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Bookplate design for Dorothea Monnington

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Dimensions: 18.4 x 12.7
Object Type: design
Material: pencil and ink on tracing paper
Catalogue number: A204xi
Artist: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Bookplate design with an eagle flying over a cliff and the sea at sunset. Designed by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo for his neice Dorothea Monnington. Dorothea was the daughter of Blanche Monnigton (née Carte), sister of Mackmurdo’s wife Eliza. For other versions see A204x, A204xi and finished version K267.

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