Counsel is mine and sound prudence, by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945

Counsel is mine and sound prudence

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, ROI, RWS 1872-1945

c.1898

Captioned: "From a drawing"

E. B. S. (in The Studio, 106)

The commentator here assumes that this was a design for a book-plate, and is much taken with the "little bit of pure pattern at the back," noting that "she shows a singularly felicitous convention for decorative foliage, and despite the hundreds of previous attempts, has struck out a manner of her own at once novel and beautiful" (106).

Formatting and text by George P. Landow and Jacqueline Banerjee.

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