Bookplate for Henry B. Thompson (Brookwood Farm)
Datenot dated
Artist
Bertha Corson Day
(American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968)
MediumInk and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionsimage: 3 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (9.8 × 12.4 cm)
support: 5 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (13 × 15.9 cm)
support: 5 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (13 × 15.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1982
Object number1982-53
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter Bertha Corson Day retired from commercial illustration in 1902, she maintained an interest in book arts. She designed and exhibited several bookplates, the small decorative labels pasted onto the inside cover of a book. Bookplates had a revival with the Arts and Crafts movement, generating journals, societies, and dedicated collectors.Henry B. Thompson was a businessman from Wilmington. Brookwood Farm was his family estate near Greenville, Delaware.
