Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Design for a Bookplate, 1896
signed 'MARGT.MACDONALD.INVT. et DELT' and inscribed 'OMNE+BONUM+DEI+ DONUM' and 'BY.THE.TREE.OF.KNOWLEDGE.DWELLS.WISDOM.WITH.HER.CHIL- -DREN.WHICH. ARE./PLEASANT.THOUGHTS./JOHN EDWARDS.' and indistinctly inscribed lower right in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's hand 'BOOK PLATE, MARGARET MACDONALD MACKINTOSH'; pencil
211 x 168mm.

Literature

The Studio, XI, 1897, p.92, & p.98, illustrated; Ver Sacrum, vol.23, 1901, p.396.; (15) Robertson, no.12

Exhibited

Glasgow, 1933, no.118; Zurich, 1952; Manchester, 1954, no.B27; Delaware, 1976, no. 279; Toronto, 1978, no.94; Glasgow 1990

Lot Essay

The Four designed a number of bookplates during the 1890s for friends and clients. This is one of the few original drawings for such plates to survive and is one of the most complete of such 'Spook School' designs. Three copies of the bookplate are in the collection at the Hunterian Art Gallery.

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