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[Bookplate for Hope Holmested by Thoreau MacDonald]
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| Title | [Bookplate for Hope Holmested by Thoreau MacDonald] |
| Creator | MacDonald, Thoreau |
| Date Created | [between 1900 and 1999] |
| Sort Date | 1999 |
| Description | This bookplate's design features a rising/setting sun on the horizon line of a body of water. Hovering above the water is an angel with hands in prayer, surrounded by several pairs of feathered wings. Stars appear in the heavens above and a fully risen sun or holy light glows from behind the angel's wings. |
| Extent | 1 bookplate : linocut ; 6 x 11.7 cm |
| Subject | Allegorical drawings |
| Subject - Geographic | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Personal Names | Holmested, Hope |
| Genre | Prints |
| Type | Still Image |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Language | Latin
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| Notes | Thoreau MacDonald, born in Toronto (1901-1989), was a renowned Canadian book illustrator, as well as a designer, and painter. He was self-taught and worked with his father, J. E. H. MacDonald, some of whose work is also in the UBC Bookplate collection (see, for example, BP MUR CAN P G736). Due to colour blindness, Thoreau MacDonald mainly worked in black and white. Some of his illustrations are available in various publications from the UBC Library. For other bookplates by Thoreau MacDonald in the UBC collections, see BP GEN CAN P B633 and BP GEN SL P E955. The bookplate, BP GEN CAN P B633, commissioned by Mary Katharine Black features a very similar rising/setting sun design. This bookplate, designed for the Hamilton book collector, Hope Holmested, is based off a sketch housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. This bookplate was awarded a prize at the 1926 International Bookplate Exhibition in San Francisco.
References:
1) Murray, Joan. (2009). MacDonald, Thoreau. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 11, 2009, from: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004870
2) Holmested, Hope. Retrieved June 11, 2009, from: http://angel.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/bookplate&CISOPTR=70&CISOBOX=1&REC=2
3) Black, Mary Katharine. Retrieved June 11, 2009, from: http://angel.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/bookplate&CISOPTR=70&CISOBOX=1&REC=2
4) Stacey, Robert. Canadian Bookplates. Toronto: Subway Books, 1997. |
| Access Identifier | BP MUR CAN P H656 |
| Digital Identifier | BP_MUR_CAN_P_H656 |
| Is Part Of | RBSC Bookplates |
| Source | Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Thomas Murray Bookplates Collection. Leslie Binder. BP MUR CAN P H656 |
| Date Available | 2010 |
| Publisher - Digital | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
| Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca |
| Transcript | EX LIBRIS Hope Holmested TM |
| DOI | 1.0215569 |
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