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Richard C. Cusimano Collection

Collection 317

Cusimano, Richard C. (1940– ). Collection, n.d.

7.5 inches

Dr. Richard Cusimano was a history professor at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). His doctorate was in medieval and Renaissance history, and he spent much of his career translating medieval texts, including those in Latin. He began teaching at USL in 1970 and retired in 2004. During that period, he also served as the Head of the History and Geography Department and Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Behavioral Sciences. In 2004, he was awarded the Distinguished Professor Award and now has Emeritus status.

This collection consists of a series of plates culled from various sources that Dr. Cusimano used for illustrations in his teachings over the years.

Donated by Dr. Richard Cusimano.

Series:

A. Plates (illustrations) Box 1
B. Scrapbooks Box 2

Inventory:

Box 1  
1-01 Portrait of Mrs. Abington
  Portrait of Joseph Addison
  Portrait of Madame Adelaide
  Portrait of Marie-Adelaide, Fourth Daughter of Louis XV
  Portrait of Mesdames Marie Adelaide of France, Marie-Louise-Therese-Victoire of France, Sophie-Philippine-Elizabeth-Justine of France, Daughters of Louis XV
  Portrait of James Lane Allen
  Portrait of Washington Allston
  Portrait of America’s First Ally by Percy Moran
  Portrait of Jeffrey, first Baron Amherst
  Portrait of Marie Antoinette
  Portrait of Queen Anne-x2
  Portrait of Antony and Cleopatra
  Portrait of The Blind Appius led into the Senate
  Portrait of J. Austen
   
1-02 Portrait of “Babbie promises to save old nanny from the poorhouse”
  Portrait of Thomas Babington, lord Macaulay-x2
  Portrait of Balzac
  Portrait of Honore de Balzac
  Portrait of Honore De Balzac x2
  Portrait of Barbara shelling peas
  Portrait of Madame du Barry
  Portrait of Lieutenant-general Sir William Pepperrell Bart
  Portrait of Beaumarchais
  Portrait of a man by the name of Berenice
  Portrait of Thomas N. Beutou
  Portraits of Captain James Biddle & Captain Johnston Blakele
  Portrait of R.D. Blackmore
  Portrait of Louise Francoise De La Baume Le Blanc, Duchesse De La Valliere
  Portrait of Mary Stuart as La Reine Blanche, and as Queen of Scots
  Portrait of Anne Boleyn-x2
  Portrait of The Duchesse de Bourgogne
  Portrait of The Duke of Buckingham
  Portrait of a man by the name of Bulwer
  Portrait of John Bunyan
  Portrait of Edmund Burke-x2
  Portrait of Fammy Burney is presented to the King
  Portrait of Robert Burns
  Portrait of man by the last name of Bridge
  Portrait of Charlotte Bronte
  Portrait of Lord Byron
   
1-03 Portrait of George W. Cable
  Portrait of Augustus Caesar
  Portrait of the Death of Caesar
  Portrait of the Government Houses in Calcutta
  Portrait of John C. Calhoun-x3
  Portrait of Calypso
  Portrait of Amiens Cathedral
  Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
  Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
  Portrait of the Siege of Carthage
  Portrait of Jacques Cartier
  Portrait of Jacques Cartier among the Indians of Canada in 1535
  Portrait of Catherine II Empress of Russia-x3
  Portrait of the Battle of Cerro Gordo
  Portrait of the Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare
  Portrait of Charles I
  Portrait of Charles I & Oliver Cromwell
  Portrait of Charles II-x5
  Portrait of Charles V
  Portrait of Charles IX
  Portrait of Charles IX & Elizabeth of Austria Wife of Charles IX
  Portrait of Charles I-x3
  Portrait of the coronation of Charles VII
  Portraits of Marquis De Chastellux, Comte de Rochambeau, & general du portail
  Portrait of Stratford Church
  Portrait of John Churchhill, Earl of Marlborough
  Portrait of Cicero
  Portrait of Circe
  Portrait of William Clark
  Portraits of William Clark & Meriwether Lewis
  Portrait of Marie-Julie Clary, Queen of Spain, and the Princess De Canino
  Portrait of Henry Clay
  Portrait of Cleopatra
  Portrait of the Comte D’Artois
  Portrait of the Battle between the constitution and the guerriere
  Portrait of Princesse de Conti x2
  Portrait of Pierre Corneille
  Portrait of Cornelia
  Portrait of Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
  Portrait of Hernando Cortes
  Portrait of Mlle de Courcelles
  Portrait of Charles Egbert Craddock
  Portrait of George Cruikshank
  Portrait of the Battle of Culloden
  Portrait of George William Curtis
   
