Gilbert
Gilbert names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Gilbert CASS, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CASS, an American architect, born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1859. He was educated in the public schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began the study of architecture in 1876. Among the notable buildings which he designed are the Capitol of Minnesota at St. Paul; the Essex County court house at Newark, N. J.; the Agricultural Building at the Omaha Exposition; the Woolworth Building and the Custom House, New York; the Central Public Library at St. Louis; the Detroit Public Library; the New Haven Public Library; the Capitol of Arkansas, at Little Rock. He was appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the Council of the Fine Arts, and was reappointed by Presidents Taft and Wilson. He was a member of the National Jury of Architecture at the Paris Exposition, and was a founder of the Architectural League of New York. He was also a member of many American and foreign architectural and art societies.
Gilbert SIR HUMPHREY, an English navigator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR HUMPHREY, an English navigator; born in Dartmouth, Devonshire, in 1539; educated at Eton and Oxford. Then, abandoning law for a career of arms, he did such good service against the Irish rebels as earned him knighthood and the government of Munster (1570), after which he saw five years' campaigning in the Netherlands. In 1576 appeared his "Discourse on a Northwest Passage to India," which was published by George Gascoigne, without his knowledge; two years later he obtained a royal patent to "discover and occupy remote heathen lands not actually possessed of any Christian prince or people." With his younger half-brother, GILA MONSTER Sir Walter Raleigh, he set out on an expedition (1578-1579) that failed. He set sail from Plymouth in June, 1583, and in August landed in Newfoundland, of which he took formal possession for Queen Elizabeth. He was shipwrecked and drowned Sept. 9, 1583.
Gilbert SIR JOHN, an English painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR JOHN, an English painter; born in Blackheath, near London, in 1817; placed at a mercantile house in the city; and later studied art. In 1836 he began to exhibit both in oil and water colors; and in 1852 he was elected an associate, in 1853 a member, in 1871 the president of the Society of Painters in Water-colors, receiving soon after the honor of knighthood. He also became an A. R. A. in 1872, an R. A. in 1876, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. His oil paintings include "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza," "Education of Gil Blas," "Murder of Becket," "Joan of Arc Entering Orleans," "Crusaders," "Wolsey at Leicester," and "Morning of Agincourt." He died in Villers-sur-Mer, France, Oct. 6, 1897.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Cass Gilbert in 1921 in mid-career, listing the Woolworth Building and the Minnesota Capitol but not the work now most identified with him: the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, which he designed in his last years and which was completed in 1935, the year after his death in 1934. The Woolworth Building, then the tallest in the world, held that title until 1930, when the Chrysler Building passed it; it is now a National Historic Landmark, and Gilbert's reputation has swung from unfashionable Beaux-Arts traditionalist back toward respect. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 claim to Newfoundland for Elizabeth I still stands as written, though the island he claimed became Canada's tenth province in 1949 rather than remaining a separate dominion. Sir John Gilbert, a Royal Academician and president of the water-colour society in his day, is now remembered chiefly as a prolific illustrator — above all of Shakespeare — rather than for the historical oil paintings the entry lists.
Written for this edition, 2026.