F. K & A.H. Searle, del.

• by Nileiris

  What does the text in the bottom left corner of the page mean? Looks like names but then there is this "del." that makes me uncertain. And if it is the name of two (related?) persons why was their names put there? Illustrators?

  Posted July 19, 2016 3:49 PM

• by OneTwoTree

  I know that Del. is a shorthand abbreviation meaning "illustrator".

  Posted July 19, 2016 6:44 PM

• by geoffrey.belknap scientist

  Del. is used as short hand for Delineavit, which means the person who drew the image. The Sc. on the bottom right is for Sculpsit, or the person who engraved it.
  When classifying, if you click the ? and go to Latin Terms, there is a list of various abbreviations you are likely to find on the illustrations

  Posted July 20, 2016 11:49 AM

• by jules moderator

  It looks to me like this is one of the illustration pages with a protective overlay so should be classed as having no image. The actual image will be out there somewhere though! You can use the tag #overlay in Talk for pages like these.

  Posted July 20, 2016 9:50 PM