Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III

Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III
Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III

Richard de Bury Tutoring Young Edward III

Date1903
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration CitationThe Bibliomania or Book-Madness. History, Symptoms and Cure of this Fatal Disease, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1903)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions35 1/4 x 20 1/8 in. (89.5 x 51.1 cm)
frame: 46 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (117.5 x 79.4 x 10.8 cm)
Credit LineJointly owned by the Delaware Art Museum (Louisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund and Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund) and the Brandywine River Museum, by purchase, 2006
Object number2006-43
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ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn 1903, the Bibliophile Society of Boston commissioned Howard Pyle to illustrate a book by Thomas Frognall Dibdin. This is one of Pyle's five paintings; they were in turn etched by W. H. W. Bicknell, produced in a limited edition, and sold to members.

Here, the Benedictine monk Richard de Bury, a scholar of philosophy and theology and a renowned bibliophile, tutors the young Edward III, who soon will be king and a book collector in his own right. Author of a treatise praising books, de Bury believed that caring for and preparing new books was rendering service to God.
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