Roger Bacon
date: label: date made
content: 1903
notes: label: Description
content: This image of a monk with book, alembic, and other chemical apparatus, represents the 13th-century English philosopher Roger Bacon. The signature in the lower right corner reads “H. Pyle.” The pencil signatures on the mat read “Howard Pyle” and “W. H. W. Bicknell sc. / 1903” and “W. H. Bicknell” with his remarque (a figure of a woman holding an olive branch). The logo of The Bibliophile Society, in red, appears in the center below the image, and the words “Copyright 1903 by The Bibliophile Society” appear in the upper left corner.
label: Description
content: In connection with a new edition of "Bibliomania, or Book Madness" written by the English bibliographer, Thomas Frognall Dibden, the Bibliophile Society in Boston asked Howard Pyle (1853-1911) to create a series of images of famous authors and bibliophiles. When that project proved successful, the Society asked William Harry Warren Bicknell (1860-1947) to create large etchings of these images. This is one of those.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0290.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0290
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0290.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in; 45.085 cm x 26.035 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 1/4 in x 23 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 81.915 cm x 59.69 cm x 2.2225 cm