1-04 Portrait of Dante
  The Dauphin and Madame Royale
  Portrait of Stephen Decatur-x2
  Portrait of Janet Dempster
  Portrait of Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee De Beaumont Chevalier D’eon-x3
  Portrait of Monsieur and Madame D’Epinay and Chevalier
  Portrait of Desdemona
  Portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire
  Portrait of Diane de France
  Portrait of Charles Dickens
  Portrait of Dining in the Fifteenth Century
  Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
  Portrait of Porfirio Diaz
  Portrait of Domestic interior in France, Twelfth Century
  Portrait of Dora
  Portrait of Dorothea
  Portrait of Stephen Arnold Douglas
  Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
  Portrait of Madame Dubarry
  Portrait of Monsieur le Duc
  Portrait of Robert Dudley
   
1-05 Portrait of Edward IV
  Portrait of Edward IV and Richard, Duke of Gloucester
  Portrait of Edward VI as King
  Portrait of George Eliot
  Portrait of Mesdames Louis Elisabeth and Henriette de France
  Portrait of Madame Elizabeth
  Portrait of Elizabeth
  Portrait of Elizabeth in Old Age
  Portrait of Elizabeth of France
  Portrait of the Princess Elizabeth
  The Chronicles of England executed for Edward IV
  Portrait of Eugenie
  Portrait of Empress Eugenie
  Portrait of Lief Erikson
  Portrait of So-called Ermine Portrait
   
1-06 Portrait of Falstaff and Bardolph
  Portrait of Falstaff at the Boar’s Head Tavern
  Portrait of Mistress Ford
  Portrait of Benjamin Franklin-x2
  Portrait of Fredrick the Great-x5
  Portrait of officers of the French allies at Philadelphia
   
1-07 Portrait of Richard Le Galliarre
  Portrait of Richard Garnett
  Portrait of George III-x2
  Portrait of the Children of George III
  Portrait of Capture of Fort George
  Portrait of William Ewart Gladstone-x2
  Portrait of Lady Jane Grey
  Portrait of M. Guizot
  Portrait of F.P. Guizot
  Portrait of Maria Gunning
  Portrait of Nell Gwynn-x2
   
1-08 Portrait of the Execution of Nathan Hale
  Portrait of Alexander Hamilton-x2
  Portrait of Hamlet and the Actors
  Portrait of Miss Hardcastle
  Portrait of Joel Chandler Harris
  Portrait of Hawkins and his men capturing San Juan Blockhouse
  Portrait of Helen of Troy
  Portrait of the Ball at the Court of Henry III
  Portrait of Henry III
  Portrait of Henry IV
  Portrait of Henry VI and his Queen receiving a book from John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury
  Portrait of Henry VI and his Queen receiving a book from John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury x2
  Portrait of Henry VII
  Portrait of Patrick Henry
  Portrait of Prince Henry of Portugal
  Portrait of the House of Commons
  Portrait of the Houses of Parliament
  Portrait of Victor Hugo
  Portrait of Alexander Humboldt
   
1-09 Portrait of Independence Hall
  Portrait of Imogen
  Portrait of Iphigeneia
  Portrait of Isabella
  Portrait of Isabella of Austria wife of Charles IX x2
   
1-10 Portrait of Andrew Jackson
  Portrait of James I
  Portrait of Sidney Javier
  Portrait of Joseph Jefferson as “Rip Van Winkle”
  Portrait of Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough x2
  Portrait of Joan D’Arc
  Portrait of Joan of Arc
  Portrait of Andrew Johnson
  Portrait of Samuel Johnson
  Portrait of Anne Hasseltine Judson
  Portrait of Junol
   
1-11 Portrait of Lady Keith
  Portrait of Sir William Keith
  Portrait of Kentucky Pioneers
  Portrait of the Court of King’s Bench
  Portrait of the Court of King’s Bench, with the five scarlet-robed Judges
  Portrait of Seymour Kirkup
  Portrait of Knights of the Holy Ghost Embarking for the Crusades
   
1-12 Portrait of Marquis De Lafayette
  Portrait of the Battle of Lake Erie
  Portrait of the Laughing Cavalier
  Portrait of King Lear Disowning Cordelia
  Portrait of Meriwether Lewis
  Portrait of Sophia Livernet x2
  Portrait of the Great Fire of London
  Portrait of Madame de Longueville
  Portrait of Louis XIV x4
  Portrait of Louis XV
  Portrait of Louis XV
  Portrait of Louis XVI
  Portrait of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
  Portrait of Louis XVII
  Portrait of Louise of Prussia
  Portrait of Lundy’s Lane
   
