Monday, May 25, 2026

Litho - I

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Gothic Church concealed by Tree
1810
lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Achille Parboni
Ruins of Trajan's Market, Rome
ca. 1820
lithograph
Max Planck Institute for Art History, Florence

Jacob Wilhelm Christian Roux
after Friedrich Tiedemann
Inner Thoracic Arteries
1822
lithograph (book illustration)
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello
Contadina di Terranova
ca. 1825
lithograph
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Anonymous French Artist
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia
ca. 1826
lithograph
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Carl Boetticher
Textile Pattern
(velvet chasuble from Brandenburg Cathedral)
ca. 1830-35
lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous German Artist
Clock-maker's Workshop in Dresden
ca. 1835
lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Grobon Frères
(François-Frédéric and Anthelme-Eugène)
Pears
ca. 1850-60
lithograph
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Joséphine Ducollet
Head of Napoleon
ca. 1870
lithograph
Kupferstichkabinett,
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg

Léonce Schérer
Souvenirs de La Commune
ca. 1872
lithograph
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Rodolphe Bresdin
The Distant City
1873
lithograph
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Anonymous Italian Makers
Six Views of Florence
ca. 1875
lithographic postcards
Max Planck Institute for Art History, Florence

Hans Thoma
Allegory of Lithography
ca. 1880
drawing (print study)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Georges Meunier
Otard Dupuis & Co. - Cognac
1890
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Fritz Rehm
Multiplex Gasfernzünder
ca. 1890-95
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Le Matin (magazine)
1893
lithograph (poster)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

When the Athenians had thus gotten the command by the confederates' own accord for the hatred they bare to Pausanias, they then set down an order which cities should contribute money for this war against the barbarians, and which galleys.  For they pretended to repair the injuries they had suffered by laying waste the territories of the king.  And then first came up amongst the Athenians the office of treasurers of Greece, who were receivers of the tribute, for so they called this money contributed.  And the first tribute that was raised came to four hundred and sixty talents.  The treasury was at Delos, and their meetings were kept there in the temple. 

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Amongst other causes of revolts the principal was their failing to bring in their tribute and galleys and their refusing (when they did so) to follow the wars.  For the Athenians exacted strictly and were grievous to them by imposing a necessity of toil which they were neither accustomed nor willing to undergo.  They were also otherwise not so gentle in their government as they had been, nor followed the war upon equal terms, and could easily bring back to their subjection such as should revolt.  And of this the confederates themselves were the causes.  For through this refusal to accompany the army the most of them, to the end they might stay at home, were ordered to excuse their galleys with money, as much as it came to, by which means the navy of the Athenians was increased at the cost of the confederates, and themselves unprovided and without means to make war in case they should revolt. 

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)