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Knowledge is power [drawing] / John Leighton.

BIB_ID
283421
Accession number
MA 2011.11
Creator
Leighton, John, 1822-1912.
Published
1859.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Part of the Bradbury album, a scrapbook of letters, sketches, drawings, prints, photographs, and printed ephemera. Significant items in the album are described in 27 individual records (MA 2011.1-27).
250 x 178 mm
Summary
A decorative background surrounds a central circle with an open Bible in it reading: "And the Lord said Let there be light. And there was light." "Knowledge is power" is written around the Bible. Flowers and a decorative banner appear at the bottom. Two quotations about books, one from Colton and one from Carlyle, are written in the lower banner.
Medium
Ink and watercolor on paper.
Classification