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Title

Bookplate of Blanche Milligan

1912

Artist

Lionel Lindsay

Australia

18 Oct 1874 – 22 May 1961

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  • Details

    Date
    1912
    Media category
    Print
    Materials used
    etching, printed on paper
    Dimensions
    4 7/8 x 3 3/16 in.
    Credit
    Gift of Blanche Milligan 1929
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    3291
    Copyright
    © Estate of Lionel Lindsay
    Artist information
    Lionel Lindsay

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    'She (Blanche Milligan) got me to do it for 6 pounds and gave me plenty of trouble and I thought as she was a nurse I would not charge her a fair price (for I designed two other ideas). Then she told me after I had made another detailed plate for her friend, that she had paid an English engraver 100 pound for a plate of three cupids borrowed from Rubens. That I had been badly diddled-and it sickened me of making any more book plates. First the fact that you cannot penetrate the idea the applicant has and if your design will suit led to waste of time and they never paid for designs.' (Letter from Lionel Lindsay to Harry Chaplin, 9 July 1958, pasted into the front of the volume of Lionel Lindsay bookplates)

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