Robert Graham Evans. Public Deposited

Ornate manuscript page with a small shield featuring three fanged animal heads [possibly boars] and a thick angled stripe. The text on the page is "I have a shelf in my library for tried authors; one in my mind for tried principles; and one in my heart for tried friends." Next to the shield is the name "Robert Graham Evans." Above the shield is a crown and an identical animal's head. A banner with the phrase "Pro Patria" is at the bottom of the shield. Brown ink. Signed Ainslie Hewett with four-digit year.

Item number

• ULAL Evans, Robert Graham

Creator

• Hewett, Ainslie, 1880-1963

Creator role

• bookplate designer

Subject

• Labels
• Armorial bookplates
• Bookplates

Technique

• P4 - Commercial photogravure, rotogravure

People represented

• Evans, Robert Graham

Date original

• 1928

Language

• eng

Object type

• Relief prints

Source

• 11.4 x 7.6 cm. bookplate. Folder: Bookplates - Evans, Robert Graham, in Ainslie Hewett (1880-1963) Collection, University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.

Collection

• Ainslie Hewett (1880-1963) Bookplate Collection

Collection information

• https://library.louisville.edu/art/hewett

Repository

• University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

Ordering information

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