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1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Unidentified engraved bookplate, signed 'Inv. W.P.B'. 1900, featuring a putto or cupid (a winged baby angel) standing on a plinth alongside a very tall flower resembling a lily. There are three flying hearts with wings above the angelic child, and the border is made up of ivy leaves and a scroll which reads 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone' across the top, as well as the names Tchaikowsky, Grieg, Musset, Keats, Coppée, Wagner, Swinburne, Rosetti and Verlaine from left to right respectively.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Unidentified engraved bookplate of an winged child featuring the names of nine artists and composers, signed 'Inv. W.P.B' 1900.
Physical description
Unidentified engraved bookplate, signed 'Inv. W.P.B'. 1900, featuring a putto or cupid (a winged baby angel) standing on a plinth alongside a very tall flower resembling a lily. There are three flying hearts with wings above the angelic child, and the border is made up of ivy leaves and a scroll which reads 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone' across the top, as well as the names Tchaikowsky, Grieg, Musset, Keats, Coppée, Wagner, Swinburne, Rosetti and Verlaine from left to right respectively.
Marks and inscriptions
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone
Credit line
Given by Mr. Norman Meredith
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Collection
Accession number
E.2108-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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