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Engravings (prints)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Prints on paper incorporating impressions of a reverse design created on a printing plate, usually copper, into which the design has been incised (engraved) using burins or gravers. Historically, "engravings" has sometimes been incorrectly used to refer to all prints, regardless of the specific technique. For prints made from designs engraved on a flat wooden block, use "wood cuts"; for prints made from a plate that is etched rather than engraved, use "etchings."

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 326
Scope and Contents

The Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings (1 flat case file; 1662) contains 15 engravings (all on paper) that were once pages from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Major.  The engravings illustrate Brahe’s astronomical instruments and observations from his observatories, Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, in Hven, Sweden.  Some of the paper contains two different watermarks: an elephant and Christ.

Dates: 1662; Majority of material found in 1662; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/2013
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Etchings of Famous Engineers album

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 333
Scope and Contents

The Etchings of Famous Engineers album, measuring 20 x 24 inches, contains print portraits of notable engineers alongside brief typewritten biographies of each. A typed table of contents lists fifty names in both chronological and alphabetical order, though fifty-nine men appear in the album. It is likely that the initial fifty names were in the album at the time of its donation to Purdue University and the additional entries added later.

Dates: circa 19th century - 1960
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections