On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Gothic forms applied to furniture, metalwork and decoration for domestic purposes
Bruce James Talbert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 p. ℓ., 6, [2] p. 30 plates 44 cm. Title within ornamental border. English edition published in 1867. A continuation with title: "Examples of ancient and modern furniture, metal work, tapestries, decorations, etc.," was published in 1876. Stamp embossed cover, gold stamp ornaments and title, title in Gothic lettering. From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc.
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Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement
William Robinson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
x, 172 pages : frontispiece, illustrations. "With numberous illustrations" "The country series of farm, garden, and rural books for general use" Case binding, brown cloth with title and frame in black stamp, series title in blind stamp. Folded newspaper article laid in. "A fungus among us" from a Massachusetts newspaper issued Sept. 11, 1980.
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Paoletti Impronte Volume 1: Uomini Illustri
Pietro Paoletti, Luigi Saulini, Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, John Gibson, Emil Wolf, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 volumes ; in 2 cases. Plaster cameos reproducing works of classical and contemporary sculpture, produced by the firm of Paoletti, at Rome, circa 1865. The cameos are organized and mounted in trays housed within 8 faux book bindings, with a tray of cameos underneath both the front and back cover of each volume. Each cameo is numbered in pen and ink, and in turn identified in manuscript on the inside covers of each volume. All volumes bound in quarter vellum, with green boards. The title "Paoletti impronte" is gilt-stamped on a red morocco title label at the head of the spine. On a similar label at the foot of each spine, a title for the contents of the volume is stamped in gilt; the contents are as follows: Uomini illustri ; Musei Diversi. Plaster cameos such as these were popular souvenirs for British travelers on the Grand Tour of the continent. As in the present set, they were frequently mounted in faux book bindings. "Paoletti begs to inform the public that he has arranged a collection of impressions .. of many of the works in sculpture executed by distinguished artists, whose works are described by the Count Hawks le Grice in the above interesting and instructive 'Walks' ; he has also executed impronte taken from the portraits of the author, of Thorwaldsen, Gibson, Wyatt, Wolff etc., all of which have been executed in cameo by Saulini, a distinguished Roman engraver. The impressions are bound up in 3 vol. 4o, and form an appropriate companion to the Count's work .." --Advertisement on page 269 (volume 1) of Le Grice's Walks through the Studii of the sculptors at Rome (Rome : C. Puccinelli, 1841). The address of Paoletti's shop is noted in volumes 1 and 3 of the present set. Paoletti is listed at 86 Via della Croce in at least two contemporary directories: A handbook of Rome and its environs (London : John Murray, 1864); and, Rome seen in a week (Rome : L. Piale, 1865). Paoletti's studio, during the lifetime of Pietro Paoletti (1801-1847), was previously at 49 Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Bartolomeo Paoletti, an antique dealer and engraver in Rome, began the Paoletti collection of plaster casts of intaglios and cameos between 1760 and 1770. In 1834 his son Pietro took over the business. Volume [1]. Uomini illustri ; volume [2] Musei Diversi. Case edges printed in a marbled pattern. Contents of each volume listed inside cover. Written in pencel inside Uomini Illustri volume "Mr Robert R. Taft" Transfer from the RISD Museum, Decorative Arts and Design.
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Paoletti Impronte Volume 2: Musei Diversi
Pietro Paoletti, Luigi Saulini, Antonio Canova, Bertel Thorvaldsen, John Gibson, Emil Wolf, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 volumes ; in 2 cases. Title from container. Numbered edition of 100 copies. Side A. Radio Kills 1901-1919 (8 min., 32 sec.) -- Side B. Radio Kills 1919-1920 (8 min., 45 sec.). Concept, design: Franceso Spampinato. Sound Engineer: Silver Verlicchi. Radio Kills is a sound collage inspired by the heavy-metal cult movie Trick or Threat (1986) in which a record played backwards contains subliminal messages that encourage violence and murder. In Radio Kills it is the radio to be heard backwards: Italian music, commercial, religious and political radio stations. Like Trick or Threat, Radio Kills contains subliminal messages too: a speech that Guglielmo Marconi recorded in 1932 where the inventor of the radio recalls the basic steps of the birth of the wireless transmissions from 1901 to 1920. Radio Kills is a reflection on the role of radio in the history of technological revolutions and the importance of the city of Bologna in the evolution of the uses of this medium, as birthplace of Marconi but also of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in the 1970s.--artists' website. Library has copy no. 88 numbered and signed by the artist. Gift of the artist. Record is accompanied by a compact disc which contains both sides of the vinyl record, copied by the artist.
Curated title for RISD Archives & Special Collections exhibition Now Hear This, fall 2023.
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Monographie de l'œuvre de Bernard Palissy : suivie d'un choix de ses continuateurs ou imitateurs / dessinée par Carle Delange et C. Borneman ; et accompagnée d'un texte par m. Sauzay et Henri Delange.
Carle Delange, Henri Delange, C. Bornemann, Bernard Palissy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
38 pages, [101] leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), 55 cm. Added title: Recueil de faïences françaises XVIe siècle. Gift of Mrs. Henry G. Russell from the Library of Mrs. A.A. Ives.
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; west-facing main entrance, post-renovation (1983)
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; main façade (prospect Street), taken from east
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; southeast corner of building
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; west-facing main entrance, post-renovation (1983)
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; main façade (prospect Street), taken from east
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; looking southwest from corner of Meeting Street and Prospect Street
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; southeast corner of building
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Woods-Gerry Mansion
Richard Upjohn
site: 62 Prospect Street, Providence; renovated 1983; from southeast corner Woods garden, looking northwest
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The origin and progress of the art of writing : a connected narrative of the development of the art in its primeval phases in Egypt, China, and Mexico ... and its subsequent progress to the present day / by Henry Noel Humphreys ; illustrated by a number of specimens of the writing of all ages and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
Henry Noel Humphreys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
178 pages, 28 leaves of plates : facsimiles (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Spine title: History of writing. All color plates are signed: "H.N. Humphreys, Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to The Queen." Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gilt edges. Cover is black papier mache with red backing paper. The design is the same on both covers. Binding design by Henry Noel Humphreys. Library copy is missing spine and is disbound. "The English firm Jackson & Sons held the patent for the papier-mâché bindings of the mid-1840s to 1860s that are associated with Henry Noel Humphreys. Intended to imitate medieval hand-carved bindings and architectural sculpture, so-called papier-mâché bindings were made from a molded mixture of plaster, a filler, and possibly actual papier-mâché and antimony." Unusual cover. Gift of David & Margot Nishimura.
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Georgia Cotton Manufacturing Company
RISD Archives
exterior; Original Georgia Cotton Mill erected in 1813 and demolished in 1851. Local industrialist Zachariah Allen acquired and rebuilt an expanded and improved mill complex in 1853, pictured here; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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Bayard Ewing Building (formerly Fall River Iron Works)
unknown
site: 231 South Main Street, Providence; exterior view from South Main Street, looking west
