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Bookplate

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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1900-1921

GUSN

GUSN-221091

Description

Pen and ink sketch of a bookplate. At the top is a boar sitting between a scrolled pediment with a spear in its chest.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bookplates
paper (fiber product)
ink
graphite pencils
Bookplate

Inscription

"IN MEMORIAM / THE ENGLISH COLLECTION / of / EDWIN CORTLANDT BOLLES, D.D. L.L.D. / ELOQUENT AND BELOVED CHAPLAIN / PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN / HISTORY IN TUFTS COLLEGE 1900-1920 / TUFTS COLLEGE LIBRARY" (Text on front of bookplate.)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Additional Identification Number

P333

Maker

Bridgman, Lewis Jesse, 1857-1931 (Artist)

Dimensions

13 x 10 1/16 x 1/16 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.756

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