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Princeton University Library is participating in this annual coloring festival giving access to free coloring pages during the 2021 social media campaign #ColorOurCollections. Here are the original volumes from which the coloring pages were generated from.

1.
  • Titmouse hanging on a Camellia branch

Creator:
  • Ando Hiroshige, 1797-1858
Call number:
  • E Row 1/GC063/Box 04/Normal/Gillett Griffin Gift GA 2008.01170
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)
  • Date of original print: Early 1830s.
  • Depiction: Bird hanging upside-down on tree branch.
  • Format: Ôtanzaku tate-e.
  • Inscribed [poem]: Tsubaki kare ochiru shite kara haki josô (Withered camellias--all the sweeping that goes on after they’ve fallen). -- Translated by Alfred H. Marks.
  • Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.
  • Sealed: Ichiryûsai.
  • Signed: Hiroshige hitsu.
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2.
  • Edward Lear's ABC .

Creator:
  • Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Call number:
  • Eng 20 10231
Description:
  • CTSN copy: Inscription on front free endpaper: For Maidie with love from Dad Christmas 1913.
  • CTSN copy: White Cotsen bookplate dated 2/84 on front pastedown.
Date:
  • 1913
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3.
  • 富嶽百景 / [前北齋為一改画狂老人卍筆].
  • Fugaku hyakkei / [zen Hokusai nari ichiaratame Gakyō Rōjin Manji hitsu].

Creator:
  • Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849
  • 葛飾北齋, 1760-1849
Call number:
  • NE1310 .R81
  • ND1059.K15 A327 1834
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • In art
Description:
  • Vols. 1-2 The "falcon feather" edition. Salmon pink covers embossed with scenes of Lake Biwa.
  • Wrappers lacking.
  • Vols. called: Shohen, ni-hen, san-hen.
  • Carved by: Egawa Tomekichi.
  • Vol. 3 published by: Bishū : Eirakuya Tōshirō.
  • Vol. 3 date unknown; date approximated from publisher's advertisements.
  • On double leaves, oriental style.
  • In case.
  • Vols. called: 初編, 二編, 三編.
  • Carved by: 江川留吉.
  • Vol. 3 published by: 尾州 : 永樂屋東四郎.
  • 国総: 7:18.
Date:
  • 1834-1847
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4.
  • Codex cuara, [16--?].

Call number:
  • C0744.02 (Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, no. 14)
  • Electronic Resource
Type:
  • Texts
  • Paper
  • Pen works
  • Watercolors (paintings)
  • Unbound sheets (Binding)
Description:
  • Decoration: 19 full-page pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings. Plate 1 depicts Miguel Cuara seated below a device surmounted by an eagle. There are simple plans of properties and show fields, houses, and water courses. It includes a fragmentary leaf with a calendar wheel with golssed European month names; the months from May through September are shown by crescent moons and human faces. The nine remaining pages containing drawings of men, women, and children in Indian costume.
  • Other titles: Códice de la Familia Cuara; Genealogía de la Familia Cuara; Genealogía de los Caciques Cuara Irecha de Patzcuaro.
Date:
  • [16--?].
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
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7.
  • Kupfer-Bibel, in welcher die Physica sacra, oder, geheiligte Natur-wissenschafft derer in Heil / Schrifft natürlichen Sachen, deutlich erklärt und bewährt von Joh. Jacob Schevchzer ... ; anbey zur Erläuterung and Zierde des Wercks in künstlichen Kupfer-tafeln ausgegeben und verlegt durch Johann Andreas Pfeffel ...

Creator:
  • Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733
Call number:
  • Oversize 5366.816q
Description:
  • Half title: Joh. Jacob Schevchzers Physica sacra.
  • Vol. 1-2 paged continuously ([62], 672 p.), as are v. 3-4 (1426 p.); plates numbered continuously through v. 1-4 (750 [i.e. 766] leaves of plates).
  • Engraved head-piece.
  • "Verzeichnis der Avctorvm und derselben in diesem Wercke angeführten schrifften": v. 1, prelim. pages 14-46.
  • Includes indexes.
  • Vol. 1 contains dedicatory note in manuscript by Joh. Phil. Benk. of Frankfurt.
Date:
  • 1731-1735
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