A fireplace, surrounded on the sides by bookcases filled with books, and more books on the mantelpiece above the fireplace. The plate also contains the name "E. Spelman" in the lower left-hand corner, and the date "June 1921" in the lower right-hand corner.
Subject (Name):
Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960 and Yale School of Medicine
Looking through a window, there is a sitting woman, holding a branch, with her hand on a book. On the table beneath her is a heart in a glass case, a candle, an hourglass and an open book. Beneath the image is the phrase Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.
Subject (Name):
Shaftel, Norman
Subject (Topic):
Bookplate collectors, Books, Candles, Heart, Medical historians, Physicians, Time, and Woman
A lit candle within a candle holder. Above, a right hand holds a snuffer in preparation to put out the flame. Flanking the flame is the phrase Good Night All's Well, while above the image is a banner with the phrase Paciencia Y Barajar; below a second banner, with another phrase Sursum Corda.
A square frame embroidered with leaves with a lit candle on top. A poem within the frame quotes "Reade me with the Eyes o' the Minde/The Goode is in mee see thou Flinde/And sith Bookes be but worke of Manne/The Evill in mee looke thou banne". -G. H. H. : 1877.
A shelf of books with a candle. Above the shelf, in quotes is written "Alere Flammam". Beneath the shelf is a line marked "No.", and at the bottom of the bookplate is a line marked "Baltimore", and "/18".
A scene of a large room, perhaps a study, in which a large desk and chair is at the center. There is a fireplace with a large dog lying couchant in front. Several decorations and ornaments surround the room. The image itself is framed by a border of thistle flowers and leaves. In the lower right-hand corner, next to the title text, is a small shield, divided in half and counter charged—with a chevron on each side; the left surrounded by three stars; two above, one below and three garbes of wheat of the right side; two above, one below. At the helm stands a man in metal armor.
"A family, grouped round a small round table, see with consternation that the candle has a large blue flame. They are an elderly woman who is sewing, an elderly man in a smock frock, a youth, a small child, and a dog, whose raised head appears in the foreground. Behind the woman (left) stands a ghost in white drapery, with a beard and corpse-like face, glaring down at the group."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of carricatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Watermark: J Whatman 1794., and Printseller's stamp in lower right of sheet: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. July 30, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
