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Ruisdael's "The Rustic Cottage" is not merely an empirical landscape scene, as there is a complex allegorical meaning to the etching. On one signifying level, Ruisdael has created the symbolic theme of vanitas within this etching, which serves as a…

Bookplate for the library of Ella Park Lawrence and George Appleton Lawrence.

"The Herd" is one of Potter's earliest pure animal pieces, incorporating a direct observation of the Dutch countryside. He depicts rural life with a novel sensitivity to the play of light and shade. As the title of the etching suggests, Potter is…

"The Flight into Egypt" of c.1630-33 contains a number of characteristics of the French Classical Baroque style, as well as specific features of Claude's landscape manner. There are trees placed on both sides of the landscape vista that serve to…

Waterloo's Italianate influences figure prominently in "The Death of Adonis." While the work is undated, we can assume he produced it after his possible sojourn to Italy between 1655 and 1660. His use of line boasts a tense balance between precise…

Bookplate for the library of the Churchills. The admonishment on the bookplate reads, "The Wicked Borroweth, and Returneth Not Again."

The military nature of the cavalier is expressed in the regalia, arms, turn-out, hierarchy of rank and the way in which the men hold their weapons and other attributes. Raeven positions the cavalier in a dignified pose and the movements of the limbs…

Knox College Library Standish Fund bookplate. This 19th century bookplate has accession and classification information for the book.

Bookplate for the library of Augusta Kendall Standish and John Van Ness Standish

Bookplate for the Eleanor DeForest Smith Library in Colorado Springs, from the Bookfellow Foundation.