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Table of Contents > Colonial America > Lot 47 |
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Lot Number: 47
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Ext. Rare HENRY DAWKINS Engraved Original Personal Bookplate of “WHITEHEAD HICKS” the Colonial Mayor of New York City (1766 to 1776) |
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Rare Original Copper-Plate Engraved Bookplate of "Whitehead Hicks, Esqr." who served as Mayor of New York City from 1766 to 1776, and with Engraved Imprint of the Engraver "H. Dawkins, Sculp." (c. 1753-1786), at top Crest the Latin motto: "Pro Lege et Rege" (For King and the Law), Choice Very Fine. c. 1770, Original Engraved Copper-Plate Personal Bookplate with Crest of WHITEHEAD HICKS (1728-1780), who served as the Loyalist Mayor of New York City from 1766 until his resignation in 1776. He was the first to appear before a Committee formed by the New York Provincial Congress to investigate "domestic enemies" being "disaffected to the American Cause" meeting with the Committee on June 15, 1776, during which he proclaimed his loyalty to King George III & was subsequently put on Parole. He resigned as Mayor and served as a judge before eventually retiring to his farm on Long Island, where he died at age 52 in 1789. Engraver's own imprint at bottom left reads: "H. Dawkins, Sculp." Very RARE, only a few institutional collection examples located.HENRY DAWKINS, (c.1753-1786), who emigrated from England to New York City in 1754, and found work engraving bookplates, maps & music, first in New York City, then in Philadelphia, and again in New York City. Dawkins was arrested there in 1776 for Counterfeiting Paper Money and is last heard of as petitioning Congress for his release from jail. This rare engraved Bookplate measures 4" x 3.25" and bears at top Crest the Latin motto "Pro Lege et Rege" - For King and the Law". The same Hissing Dragon, the same tilt to the whole design, and the similarity in detail and execution have led to the question of his being the engraver of the latter plate. It is not a question easy to decide, and collectors are divided over the question. This{reference number 131} style of plate came originally from England, we can be sure; and as Dawkins is seen to be a copyist, it is quite as likely that he copied from the Bushrod Washington plate, as that he designed it. He always used a squarer copper plate than the Washington plate is engraved upon; but this has evidences of having been cut down after engraving. The copied Chippendale plates which Dawkins made were apparently copied from an English example he had seen. |
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Keywords: HENRY DAWKINS, Bookplate, New York, Colonial Mayor, 1776, WHITEHEAD HICKS, Engraved, Engraver, Counterfeit, Paper Money, Congress, Parole, Loyalist |
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Lot Number: 47
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Estimate Range: $800 - $1,000 |
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