Medallion of the mark of Richard Pynson [realia].

Record ID: 
447521
Accession number: 
ARC 3250.15
Created: 
New York, 1959
Credit: 
Gift of the Hroswitha Club in memory of Belle da Costa Greene.
Description: 
1 medallion
Notes: 

The original wood medallion measures approximately 3.5 cm in height, and has a rectangular piece of wood affixed with screws to the back, giving it an overall height of 5.4 cm.
One of a group of sixteen medallions of printers' marks originally commissioned for and installed in an exhibition room created during an expansion of the Pierpont Morgan Library in the late 1950s. The medallions were deinstalled during another renovation and one was lost.
Numbered "16" in pencil on the reverse.

Summary: 

Hand-carved wooden medallion with the monogram device of printer Richard Pynson; according to Adams, the Richard Pynson medallion adorned the South wall of the exhibition room, along with the medallions of William Caxton, The Spiral Press, Elzevier Press, and Bruce Rogers.

Medium: 
wood
Dimensions: 
24 cm (diameter)
Provenance: 
Hroswitha Club.
Classification: