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Upright Cabinet Piano

Description: The piano sits upright and includes a fan pattern in the upper body and massive classical legs with scrolls.
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Date: 1835
Creator: Firth, Hall & Pond
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Glass Armonica

Description: The lid of the armonica is open and the glasses are visible. Large scroll feet on the front support the complex base.
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Date: 1830~
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Aurora che Sorgereai with Brilliant Variations for the PIano Forte

Description: This is a digital copy of the ca. 1830 edition of Henri Herz's Brilliant variations for the piano forte on the cavatina "Aurora che sorcerai" from Rossini's two-act melodrama "La donna del lago," (i.e., The lady of the lake). The library's copy is part of a bound collection of piano music by variopus nineteenth-century composers. The pianist, and Herz's friend, Franz Hünten adapted several passages of the music to suit the range of the contemporaneous piano fortes. A note on the t.p. indica… more
Date: 1830?
Creator: Herz, Henri, 1803-1888.
Partner: UNT Music Library

Interior of the Palm House

Description: The painting detail shows two women resting and a view of part of a column as well as some foliage. The oil paint technique has the appearance of being like watercolor in this loose and transparent style.
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Date: 1832
Creator: Blechen, Karl
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Interior of the Palm House

Description: In bright greens and reds, large potted plants are seen inside a building or green house. The building appears luxurious in marble with balconies, railings, and columns.
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Date: 1832
Creator: Blechen, Karl
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Walhalla

Description: A view of the Danube River is visible beneath the memorial temple on its massive foundation.
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Date: 1830/1842
Creator: Klenze, Leo, Ritter von, 1784-1864
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Walhalla

Description: The exterior view of the facade is shown in a dramatic upward view and includes the massive stairs, columns and sculpted pediment.
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Date: 1830/1842
Creator: Klenze, Leo, Ritter von, 1784-1864
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Walhalla

Description: This view shows the massive Doric columns and the expansive view into the countryside from inside the temple.
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Date: 1830/1842
Creator: Klenze, Leo, Ritter von, 1784-1864
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Walhalla

Description: The interior of the memorial temple is shown with its many attendant sculptures, busts and portraits of notable Germans.
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Date: 1830/1842
Creator: Klenze, Leo, Ritter von, 1784-1864
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Torquato Tasso

Description: The portrait depicts a man with a laurel wreath, a cape, loosely pleated black jacket resting his hands on a large book. The man also has a beard and mustache. The background is a muted green.
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Date: 1838
Creator: Kaulbach, Wilhelm von
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Torquato Tasso

Description: This detail of the painting includes a close view of the face of the man.
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Date: 1838
Creator: Kaulbach, Wilhelm von
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Sunbonnet

Description: Sunbonnet of tan and blue braided straw. The hat has a wired brim and a grayish-white silk lining. It is trimmed in tan silk ribbon, and the bavolet, or back panel which shades the neck, is composed of brown, brick red, tan and blue striped cotton fabric. The ties are of brown silk taffeta and are attached to lower edge of brim with a herringbone stitch. The TFC thanks Rebecca Jumper Matheson for her research on this object.
Date: 1830/1839
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

[Binder's Collection: Anna Pease]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music compiled by Anna M. Pease, from the collection of Thurman Morrison. All works were published in London, with multiple items published by Duff and Hodgson, Chappell, Robert Cocks & Co., and Joseph Williams. The volume features a variety of composers, including two works each by George Linley and Frank Mori. An additional set of three songs is attributed to the unnamed author of "Will you love me then as now," surmised to be Charles William Glover, though only "Th… more
Date: 1834/1869
Creator: Pease, Anna M.
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Binder's Collection: S. L. Schieffelin]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music compiled by S. L. Schieffelin. As is the case with the other Schieffelin binder's collections, this volume emphasizes variations and derivative works based on other compositions, and particularly operas. Works in this volume are entirely from the 1830s, with many by Henri Herz, Carl Czerny, and Franz Hünten, and include material frequently sourced from Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini, and Gaetano Donizetti. Most works were published in Mayence (present-day … more
Date: 1830/1839
Creator: Schieffelin, S. L.
Partner: UNT Music Library

[Every Man to His Station]

Description: Game board for "Every Man to His Station," which was originally published in 1825, with all hand-colored engravings. Each space on the board shows a different location or occupation common to early 17th century England. This version has an image of a church pasted in the center square.
Date: 1830~
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Folding fan

Description: Folding fan with tortoise-shell frame. Sticks and loop of tortoise shell; possibly for brisé style fan; missing leaf or ribbon. Measurements: 39 cm extended; guard 21 cm long x 3 cm wide
Date: 1830
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Child's Ensemble

Description: Child's dress ensemble of tan cotton with green and red/orange floral print consisting of: A) Skirt. Full length; pleated. One-inch waistband of muslin. Right side slit pocket. Center back opening; closures missing. Bottom of inside hem lined in brown glazed cotton; balance of skirt unlined. B) Bodice. Fitted with wide neckline; dropped shoulders. Neckline is trimmed with double row of fluted fabric of self. Short, puffed sleeves with caps trimmed with fluted fabric of same. V-shaped pleats … more
Date: 1830/1835
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Copy of a Map of the Seat of War in Florida

Description: Map showing the area of central Florida where the Second Seminole War took place. It includes swamps, lakes, rivers, and military roads, as well as smaller maps of Florida and of the battle ground between Major Francis Langhorne Dade and the Seminoles.
Date: March 20, 1836
Creator: Johnson, J. E.
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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