Detail View: RIT CARY GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION: The miracles of Our Lord

Filename: 
cc_2020_papiermachesp4
Identifier: 
cc_2020_papiermachesp4
Title: 
The miracles of Our Lord
Subject: 
Jesus Christ - Art
Subject: 
Jesus Christ - Miracles
Subject: 
Illumination of books and manuscripts - Specimens
Subject: 
Chromolithography - Specimens
Subject: 
Bookbinding - Papier mâché
Summary: 
"Remarks of the illuminator. Descriptive index of the miracles" signed: H.N.H. [i.e. Henry Noel Humphreys]
Publisher: 
Longman & Co.
Digital Publisher: 
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - Cary Graphic Arts Collection
Contributor: 
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1880
Date of Original: 
1848
Date of Digitization: 
2020
Broad Type: 
still image
Specific Type: 
books
Digital File Format: 
jpeg
Dimensions of Original: 
17.5 cm.
Language: 
English
Original Item Location: 
SPECIMEN Papier mâché 4
Library Collection: 
Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding
Digital Project: 
2020_0040_papiermache
Catalog Record: 
https://albert.rit.edu/record=b2899300
Place: 
England - London
Rights: 
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Notes: 
"The title-page contains a figure of the Saviour ... in a niche, ornamented in a style corresponding with the rest of the volume."--P. iii
Notes: 
"It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in "It has been sought to render the [papier mâché] cover also appropriate, by enriching it with medallions representing the principal miracles; it has been partly taken from a ... cover in carved ivory, executed in the 12th century ... The designs of the medallions are original."--P. iv
Other Title: 
Bible. Gospels. English. Selections.