Edwin Megargee Book Plate - 1953 Boxer
Item Number: 141
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Value: $40
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Description
1953 Boxer Edwin Megargee Book Plate
Matted dimensions 12" x 16" opening is 9 1/2" x 7"
This is a genuine 1953 full-page book illustration by Edwin Megargee. It appeared in the first edition of a dog encyclopedia published that year. The illustration is signed in the plate by Megargee. (A print is said to be signed in the plate if the artist's signature is incorporated into the matrix and so appears as part of the printed image.) There is text on the reverse. It is mounted with a linen fabric textured acid free mat
About the Edwin Megargee:
Edwin Megargee was an animal painter, illustrator, and etcher. He was born in 1883 in Mt. Airy , Pennsylvania. Throughout his educational career, he attended Georgetown University from 1899 to 1900, Drexel Institute in Philadelphia from 1900 to 1904, and finally the Art Students League from 1904 to 1905. He was a breeder and painter of gun dogs and wrote and illustrated several illustrated dog dictionaries.
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Carol Carini
Sally Timmons