Transfer, direct from Engraved plate to stone.
Two Etchings on Copper by Bewick, reproduced by process block.
From the Collection of W. H. K. Wright.
The allegorical device represents the turret-crowned goddess Cybele, “mother of a hundred gods,” standing upon an isolated rock in the sea, holding out an olive-branch, and with her attribute, the rudder, as guide and director of the destinies of cities and states; youthful figures representing the Arts and Sciences—which are the glory of a State—are disporting themselves in the clouds.
Though not originally intended for a book-plate, a friend is desirous of adopting it, with the motto from Virgil, “[Fato prudentia major]”—to intimate that, in his opinion, prudence is greater than fate.