Surrounding the title text are a series of pictures—starting from the top left are the tablets featuring the ten commandments; then a large scallop shell alongside a few other snail shells on a beach; followed by a caduceus in the upper right-hand corner. Below is a drawing depicting Moses amongst the bulrushes.
A the center of the plate, flanked by the images of Hernan Cortes and Moctezuma, is a night scene of an enormous palace. At the forefront is a monkey-esque statuette.
A scene of a boy and a girl on a stone wall in front of a blossoming tree. In the upper right hand corner there is an image of a building with a steeple and two towers.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Children, Medical libraries, Nature, Physicians, Physicists, and Yale Medical Library
A large tree can be seen behind a stone wall that stands along a path. The tree is half flowering, half dead. In the forefront are two children—a boy who stands upon the wall reaching at the branches; and a girl who sits upon the wall, reading a book. In the upper right-hand corner, behind the initials of the plate's owner, is part of a building, namely a roof and a steeple.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Edith Banfield, 1895-1977
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Nautilus, Physicians, Shield, and Woman
A portrait of a man sitting amongst a pile of books and some bottles. Standing above him is an older, thinner male carrying a staff—perhaps a depiction of Death?
A drawing of a landscape containing a river. Underneath is the quote "I find/Under the boughs of love and hate/Eternal beauty wandering on her way." -William Butler Yeats.