IMAGE
Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953 :Ex libris architecturae P Watts Rule. P.W.R. delt. [1930s?]
- Date
- 1930 - 1940
- By
- Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953
- Reference
- A-136-019
- Description
Shows a figure in classical dress seated in the left foreground at the base of a fluted Doric column, reading a scroll. A collection of books both stacked and serried are arranged in the centre. At the right is another Doric column; both it and the one at the left are encircled with ribbon on which the names of architects are inscribed: (left column) Palladio, Vignola, Michelangelo, Vitruvius, Brunelleschi, Serlio; (right column) Wren, Inigo Jones, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Chambers. In the central distance is a high square tower with small Gothic spires around its top. The whole is framed in a fluted border with formally arranged laurel leaves.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P Watts Rule
Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph, 115 x 90 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s), Works of art, Photolithographs, Bookplates, Photolithograph, 115 x 90 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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