About a month ago I posted about James Joyce’s death date (Jan. 13, 1941) and its effect on copyright. Today we can celebrate his birth date: February 2, 1882. I think he’s doing quite well for a man of 130! At his birth, Joyce’s name was famously misrecorded as James Augusta Joyce, rather than James …
The answer to last week’s puzzle is that the image is a detail from the Zodiac Man from Poor Richard’s Almanac. I specifically took this image from our 1733 Poor Richard, but it can be found in other editions as well, and versions of the Zodiac Man were a standard feature of most period almanacs. …
I’ve been super-busy this week getting ready for our upcoming exhibition, Titanic: The Rise of Rosenbach, so instead of my usual wordy post, I’m going to tempt you with a mystery object. This is a detail from an item in our book collection. What is it? Hint, it has something to do with someone famous …
It’s hard to believe, but we’ve been getting to enjoy Dave Burrell’s wonderful Rosenbach-inspired compositions for over five years now. We first started collaborating with him back in 2006, to accompany our exhibition Look Again: African American History is American History. That first year sticks out in my mind because I had my second child …
2012 marks a number of important milestones related to the Rosenbach; not only is it the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday, but on January 1st, 2012, significant portions of the Joyce oeuvre entered the public domain. Copyright is a tricky thing and the laws vary by country, …
As 2011 draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of my personal picks for highlights of the past Rosen-year: The conservation and unveiling of the only surviving Sendak mural: The Chertoff mural, post-conservation. © 1961 by Maurice Sendak, all rights reserved. Given by Nina and Larry Chertoff in loving memory of Roslyn …
Dana Byrd here, Development Assistant at the Rosenbach. Most of you have probably spoken to me about membership or registering for a program, event, or reading group. As a relatively new Rosenbacher, I was pretty overwhelmed by my first annual fund campaign and I’ve decided to steal Kathy’s soapbox for a week to tell you …
This is the fourth in a series of posts that will explore the Rosenbach’s newest initiative, Families Affected by Wartime. This ground-breaking initiative will serve the military community, a population largely ignored by museums. The Rosenbach houses an exceptional collection of wartime letters and documents which speak to the personal experience of war and the …
Fan. France, ca. 1784. 1954.2077 The great aeronautical events of December 1, 1783 are commemorated on this beautiful French fan in our collection. What exactly happened 228 years ago, you ask? The first manned ascent in a hydrogen balloon, carried out by Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert. The balloon was launched from the Tuileries garden …
Have you seen this bird? Nicolas Martinet, illustrator. In Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. C3 .B929h This lovely fellow is an illustration of the turkey (or, in French, Le Dindon) from Buffon’s 18th-century Histoire Naturelle. Here’s another plate, also from Buffon, of a rather mean-looking turkey in a barnyard …