With all the news this week being about the conclave and the new pope, I couldn’t resist writing this week’s post about an illustration of a pope. Pallavicini Master, Presentation of a book to Pope Julius II by a Benedictine. Rome, ca. 1505-1510.Rosenbach Museum & Library. 1954.569 This lovely illustration on vellum exists in our …
Here is what we were promised. George Cruikshank, Boney Hatching a Bulletin or Snug Winter Quarters. 1812. Rosenbach Museum & Library 1954.501 And here’s what we got. George Cruikshank, Anglo-Gallic Salutations In London. 1822. Rosenbach Museum & Library 1954.1880.1562 I, for one, am saddened by the lack of Snowquester here in Philadelphia, since I was …
This week’s post is another in the series of posts adapted from papers on Rosenbach objects written by our wonderful new class of docents. – – – – – – – Marianne Moore’s typewriter came to the Rosenbach Museum & Library in 1972 through a bequest of the poet. We previously believed that this typewriter …
So how do museum staff learn to be museum staff? There are many different pathways, as those of us at the Rosenbach can attest, but it typically involves a combination of study and practical experience. Here at the Rosenbach we have an active internship program to help train the next generation of museum and library …
On February 8, 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed after almost twenty years of imprisonment. The anniversary seemed a good time to showcase a letter from Mary. (Yes, this date is in the Julian calendar not the Gregorian, but we’re going to ignore that for convenience sake). George Vertue, Maria Scotorv Regin et Franciae …
This week’s post is another in a series adapted from papers on Rosenbach objects written by our wonderful new class of docents. – – – – – – Interior of front cover of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia. Translated into English verse. Edward Fitzgerald, trans. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859. EL3.F553r859 Part translation, …
This week’s blog post is again courtesy of Emelye Keyser, the Rosenbach collections intern who wrote a previous post on Rudimentum Novitiorum. Given that Emelye came to the Rosenbach after graduating from the University of Edinburgh, we couldn’t resist asking her to write a piece for tomorrow’s Burns night. — — — — — — …
This past fall the Rosenbach was joined by a wonderful new class of docents. Their rigorous training included ten weeks of lectures and workshops as well as two written assignments on books and objects in the Rosenbach collections. Over the next few weeks we plan to share a selection of their work; we hope you …
Spending time in another century is one of the joys of museum life. Over the last week I’ve been buried in Civil War manuscripts, to the point that when I walk down the street my brain reruns fragments of letters I’ve read or muses on the precise sequences of events in a particular day’s battle. …
The Rosenbach will be closed from December 24 through January 1, so this will be the last blog post of 2012. As I often do, I decided to turn to our collection of Cruikshank illustrations for some images, this time of holiday merriment. If you aren’t familiar with George Cruikshank, you might enjoy this post …