1-13 Portrait of Macaulay
  Portrait of Madame de Maintenon x2
  Portrait of Sofia Magdalena Sister of Christian VII, and Wife of Gustavus III
  Portrait of the Coronation of Marie de Medici
  Portrait of Marie De Medicis
  Portrait of in Margaret’s bed-chamber, an episode of the saint-Bartholomew
  Portrait of Queen Margaret
  Portrait of the Duke of Marlborough
  Portrait of Jacques Marquette
  Portrait of Jeremiah Mason
  Portrait of The Duchess de Mazarin
  Portrait of Catherine de Medici
  Portrait of Mercedes
  Portrait of Merimee as a child
  Portrait of the Middle Ages
  Portrait of Milton
  Portrait of Massacre at Fort Mimms
  Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montago
  Portrait of Madame de Montespan
  Portrait of Mademoiselle de Montpensier
  Portrait of Sir Thomas More
  Portrait of Dinah Morris
  Portrait of the Battle of Moling Del Rey
  Portrait of John Lothrop Motley
   
1-14 Portrait of Napoleon III
  Portrait of Napoleon’s Brounac the Night before Austerlitz
  Portrait of the Throne of Napoleon in the Palace of Fontainebleau
  Portrait of A Norse Village Of the Tenth Century
   
1-15 Portrait of Ophelia
  Portrait of Othello’s Defense
   
1-16 Portrait of James Knox Pales
  Portrait of the Battle of Palo Alto
  Portrait of Panel dated 1550
  Portrait of Parnell
  Portrait of Paul I
  Portrait of Hannah Penn
  Portrait of William Penn
  Portrait of Charles Maurice De Talleyrand Perigord, Prince De Benevent
  Portrait of Commodore Perry transferring his flag at the Battle of Lake Erie
  Portrait of Philip II
  Portrait of Right Honourable William Pitt
  Portrait of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
  Portrait of the Battle of Plattsburg
  Portrait of Plutarque
  Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe
  Portrait of the Duchesse de Polignac
  Portrait of Madame de Pompadour x2
  Portrait of The Princes in the Tower x2
   
1-17 Portrait of Jean Racine
  Portrait of Madame Recamier
  Portrait of Thomas Brackett Reed
  Portrait of Miss Ada Rehan as “Katharina”
  Portrait of Miss Ada Rehan as “Katharina”
  Portrait of child with “The Age of Innocence” by Sir Joshua Reynolds on back
  Portrait of King Richard III
  Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu
  Portrait of "The Home of a Rich Athenian Woman"
  Portrait of “The Death of Major Ringgold at the Battle of Palo Alto”
  Portrait of Robert, First Lord Clive
  Portrait of Madame Roland Incarcerated in Sainte Pelagie
  Portrait of Romola
  Portrait of “The Death of General Ross at Baltimore”
  Portrait of Rob Roy
  Portrait of Ruskin
  Portraits of Captain Russell, Sir Guy Carleton & Lieutenant-Colonel De Lancey
  Portrait of Abram Joseph Ryan
   
1-18 Portrait of Sappho x2
  Portrait of Sarah, Countess of Marlborough
  Portrait of Savonarola
  Portrait of The Maid of Saragossa
  Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer
  Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
  Portrait of Winfield Scott
  Portrait of Semiramis
  Portrait of "The Capture of the Serapis” by the Bon Homme Richard
  Portrait of Shelley
  Portrait of Sheridan
  Portrait of Mrs. Sheridan
  Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Portrait of Mrs. Siddons
  Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the “Tragic Muse”
  Portrait of The Silence Broken
  Portrait of The Silvery Avon
  Portrait of Silvia
  Portrait of Mr. Burroughs at Slabsides
  Portrait of Spinoza Instructing D’Acosta
  Portrait of Myles Standish
  Portrait of Lord Strafford
  Portrait of Marie Stuart
   
1-19 Portrait of Zachary Taylor
  Portrait of a Plan of Tenochtitlan
  Portrait of Terence
  Portrait of Texan Revolutionists
  Portrait of Thackeray
  Portrait of The Ancient Theatre
  Portrait of Maria Theresa
  Portrait of The Three Musketeers
  Portrait of Tiberius and Agrippina
  Portrait of the Battle of Tippecanoe
  Portrait of Titan, by himself
  Portrait of Turenne
   
1-20 Portrait of the Battle between the United States and the Macedonian
   
1-21 Portrait of Venus of Melos
  Portrait of Venus weeping over the body of Adonis
  Portrait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
  Portrait of The Virgin
   
1-22 Portrait of the Prince of Wales
  Portrait of Horace Walpole
  Portrait of W. L. Wath
  Portrait of Washington
  Portrait of Grace Fletcher Webster
  Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
  Portrait of Westminster Abbey
  Portrait of William III
  Portrait of William of Orange, called “The Silent”
  Portrait of William Wirt
  Portrait of Major-General James Wolfe
  Portrait of John S. Wool
   
1-23 Portrait of Elihu Yale
  Portrait of W. L. Yancey
   
1-24 Portrait of Interior court of a zenana
  Portrait of Zenobia
   
1-25 Portraits: Unidentified
   
Box 2  
Scrapbook: Plates used for illustrations for his classes, some unidentified
Scrapbook: Copies of photographs, mostly identified