spray image. Most are signed by other girls; some appear to be by Crockett herself. Notable entries include "The Tired Woman's Epitaph," "The Angel Mother," a punning entry on a shipping label, three pages filled with pasted autograph signatures, the inscription of Princess Alice of Albany, a hand-made playbill for a production of Dick Whittington's Cat, and a handful of references to WWI and nautical themes, including a poem "Beware my motherland," about the risk of German ascendency, dated 1913. A letter to Mrs. Davey from M.S. Nagasaki of Japan (1914). Quotations from Shakespeare, Omar Khayyam, Longfellow, Macaulay, Austin Dobson, Emerson and others.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Materials related to UVA mass shooting, 2022

0.08 Cubic Feet One small oversize folder; one letter size folder. .0186 Gigabytes 1 PDF

This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to share their full name via social media so that the piece could be archived properly, with credit given appropriately. The portrait appears on Ryan's social media accounts on the same date.

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Materials related to UVA mass shooting, 2022 0.08 Cubic Feet One small oversize folder; one letter size folder. .0186 Gigabytes 1 PDF

University of Virginia. Office of the President

This collection features a colored pencil portrait of Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry, and Devin Chandler, the University of Virginia students and football members killed in a mass shooting on November 13, 2022, at the University of Virginia. After the tragedy, President and Mrs. Ryan opened their home for students to gather. Isabelle Martins, a Univeristy of Virginia architecture student, brought this drawing as a gift to Carr's Hill. The following week, President Ryan asked for the artist to share their full name via social media so that the piece could be archived properly, with credit given appropriately. The portrait appears on Ryan's social media accounts on the same date.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

M. Gillett botanical plates, 1838

.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter folder

This collection contains a single-bound manuscript produced by an English student of botany, dated 1838 with the name and date "M.Gillet" inscribed on the front endpaper with "M. Gillet" stenciled with a floral wreath border in the front free endpaper. The book contains watercolor, pencil, and ink illustrations of plants. The manuscript opens with tissue-guarded images of common English plants, including a key to leaves ("roundish," "linear," "kidney-shaped," "trowel-shaped"). The text appears to be the student's own synthesis of botanical terms and concepts, rather than the transcription of a published work. The fourteen numbered ink plates throughout the text are as follows: "Elementary organs," "Compound organs," "Linnaean classes," "Linnaean orders," and "A table of the primary divisions of the natural order."

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M. Gillett botanical plates, 1838 .03 Cubic Feet 1 letter folder

This collection contains a single-bound manuscript produced by an English student of botany, dated 1838 with the name and date "M.Gillet" inscribed on the front endpaper with "M. Gillet" stenciled with a floral wreath border in the front free endpaper. The book contains watercolor, pencil, and ink illustrations of plants. The manuscript opens with tissue-guarded images of common English plants, including a key to leaves ("roundish," "linear," "kidney-shaped," "trowel-shaped"). The text appears to be the student's own synthesis of botanical terms and concepts, rather than the transcription of a published work. The fourteen numbered ink plates throughout the text are as follows: "Elementary organs," "Compound organs," "Linnaean classes," "Linnaean orders," and "A table of the primary divisions of the natural order."

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978

4.09 Cubic Feet 5 legal document boxes, 2 letter document boxes, 2 oversize folders (2 x 3 feet and 14 x 18 inches), and 2 oversized boxes.

This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.

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Petra Vogt papers, 1966/1978 4.09 Cubic Feet 5 legal document boxes, 2 letter document boxes, 2 oversize folders (2 x 3 feet and 14 x 18 inches), and 2 oversized boxes.

