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[Bookplate for Hope Holmested by Thoreau MacDonald] MacDonald, Thoreau

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.

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Title
[Bookplate for Hope Holmested by Thoreau MacDonald]
Creator
MacDonald, Thoreau
Date Created
[between 1900 and 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
Geographic Location
Toronto (Ont.)
Person Or Corporation
Holmested, Hope
Genre
Prints
Type
Still Image
File Format
image/jpeg
Language
Latin
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.
Identifier
BP MUR CAN P H656; BP_MUR_CAN_P_H656
Collection
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
Provider
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
DOI
10.14288/1.0215569
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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