Description
Image - central image portrait surrounded by oval "1819 ROBERT CHARLES BILLINGS 1899"; drapery across top of portrait has a lighted torch; on shelf below portrait - unlit lamp and papers inkwell & quill; below shelf "From the incomes of the Robert Charles Billings Fund" and engraved just below "S.L.S May 1903"; on back in pencil "Sidney L. Smith"
see envelope entry
Source
Helen Patricia (Patsy) Wilson Bookplate Collection, Washington Public Library, Washington, IA.