Category Archives: Prints

Student life

Posted on March 26, 2012 by mercedes-c

Sports and various outdoor activities seem like an appropriate subject for a post, now that we have 123 days to go before the London Olympics start, Hilary term has just ended, and the first days of Spring have brought sun … Continue reading →

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The Science of Sleep

Posted on February 27, 2012 by mercedes-c

Last weekend, I saw this article on sleep habits on the BBC news website: The myth of the eight-hour sleep If you scroll down, you will see two prints used by Prof Ekirch as visual evidence of his findings on … Continue reading →

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Courtships and Love Affairs

Posted on February 14, 2012 by mercedes-c

After going through Douce’s folder labelled ‘Courtships & Love Affairs’, I think it is fair to say that he was not much of a romantic. His selection of images of romance includes this depiction of a gloomy ‘man in love’ … Continue reading →

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Dickens Year

Posted on January 9, 2012 by mercedes-c

We are in Dickens Year: on 7 February, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth. A copy of Douce’s The Dance of Death bearing the bookplate of Charles Dickens can be found in the Special Collections of … Continue reading →

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Douce’s winter collection

Posted on December 16, 2011 by mercedes-c

The first snow this year fell in Oxford last night! Douce’s winter print collection has everything one may need to make the most of this season. From how to travel in style… … to what to wear to enjoy winter … Continue reading →

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Witches and goblins

Posted on October 31, 2011 by mercedes-c

Witchcraft is an important theme in Douce’s collection of prints and drawings. It has not been difficult, therefore, to find a few appropriate prints among his many images of witches, diableries, ghosts and goblins to celebrate Halloween: This etching, which … Continue reading →

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Douce’s prints

Posted on June 13, 2011 by admin

When told of Douce’s bequest to the Bodleian Library, Sir Frederic Madden predicted that, as a consequence, his late friend’s collections would ‘sleep on… undisturbed above once in a lustre by some prying individual of antiquarian celebrity’. He would have … Continue reading →

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