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Mears oversaw a collection of artwork from the Americas, Asia and Europe. He worked with staff in all departments to provide patrons access to the art collection and served as a liaison to faculty and students in the University\'s Department of Art and Art History.

June 1, 2010, Filed Under: Art, Digital Collections

European popular imagery collection now accessible online

Unidentified (German). Patiens cornuta mulier. Die geduldige Hanreyin. (The patient cuckolded woman), 17th century. Engraving and etching. Satire on the cuckolded woman who married a much younger husband, with verses in Latin and German. An old woman, with horns growing out of her head, rides on a huge rooster. In the background to the left, her husband is wooing a younger woman, and to the right he is beating his complaining wife.

Spanning the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, the Ransom Center’s European popular imagery collection is now fully accessible online via two sources: the Center’s finding aid and ARTstor’s nonprofit digital library. The Ransom Center’s online finding aid includes descriptive text derived from collector’s notes and a lengthy subject index. Each… read more 

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