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Grab your crayons and colored pencils, it's time to '''#ColorOurCollections'''!
Grab your crayons and colored pencils, it's time to '''#ColorOurCollections'''!


[https://twitter.com/hashtag/colorourcollections?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag #ColorOurCollections] is a week-long social media event during which libraries and archives from around the world share images from their collections and encourage you to color them in and make them your own. We've pulled all kinds of images from our collection here at the Folger, mixing 15th- and 16th-century woodcuts with illustrations from Shakespeare's plays.  
[https://twitter.com/hashtag/colorourcollections?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag #ColorOurCollections] is a week-long social media event during which libraries and archives from around the world share images from their collections and encourage you to color them in and make them your own. We've pulled all kinds of images from our collection here at the Folger, mixing 16th-century woodcuts with illustrations from Shakespeare's plays.  


From '''February 5 '''–''' 9 , 2018''', download and color any of the images we have provided here and share them with us on [https://twitter.com/FolgerLibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Twitter] or [https://www.instagram.com/folgerlibrary/ Instagram] '''@FolgerLibrary''' using the hashtag '''#ColorOurCollections.''' Be sure to follow us so you don't miss out on everyone else's work. We can't wait to see your creativity and vibrant interpretations of our collection!
From '''February 4 '''–''' 8 , 2019''', download and color any of the images we have provided here and share them with us on [https://twitter.com/FolgerLibrary?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Twitter] or [https://www.instagram.com/folgerlibrary/ Instagram] '''@FolgerLibrary''' using the hashtag '''#ColorOurCollections.''' Be sure to follow us so you don't miss out on everyone else's work. We can't wait to see your creativity and vibrant interpretations of our collection!


=== Coloring Pages from the Folger Collections ===
=== Coloring Pages from the Folger Collections ===


Download the PDF in each image caption. Want to color them all? Click [[Media:FolgerColorOurCollections2016.pdf|here]] to download all ten pages from Color our Collections 2016, or click [[Media:ColorourCollections 2017-All Pages.pdf|here]] to download all seven pages from Color our Collections 2017. Don't forget to share your work with us on social media!
Download the PDF in each image caption. Want to color them all? Click [[Media:FolgerColorOurCollections2016.pdf|here]] to download all ten pages from Color our Collections 2016, or click [[Media:ColorourCollections 2017-All Pages.pdf|here]] to download all seven pages from Color our Collections 2017. Click [https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/3/31/Folger_British_Book_lllustrations.pdf here] to download all twelve images from the [https://britishbookillustrations.folger.edu/ British Book Illustrations] project. Don't forget to share your work with us on social media!


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File:Color Gessner QL41G31585Cagev2.jpg|Woodcut from Conrad Gessner's ''Historiae Animalium,'' 1585-1604<br>[[:Media:Color Gessner QL41.G31585Cagev.2(folio) sm.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Color Gessner QL41G31585Cagev2.jpg|Woodcut from Conrad Gessner's ''Historiae Animalium,'' 1585-1604<br>[[:Media:Color Gessner QL41.G31585Cagev.2(folio) sm.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Color Gamucci 179-662q.jpg|Woodcut from Barnardo Gamucci's ''Le Antichita Della Citta di Roma...,'' 1588<br>[[:Media:Color Gamucci 179-662q.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Color Gamucci 179-662q.jpg|Woodcut from Barnardo Gamucci's ''Le Antichita Della Citta di Roma...,'' 1588<br>[[:Media:Color Gamucci 179-662q.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Color Chaucer STC5080copy1.jpg| Woodcut from ''The VVorkes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed," 1602<br>[[:Media:Color Chaucer STC5080copy1 sm.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]  
File:Color Chaucer STC5080copy1.jpg| Woodcut from ''The VVorkes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed," 1602<br>[[:Media:Color Chaucer STC5080copy1 sm.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_139-027f_256.jpg|Etching with some engraving in ''An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes''. London, 1694<br>[[:File:Folger_139-027f_256.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_139-027f_261.jpg|Etching with some engraving in ''An entire body of philosophy, according to the principles of the famous Renate Des Cartes''. London, 1694<br>[[:File:Folger_139-027f_261.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_141-008f.jpg|Engraving in ''Francisci Willughbeii de Middleton in agro Warwicensi, Armigeri, e Regia Societate, Ornothologiæ libri tres''. London, 1676<br>[[:File:Folger_141-008f.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_A703.jpg|Etching in ''Æsop's fables with his life: in English, French and Latin''. London, 1687<br>[[:File:Folger_A703.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_1099.jpg|Etching in ''Pyrotechnia, or A discourse of artificiall fire-works''. London, 1635<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_1099.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_12958.jpg|Engraving in ''Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes''. Rouen, 1633<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_12958.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_19300_163.jpg|Woodcut in ''Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp''. London, 1629<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_19300_163.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_19300_387.jpg|Woodcut in ''Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. or A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp''. London, 1629<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_19300_387.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_19459.jpg|Engraving in ''A garden of flovvers, wherein very liuely is contained a true and perfect discription of al the flovvers contained in these foure followinge bookes''. Utrecht, 1615<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_19459.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_19511.jpg|Woodcut in ''Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes''. London, 1612<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_19511.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_5460.jpg|Woodcut in ''Respublica de decimis''. Edinburgh, 1627<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_5460.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]
File:Folger_STC_5874.jpg|Woodcut in ''The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, grafting, and gardening, in three bookes''. London, 1640<br>[[:File:Folger_STC_5874.pdf|Printer-friendly PDF]]  
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Latest revision as of 13:28, 6 February 2020

Grab your crayons and colored pencils, it's time to #ColorOurCollections!

#ColorOurCollections is a week-long social media event during which libraries and archives from around the world share images from their collections and encourage you to color them in and make them your own. We've pulled all kinds of images from our collection here at the Folger, mixing 16th-century woodcuts with illustrations from Shakespeare's plays.

From February 4 8 , 2019, download and color any of the images we have provided here and share them with us on Twitter or Instagram @FolgerLibrary using the hashtag #ColorOurCollections. Be sure to follow us so you don't miss out on everyone else's work. We can't wait to see your creativity and vibrant interpretations of our collection!

Coloring Pages from the Folger Collections

Download the PDF in each image caption. Want to color them all? Click here to download all ten pages from Color our Collections 2016, or click here to download all seven pages from Color our Collections 2017. Click here to download all twelve images from the British Book Illustrations project. Don't forget to share your work with us on social media!