Category: History - American
By far the greater part of the plates are cut on copper, but there are some woodcuts as will be seen in an examination of the list; also, there are some which look as if cut in silver, which was an easier metal to work, or perhaps in type-metal. One example is known in which b...
By far the greater part of the plates are cut on copper, but there are some woodcuts as will be seen in an examination of the list; also, there are some which look as if cut in...
2. Part 2The work of these native artisans, who were mostly self-taught in this art of engraving on copper, is confessedly inferior to that of the London experts found upon the Southern...
3. Part 3On the plate of _George Bancroft_, the late historian, a chubby cherub bears a panel on which is the motto, _Sursum corda_. Another plate was also used by Mr. Bancroft which was...
4. Part 4at college. The library was founded in 1795,--about as soon as our soldier-citizens could settle down into reading stay-at-homes,--and was conducted upon the plan of monthly exc...
5. Part 5Collectors are divided in their opinions upon this question, and although not ready to hazard a guess at the engraver, the present writer believes the plate was engraved in Engl...
6. Part 6S. ALLARDICE was apprenticed to Robert Scott, who had been a pupil of Robert Strange, and who, coming to America, was made die-sinker to the Mint. He had previously made the arc...
7. Part 7PETER RUSHTON MAVERICK was born in England, April 11, 1755, and came to America about 1774. He was originally a silversmith, and came of a family whose members were for several...
8. Part 8Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Vigila_. Signed, _A. Anderson, Sculp._ The original plate had only the last name engraved; the first name was added afterwards and evidently by a...
9. Part 9Armorial. Jacobean. A very interesting specimen of its class. The profuse mantling thrown high in the air, the shell-lined background, and the curtain upheld at the ends (on whi...
10. Part 10Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Non nobis solum_. A smaller plate than the preceding, with the same arms. The name and address are given in a bracket bordered with scrolls and fo...
11. Part 11A printed name label with borders of ornamental type. The motto, _Return what thou borrowest_, _with the most sacred punctuality_, _and withhold it not_, is printed between the...
12. Part 12Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Deo regique debeo_. The shield rests upon an elaborately carved pedestal, on which the supporters, American Indians, stand. This is very probably...
13. Part 13Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Initium sapientiae est timor Dei_. Inside the name-frame an open book at either end; one labelled _Black’s Comms_. Very similar to the Bloomfield...
14. Part 14Pictorial. A number of books rest upon a shelf; with them, an hour-glass, a sickle, and two sheaves of wheat; a wreath of oak leaves and palm is erected above them, and the name...
15. Part 15Armorial in form, though no real arms are shown. Chippendale. Motto, _Cito pede praeterit aetas_. Not signed, but engraved on brass by the owner. Of Connecticut. Some dated copi...
16. Part 16Armorial. Chippendale. No motto. This plate is not signed, but is undoubtedly the work of Hurd. Of Cambridge, Mass.; inheritor of a large fortune, which he augmented largely; a...
17. Part 17Johannes Williams 1679 Label. Francis Page 1703 Armorial. William Penn 1703 Armorial. Society for Propagating the Gospel 1704 Pictorial. Thomas Prince 1704 Label. Samuel Phillip...
18. Part 18This is not the complete motto of the family of Penn of Stoke Pogis; it should be, _Dum clarum rectum taneam_, which means, While I hold to glory let me hold to right.
19. Part 19as to be hardly recognizable as the lineal descendants of those of the same type which went before. Indeed, the recent plates have little in common with the old,--new motives, n...
20. Part 20_Henry Blackwell_, of New York City, uses a plate in his collection of Welshiana which was designed for the purpose. In this plate we see the sturdy oak raised in the centre of...
21. Part 21His titled plates were mounted on gold and silver paper; and the ladies’ plates on bits of silk, damask, satin, or old pieces of brocade and other things pertaining to ladies’ w...
22. Part 22=7. Notes and Queries=, 1st Series. Book-plates, whimsical one, vi., 32; motto, i., 212; early, iii., 495; iv., 46, 93, 354; vii., 26; xi., 265, 351, 471; xii., 35, 114.
23. Part 23=150. Leighton, F.S.A. (John).= Suggestions in design, ... with descriptive and historical letter-press, by J. K. Collings, F.R.I.B.A. Blazon, Heraldry, Rebuses, &c., plates, 50...
24. Part 24Connecticut plates: LIST NUMBER. Alsop, 15 Belcher, 73 Bull, 118 Chester, 156 Conn. Theol. Inst., 178, 179 East Windsor Lit. Assn., 246 Farmington Library, 266, 267, 268 Goodwin...
25. Part 25New York plates: LIST NUMBER. Anonymous (French style), 1 Agnew, James, 9 Albany Society Library, 11 Allan, John, 12 Anderson, 18 Ball, 48 Bancker, 51 Bay, 63 Bedlow, 69 Betts,...
26. Part 26Virginia plates: LIST NUMBER. Ambler, 16 Andrews, 21 Archer, 21, 32 Armistead, 33 Banister, 57 Bathurst, 62 Bayley, 66 Beverley, 78-80 Bolling, 88 Boucher, 95 Brimage, 106 Bruff...