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Waves on Beach and Cliffs

7.9 x 14.9 cm (3 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

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Waves on Beach with Cumulus Clouds

8.5 x 14.2 cm (3 3/8 x 5 9/16 in.), irregular

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Waves on Rocks in front of Distant Hill with Windmill

8.8 x 15.5 cm (3 7/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

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Way Uptown

Audubon Avenue and 193rd Street, New York City. View from Columbia Heights, looking across Harlem. A man, woman, and three children in the foreground.

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Wayside Shrine near Abtenau, Austria

2 pp

Landscape sketch showing a view of a wayside shrine in the mountainous landscape between the towns of Golling and Abtenau in Austria. Viewed obliquely in the immediate foreground at right, the shrine is topped with a rounded cross and decorated with a crossed-key motif. In the background at left, a rugged, rocky ridge is shown through a break in nearby, wooded mountainsides. The slope at right is

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ephemera

Weather Frognosticator

Top; left, profile of frog sitting on a ladder in a bottle half-way filled with water, bottle labeled, Weather Frognostigator. Center right, profile of a bear wearing glasses, hat, and suit, facing left. Right, profile of bird with outstretched neck wrapping around bottle. Upper right, waning crescent smiling and looking down at bottle. Upper right, shinning sun, smiling down at frog in bottle. Cl

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Weave Pattern

A broad weaved pattern with dogs, and jagged edges form this geometric motif. The edges of the weave suggest an ikat style design.

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Weaver's book

35 pp

Manuscript book of weaving designs and instructions. Thirty-one sheets of paper, some of which have been partly cut out, containing registers of births, etc., in the Jackson family, account of sea battle in 1739, recipes for bite of mad dog and for piles, epitaphs, poems. Written in several hands. First weaving plan is dated 1689, last is 1761. Instructions are for "huggabacks", damask diaper, cov

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Weaver's draft book

93 pp

Small, oblong book covered in decorated end papers with vellum corners and back and remains of leather tabs to tie. Contains weaving graphs in colors of red and black and charts. Simple geometric designs.

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Weaver's thesis book

70 pp

Book bound in gray cardboard and containing some seventy-six pages of diagrams and descriptions of loom setup for different silks. Missing title page. Dated at top of page four "Janvier 5, 1829." Forty-two small samples of the weaves are attached to pages.

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Weaver's thesis book

122 pp

Description and directions for setting up a loom, including sketches of heddle arrangements, and finished samples of 102 different textiles. Directions in German script. Bound in worn grayish buckram with "Fried. Rölker" stamped in gold letters on the front cover.

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Weaver's thesis book

H x W: 36 × 25 cm (14 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

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