American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with ExamplesAllen, Charles Dexter
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American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples
Allen, Charles Dexter
Bookplates -- Bibliography; Bookplates, American
---- Andrews Pictorial.
William King Atkinson Chippendale.
Jonathan Baldwin
Luke Baldwin
Boylston Medical Library Plain armorial.
John Callender Pictorial.
Thomas Cary Ribbon and Wreath.
William Erving Ribbon and Wreath.
John Francis Plain armorial.
Hasty Pudding Library Pictorial.
Massachusetts Medical Society Allegorical.
Thomas Russell Allegorical.
Daniel Sargent, Jr. Ribbon and Wreath.
John Sullivan Ribbon and Wreath.
James Swan Plain armorial.
Dudley Atkins Tyng Ribbon and Wreath.
Solomon Vose Ribbon and Wreath.
A LIST OF PLATES ATTRIBUTED TO CALLENDER, ALTHOUGH NOT SIGNED.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Allegorical.
William Emerson Ribbon and Wreath.
Gray Ribbon and Wreath.
Dr. John Jeffries Plain armorial.
Porcellain Library Allegorical.
[Illustration: AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES]
CEPHAS G. CHILDS, who engraved the plate of _Henry D. Gilpin_, was born
in Pennsylvania, in 1793. In the years 1827 to 1830, he published a set
of views of the city of Philadelphia and its vicinity (Baker).
[Illustration: Henry D. Gilpin.]
HENRY DAWKINS was an engraver of but few original ideas, if we may judge
him rightly by his book-plate work. In this he was very largely a
copyist. Working altogether in the Chippendale style, his designs for
the most part are variations of one general plan, which seems to have
been borrowed from an English-made plate. In his plates we see
“Chippendalism run wild.” Here are introduced the love-sick swains who
play upon the flute; the dandy shepherds in stiff clothes of the most
fashionable cut, flowing curls, and large felt hats; the flirting young
damsels in very low-cut bodices, who play at being shepherdesses for the
sake of following the above-mentioned gentle keeper of sheep. Here are
the music-loving Cupids, the scantily clad females who are attended by
the Cupids, and who are far from home among the trees of the wood. In
the _James Duane_ plate we find a fountain is fixed to the side of the
frame, and is spouting water from the mouth of a man’s head.
But the plates of _Samuel Jones_, _Samuel Stringer_, and _Peter W.
Yates_ are proof that Dawkins could confine himself to the legitimate
features of good Chippendale plates. In these no outside objects are
introduced, and the design is good.
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