A number of pictures, including a microscope, foils, velocipede, house, easel, , an organ, and a skull atop a pile of books. From the top to the bottom there is text which reads He that borrows without return/shall in a warmer climate burn/Much study is a weariness of the flesh/And of making many books there is no end.
Subject (Name):
Scruton, A.
Subject (Topic):
Bicycle, Books, Buildings, Microscopes, Shield, and Skull
The facade of a library building, flanked by a leafy, ribboned motif. At the top are two open books on shields, "Medicine" to the left, and "Surgery" to the right. At the lower right to the building image is an insignia with phrase Quaecumque Sunt Vera, 1851.
Subject (Name):
Archibald Church Library Northwestern Medical School
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Northwestern University, Physicians, and Shield
A shield, edged with leafing, with an or field divided by a gules couple close chevron with two buckles and a crescent above; a hunting horn below. At the helm, atop a torse, is a cockatrice. Further above, upon a flowing banner trimmed with flora is the motto Deus Refugium Nostrum. The shield appears to be a part of a arched structure, with flowers and trees flanking it and water pouring from below. In the distance can be seen a castle.
Subject (Name):
Orme
Subject (Topic):
Armorial, Armorial bookplates, Bridge, Buildings, Crescent, Dragon, Horn, Physicians, River, Shields, and Wings
A man sitting beneath a tree looking through an archway at village with a large clocktower, over which the sun shines down. This picture is framed by the phrase Books do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
The Harkness Tower and other Yale buildings, with The Eye of Providence above, and a caduceus at center. In the background is East Rock with the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument in view.
Subject (Name):
Blake, Eugene Maurice, 1882-1969 and Yale School of Medicine
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.