{"id":1194,"date":"2012-07-06T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2012-07-06T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:39:26","slug":"bookplate-of-the-week-a-skeleton-on-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/07\/06\/bookplate-of-the-week-a-skeleton-on-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookplate of the week: a skeleton on silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/07\/Silk-bookplate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/07\/Silk-bookplate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/07\/Silk-bookplate1.jpg 549w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/07\/Silk-bookplate1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image of a skeleton kneeling on a book is part of a set of ten bookplates. They reproduce on silk prints by several eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century wood engravers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewicksociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Bewick<\/a> (1753-1828). Other subjects depicted in the set include Aesop\u2019s fable of the fox and the stork; a medal portrait of the mathematician Charles Hutton, for whom Bewick illustrated a number of books; and a hunting scene, which was a topic Bewick often illustrated. Some of these wood-engravings were first printed on paper. It is probable that not all were intended to be used as bookplates as eight bear no name.<\/p>\n<p>These bookplates were in the private collection of Philip Hofer (1898-1984), founder and first Curator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/houghton\/collections\/printing.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Printing and Graphic Arts Department<\/a> at Houghton. Over his career as curator and book collector, Hofer had a number of bookplates made for his collection. He also collected depictions of the Dance of Death and one of his bookplates, made after a fifteenth-century woodcut, represented a winged skeleton with a bow and arrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|009762205\" target=\"_blank\">Typ 805.21.2277<\/a>. Collection of bookplates printed on silk, [ca. 1850?]. Bequest of Philip Hofer, 1984.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Thanks to Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Assistant Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, for contributing this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image of a skeleton kneeling on a book is part of a set of ten bookplates. They reproduce on silk prints by several eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century wood engravers, including Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). 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