print;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1920,0604.2
- Description
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Bookplate of Walter Sloane Kennedy (1850-1929), the American literary critic and close friend of Walt Whitman; with an eagle and a snake within a wooden grid; a proof before lettering. 1920
Woodcut on thin paper
- Production date
- 1920
- Dimensions
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Height: 105 millimetres
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Width: 94 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the lettered state see 1920,0604.3. A. J. Finberg, 'Sturge Moore's bookplates', `The Bookplate Annual for 1922`, p. 25, mentions W. S. Kennedy's favourite phrase 'A chacun son infini' (information supplied by M. Hopkinson, 13.x.10). See Martin Hopkinson, 'Ex Libris, the art of bookplates', BM 2011, p.67.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1920,0604.2