Artist/Designer
Bird, Elisha Brown
Preview
Commissioned for
Cheney Memorial Library
Signed
Yes
Description
An engraved pictorial bookplate on sepia tinted paper with black ink for Cheney Memorial Library. There's an image of the Hartford Hospital in 1854. There's an oil lamp and below it is a staff with two snakes coiled. There's banners on the sides of the image in Latin saying "Hic muti loquuntur Hic mortui vivunt" translating to "Here the dumb speak. Here the dead live" with an owl and books in the middle where the banners almost meet on the bottom.
Condition
Affixed on card stock
Bookplate Function
Ownership
Object Type
Bookplate
Bookplate Type
Pictorial
Language
English and Latin
Date or Era
c. 20th Century
Object Size
4.75 x 3.25 in.
Bookplate Collection Number
BA062
Subject
Bookplate designers
Subject
Bookplates--Specimens
Subject
Books—Owners’ marks
Part of
Bookplate Collection of Christine Price
Donor
Christine Price
Digital Publisher
Copley Library, University of San Diego
Date Digitized
2023-05-17
Image Format
image/jpeg
Image File Size
445 KB
Image File Location
S:\Bookplates\Bird, Elisha Brown\TIF Images\BA062.tif
Repository
Special Collections, Copley Library, University of San Diego
Copyright
Images provided for research and reference use only. For more information please contact the University Archives/ Special Collections Department, Copley Library, University of San Diego.
Digital USD Citation
"Bookplate of a building, books, and owls" (2023). Bookplates by Elisha Brown Bird. Image 24.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/bookplates-artists-bird/24