Bookplate of Lessing and Edith Rosenwald

1930

David Young Cameron

Associated Names
David Young Cameron

Artist, Scottish, 1865 - 1945

This is a drawing of a bookplate design featuring floral motifs and a landscape within an hourglass shape. The image consists of a central shield-like frame containing the names "LESSING AND EDITH ROSENWALD" at the top, surrounded by decorative flowers and tendrils. Below the names, there is an hourglass shape containing a landscape with mountains and a body of water. At the base of the hourglass is another floral motif. The overall design is symmetrical, with ornate details.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15 × 10 cm (5 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.2 × 11.5 cm (6 3/4 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.288

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rinder 1932, no. 489

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1980.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Rinder, Frank. D.Y. Cameron, an illustrated catalogue of his etchings and drypoints, 1887-1932. Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Company, 1932.

Inscriptions

in plate center: LESSING / AND / EDITH / ROSENWALD; in plate lower left: DYC; below plate lower right in graphite: D.Y. Cameron

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65567735

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