Essential and invisible : the goddess of the hearth, 2001.

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Essential and invisible : the goddess of the hearth, 2001.

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Calligraphic book in acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and foil, written and designed by Jill K. Berry in celebration of Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth, and metaphor for motherhood, and for all women/mothers everywhere who tend to be "invisible and essential."

[12] leaves, bound ; 16 x 33 cm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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