Vogt, Petra

This collection contains journals, artworks, correspondence, and photographs that illuminate the life and work of Petra Vogt, a poet, actress, artist, and model, known for her involvement with the Living Theatre, Ira Cohen, and the Bardo Matrix Press during the 1960s and 1970s. Of particular interest are thirty-four journals, chiefly by Petra Vogt, with poetry, prose works, diary entries, and intricate rapidograph drawings along with collage, paintings, and other artworks within; about 150 artworks by Vogt, as well as handmade books of Ira Cohen's photographs and collage, 850 photographs by Ira Cohen, including those from his Mylar photography series and 60 pieces of correspondence and post cards addressed to Vogt and Cohen.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

The Illustrated Alphabet, 1875

0.25 Cubic Feet One legal-sized half-width document box

This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front panel of an envelope that stored the contents before binding. Then follows three pen and ink title pages with letters in the Victorian grotesque tradition, eight manuscript leaves with limericks for each letter, twenty-six calligraphic leaves of alphabet limericks in pencil and pen, twelve watercolors, and forty-six total drawings. The bulk of the manuscript is the drawings and watercolors that illustrate the alphabet, some referencing the subject of the limericks and others alternative subjects. These are humorous and often satirical images. These include critiques of religious figures like cardinals and the Pope and more everyday situations and people like a quack, a statesman, a Yankee, an older man entranced by a younger woman, and an angry wife, among other characters. Devils and demons are frequent figures in the illustrations. A number of the drawings that appear here also appear in a privately printed book by the same title. Johnston made a few copies of this book for his friends and family.

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The Illustrated Alphabet, 1875 0.25 Cubic Feet One legal-sized half-width document box

James Arsenault and Co.

This collection contains the trial drawings for an illustrated alphabet book by the Reverend George Liddell Johnston. The book, bound in crushed red morocco by C. & C. McLeish sometime in the early twentieth century, contains the inlaid drawings and manuscript pages. The book begins with two calligraphic frontispieces, one titled "The Envelope" with an angel holding a brush and canvas. This image was likely the front panel of an envelope that stored the contents before binding. Then follows three pen and ink title pages with letters in the Victorian grotesque tradition, eight manuscript leaves with limericks for each letter, twenty-six calligraphic leaves of alphabet limericks in pencil and pen, twelve watercolors, and forty-six total drawings. The bulk of the manuscript is the drawings and watercolors that illustrate the alphabet, some referencing the subject of the limericks and others alternative subjects. These are humorous and often satirical images. These include critiques of religious figures like cardinals and the Pope and more everyday situations and people like a quack, a statesman, a Yankee, an older man entranced by a younger woman, and an angry wife, among other characters. Devils and demons are frequent figures in the illustrations. A number of the drawings that appear here also appear in a privately printed book by the same title. Johnston made a few copies of this book for his friends and family.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

University of Virginia Medical Illustrations collection, 1760/1969, bulk 0

7 boxes (7 containers)

The collection comprises mostly of anatomical illustrations of humans and animals by professional medical illustrators and medical practioners, but there is a good number of caricatures. Many of the images depict 20th century surgical prodedures; there are also physiological illustrations included in the collection. Most items are drawn in pencil on illustration paper with cardboard backing. In addition, there are some drawings in notepads and on tracing paper.

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University of Virginia Medical Illustrations collection, 1760/1969, bulk 0 7 boxes (7 containers)

Bernie, Frederick, fl. 1792

The collection comprises mostly of anatomical illustrations of humans and animals by professional medical illustrators and medical practioners, but there is a good number of caricatures. Many of the images depict 20th century surgical prodedures; there are also physiological illustrations included in the collection. Most items are drawn in pencil on illustration paper with cardboard backing. In addition, there are some drawings in notepads and on tracing paper.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Warren Chappell papers, 1929/2000

3 Cubic Feet 6 document boxes and 4 oversize folders

These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Clark Art Institute at Williamstown, Massachusettes; and correspondence with the staff at the University of Virginia. There are also personal and professional photographs and negatives; drawings and cartoons, and assorted ephemera and publications.

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Warren Chappell papers, 1929/2000 3 Cubic Feet 6 document boxes and 4 oversize folders

Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991

These additions of MSS 10204 Warren Chappell papers contain letters, drawings, photographs, ephemera, and publications documenting the life and work of Warren Chappell from roughly 1929 to 2000. Janet Anderson, Shelah Kane Scott, and Calvin Otto were recipients and owners of the collections. The bulk of the collection is correspondence with colleagues, family, and friends including his wife Lydia Chappell. There is significant amounts of correspondence with Rafael Fernandez, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Clark Art Institute at Williamstown, Massachusettes; and correspondence with the staff at the University of Virginia. There are also personal and professional photographs and negatives; drawings and cartoons, and assorted ephemera and publications.

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