print; bookplate

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Object Type: print; bookplate
Museum number: D,3.107-130
Description: Twenty-four bookplates, dated between 1760-1793 each dated by hand. Decorated with armorial detail unless stated. Text within [] indicates handwritten notes: D,3.107: Armorial; 'COLLEGIVM REGALE CANTAB: / WS s'; [1785] D,3.108: Armorial; 'Collegium Emmabuelis / Cantabrigiae / Nr Stephens Calavit 1737'; [1785] D,3.109: Armorial; 'Capt Willm Smith'; [1787] D,3.110: Armorial; 'Carolus Lomax / soc pharm. London / 1776' D,3.111: Armorial; 'Robert Berry'; [1790] D,3.112: Armorial design with lion and bird; 'NIL IMPOSSIBILLE / John Du Bisson'; [1790] D,3.113: Coloured armorial; 'JE CRAINS DIEU'; [1790] D,3.114: Armorial; 'I HOPE TO SHARE / Riddell / Riddell Bart'; [1790] D,3.115: Armorial; 'SAINT QUINTIN BART'; [1790] D,3.116: Monogram initails set against bookcase; 'AA / Animus si aequus, quod petis hic est'; [1760; A Charlet] D,3.117: Armorial design set against bookcase, surmounted by two globes; 'Videte et cavete ab avaritia. Luke 12 XV Psalm 37.21 / Thomas Pownall / The Wicked borroweth & payeth not again'; [1791] D,3.118: removed; [1788 ... very old] D,3.119: Armorial shield within laboratory scene, jars in background, skull, books and reptile arranged around sheild; 'R.B. CHESTON'; [1789] D.3.120: Arms in oval, flanked by trumpeting angel and man in armour, surmounted by corwn; 'Segnitues inimica gloriae / virtuti / nihil / obstat / et armis / Skelton sc Hay Market / ANNE ELIZA / Countess of Aldborough'; [1788] D,3.121: Armorial; 'NON OMNIA POSSUMUS OMNES / Samuel Crawley Esr / Ragnall Hall Nottinghamshire'; [1788] D,3.122: Armorial, decorated; 'Swaine Leverington'; [1790] D,3.123: Armorial, surmounted by man with club; 'Sylvester Douglas'; [1789] D,3.124: Armorial; no text; [1789] D,3.125: Armorial, decorated; 'SIC DONEC / Charles Egerton'; [1790] D,3.126: Armorial, decorated; 'Libris Biblioth / Eccles Cathedr Petribur; [1760] D,3.127: Armorial medallion held by putti; 'UN DIEU UN ROY UN COEUR / JWL / Sharp Sculp'; [1791 After his left hand was cut off, she fought with his right, holding the Bridle in his mouth.] D,3.128: Armorial shield held by dark-skinned man wearing crown, tree in background; 'Thos Gill Junr Lambeth'; [1791] D,3.129: Armorial decorated; 'Walter Blunt'; [1790] D,3.130: Woman with two children by her knee, fabric of her dress pulled by putti; 'Caroli Beniamin Lengnich'; [1793]
Producer name: Print made by: Anonymous; Print made by: William Skelton (D,3.120); Print made by: William Sharp (D,3.127)
School/style
Production date: 1760-1793 (circa)
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 110 millimetres (largest); Height: 75 millimetres (smallest); Width: 62 millimetres; Width: 80 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The book plates are still kept in original folder. See Pincott, 'The book tickets of Sarah Sophia Banks', The Bookplate Journal (March 2004: vol. 1, number 2) for various descriptions of the bookplates.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: John Buchanan Riddell (D,3.114); Associated with: Thomas Pownall (? D,3.117); Associated with: Ann Elizabeth Henniker, Countess of Aldborough (D,3.120); Associated with: Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (D,3.123); Associated with: James Lake (? D,4.127)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: D,3.107-130

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