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Art Nouveau Bookplate

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This design for a bookplate was used as a column filler in the magazine, with no explanation. It shows a seated princess, her posture very regal, holding a bowl from which another woman is drinking. The words EX LIBRIS appear on an arch behind them. giant irises bloom suggestively, and some letters are partly visible, perhaps from the Latin Veritas (truth) or more likely Vernal meaning of Spring.

A bookplate is a pre-printed label that people would stick inside front covers of their books so that when people borrowed them, they knew where to return them.

The term Ex libris is also used for a bookplate, being Latin for from the library of.

The artist, the Polish painter and illustrator Otolia Gräfin Kraszewska (1859 – 1945), is credited; She worked with Jugend magazine from 1897 to 1916.

The name at the bottom is Lily von Poschinger, herself an artist at the time. Hat-tip to Ajinkya Dahale for responding to the Mastodon post.

version of the bookplate without the name.

bookplates, ex libris, art nouveau, women, subservience, lettering

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