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 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.
"Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist" --Goethe. The scene is of the interior of a library with books on a table, and books on shelves. A quill pen is also on the table.
Subject (Name):
Dusser de Barenne, J. G.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Libraries, Medical libraries, Pens, and Physicians
At center is a small home surrounded by trees, framed by two columns.. Above this, to the left, is the seal of the University of Pennsylvania, and to the right is a circle with several symbols within it. At center is a chalice with a snake wrapped around it. Beneath this image are several books, most standing on end.
Subject (Name):
Egbert, Joseph C. and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, Houses, Nature, Physicians, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Seal, Snake, and Windows