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Engraving from De architectura libri dece, Vitruvius, 1521
Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, Mark Luca, 20th century
Portrait of William Butler Yeats, William Rothenstein, ca. 1897
Drawing, O. Henry, ca. 1905
Devil's Bridge, Spain, Charles Clifford, ca. 1858
Woodcut of initial letter "L" from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, ca. 1931
Portrait of Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ca. 1847
Drawing from Italian architectural treatise, 17th century
Portrait of Lord Byron, William Edward West, ca. 1822
Duchamp Descending A Staircase, Eliot Elisofon, 1952
Woodcut from Johannes Regiomontanus's Kalendarius teutsch, 1512
Self-portrait, Edward Lear, ca. 1881
Caricature of Arthur Wing Pinero, Max Beerbohm, 1906
Title page of Igor Stravinsky's orchestration of Chopin's Grande valse brillante, 1909
Illustration for Maya Angelou's poem "Our Grandmothers," John Biggers, 1994
The New York Yankees As Seen in San Antonio, E. O. Goldbeck, 1922
Study for Dante's Dream, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Study for Dante's Dream, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Portrait of J. Frank Dobie, Tom Lea, 1953
Costume design for Il buffone (the fool) in the ballet Chout, Emanuele Luzzati, 1965
Kelmscott Press Chaucer, William Morris, 1896
Woodcut of initial letter "N" from The Four Gospels, Eric Gill, ca. 1931
Engraving from British Birds, Thomas Bewick, 1805
Title page drawing for The Marionettes, William Faulkner, 1920
Cover illustration for Le chiffre sept, Jean Cocteau, 1952
Manuscript of "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas, ca. 1951
Sketch of Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, 1914
Binding for Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, Charles Meunier, 1857
Doodle from Notebook II of Samuel Beckett's Watt, 1941
This playful doodle depicting a man in a hat in the south atrium of the Harry Ransom Center is from the second of seven Watt manuscript notebooks. The notebooks are remarkable artifacts that provide a window into a time of transition for the renowned writer Samuel Beckett. Read more
Image courtesy of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.
Ruhr Miner, Fritz Henle, 1967
Childhood drawings, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ca. 1870–71
Oscar Wilde, Napoleon Sarony, 1882
Chinese character for "Make it New," Ezra Pound, 1947
Tailpiece for The Canterbury Tales, Eric Gill, 1929–31
Picasso's Eyes, David Douglas Duncan, 1957
Silhouette of Oliver Twist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, 1890s
Rooster device, Golden Cockerel Press, ca. 1923
Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge, ca. 1886
It may come as a surprise in the twenty-first century to discover that in the 1880s, details of how objects move were unknown. The human eye, unaided, cannot resolve the details of fast motion. Eadweard Muybridge and his experiments with motion photography, such as this series of pictures of a horse's gait helped solve this mystery. Read more
Photography collection, Harry Ransom Center.
Portrait of Lytton Strachey, unidentified artist, not dated
Milk Drop Coronet, Harold Edgerton, 1936
This simple image captures a milk drop as it strikes a thin layer of milk. The photographer, Harold Edgerton, maintained that he was a scientist rather than an artist, but he and his colleagues nonetheless produced many stunning pictures, of which Milk Drop is but one. National Geographic called him "the man who made time stand still." Read more
© Harold Edgerton, 2013
Courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Joyce at Midnight, Desmond Harmsworth, ca. 1930
Allie Mae Burroughs, Walker Evans, 1936
Engraving of Lunardi's balloon ascent, ca. 1785
Gloria Swanson, Edward Steichen, 1924
Samuel Beckett in Piccadilly Square, ca. 1954
