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Maker(s):Baskin, Leonard
Culture:American (1922-2000)
Title:Ex-Libris for Samuel D. Lockshin [bookplate]
Date Made:1953
Type:Print
Materials:Wood engraving in red and black on cream wove paper
Measurements:mat: 9 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in; 25.0825 cm x 20.0025 cm; sheet: 3 in x 2 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 5.3975 cm; image: 2 7/8 in x 1 15/16 in; 7.3025 cm x 4.92125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Unsigned. top & sides (black ink): [Hebrew inscription]; lwr. ctr., blw. image (black ink): SAMUEL LOCKSHIN.
Accession Number:  MH 1965.129.I(b).RII
Credit Line:Gift of Abraham Kamberg
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print is a bookplate; it depicts a dancing lion in red up on its hind legs, facing left; Hebrew lettering in black along top and sides of image; inscription in black along bottom
Hebrew quote on image from the Talmud: "Despise not any man, and carp not any thing." Samuel D. Lockshin was an industrial engineer in Easthampton, MA.

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