#colorourcollections

[hdslibrary]

Happy #ColorOurCollections week! Stop by the first floor of the library to pick up your own copy and take a break from the semester. Link to a downloadable copy in our bio. #rarebooks #woodcuts #initials #ahtl https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Myy7xp46a/?igshid=1i0cejs83sgux

[harvardfineartslib]

By popular demand, and to brighten your quarantines, the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection has come out with a coloring book! These images are all from this fantastic open-access collection, and we hope you’ll have fun with it.

Feel free to use the links in the coloring book to see the full-color versions, or just go with your imagination! We’d love to see your completed pictures! If you’d like to share, use the hashtags #ColoringWelch and #ColorOurCollections, or tag us at @HarvardFineArtsLibrary on Instagram,  @MENALibAHS on Twitter, #harvardfineartslib on Tumblr, and follow us if you haven’t already.

[huntingtonlibrary]

It’s #ColorOurCollections week! 

We’re kicking off the week with this page from our edition of Thomas More’s Utopia (1518). Download your very own coloring sheet using the link below, and don’t forget to share your masterpiece with us!

Coloring Page: Thomas More’s Utopia (1518), The Huntington. As part of The Huntington’s 2019 five initiative with @clockshopla, five artists will explore our collections and create new work, using the idea of utopia as a thematic point of departure. The project will culminate in an exhibition opening November 2019. Read more about the project here.

[librarycompany]

It’s that time of year again! Pick up your coloring tools and show us your creative side with Color Our Collections 2019! Launched by The New York Academy of Medicine in 2016, #ColorOurCollections has been a fun annual tradition with participants from libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world.  

Our first image is a book illustration showing two women gazing at a flower. To download and print the full coloring book follow: https://librarycompany.org/wp-content/uploads/LCP-COC-Portrait.pdf

Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. The decorative sisters : a modern ballad. New York. : Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., [1881?]

[illinoisrbml]

It’s #ColorOurCollections Week!

We are excited to take part in a week-long coloring fest coordinated by The New York Academy of Medicine Library! Here are our contributions to the celebration—the title page from a book of hours, two lions of St. Mark from the Cavagna Collection, and a paper doll that will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, Making Mr. Darcy.

You can download the digital coloring book from the New York Academy of Medicine Library website. Be sure to tag us in anything you color—we want to see what you create with our collections!

Images from:

Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme furent acheuees le xvii iour de Auril lan MCCCC iiiixx et xvii [i.e. 1497] pour Simon Vostre libraire demouta[n]t a la rue Neuue a lenseigne sainct Jehan leuangeliste. [Paris : Philippe Pigouchet, for Simon Vostre, 20 March, 17 April 1497]. Incunabula 264.02 C28ho1497.

Parte presa nell'eccellentis. Conseglio di Pregadi adi 14 decembrio 1593 in materia del pagamento de lettere de cambij & della valuta de cecchini : publicata adi 16 decembrio 1593. [Venice] : Stampata in Calle dalle Rasse, per il Rampazetto, [1593]. Cavagna 21003.

The protean figure and metamorphic costumes: officer’s uniform. London: Published ... by S. & J. Fuller at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, April 1, 1811. IUB 02773.

[thechildrensmuseum]

Hey everyone!  Do you want to color and get creative with items in our collection?  We know you do!  We are participating in #Color Our Collections week hosted by The New York Academy of Medicine.  We are sharing a coloring book that features timepieces from our collection.  Check out our project and other fantastic selections from participating institutions here!

[pugetsoundarchives]

#ColorOurCollections is a week-long, global coloring fest organized by libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions. Using materials from their collections, participating institutions share free coloring content to invite their followers to color and get creative with their collections. This is our third year participating, and we always have so much fun coloring our own collections and checking out the collections of some of the 100+ other institutions who participate as well! Check out our coloring pages from the last three years here.

[stratharchives]

Colour Our Collections for Chinese New Year!

In the 17th century Jesuit missionaries travelled back to Europe over land through China collating information and knowledge on the history and culture of the East. On their return they shared their experiences with Athanasius Kircher, who compiled this information and amazing illustrations of a world very different to his own. He produced the fascinating tome China Illustrata which was originally published in Latin in 1667. The copy in Strathclyde’s collection is the Dutch translation Toonneel van China printed in 1668.

Illustrations from Kircher’s Toonneel van China, showing the principal deities of the Chinese, form the theme of our contribution to the international #ColorOurCollections week on social media 4th-8th February 2019 in honour of Chinese New Year that begins this week! We invite you to download and colour the images and share them on social media tagging us @StrathArchives and including the tag #ColorOurCollections.