Posts tagged illustration
More variations on Shakespeare’s Ariel. Even a female version!
On top: Henry Singleton 1819 / left: Ariel in An Illustrated Shakespeare Birthday Book 1883, right: by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800-10 / Helen Jacobs (1888-1970) / Louis Rhead, early 20th century / George Cruikshank (1792-1878) / Tobacco Advertising?
More butterfly wing pictures with fairies that made bidders on ebay go crazy: On top: sold for £300.00, second sold for £330.00. The third is definitely my favorite, painted by Dorothea Buckley, measuring 16 x 9 inches (41 x 23 cms), because of the huge crack in the glass it sold for only £48.00.
Illustrator Richard Doyle (September 1824 – 11 December 1883). His work appeared also in Punch magazine, just like Edward Linley Sambourne’s.
He illustrated a string of fantasy titles, amongst them: The Enchanted Doll by Mark Lemon (1849). That’s where Marina Bychkova got her website title from?! Plus: He was the uncle of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!!
Beautiful Books - The Folio Society - not only fantastic book covers, all editions are also illustrated!
Pictures below: “Pinocchio” by Grahame Baker-Smith, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Jonathan Burton, “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Anna + Elena = Balbusso (winners of a Gold Award from The American Society of Illustrators).
English illustrator Margaret Tarrant (1888 – 29 July 1959), as mentioned before.
Pictures: 1) SurLaLune / 2) SurLaLune / 3) blog full of jelly
English illustrator and children’s author Molly Brett (1902–1990). One of her earliest commissions was to illustrate stories by Enid Blyton. She also was close friends with illustrator Margaret Tarrant.
Molly Brett postcards on ebay, Margaret Tarrant postcards on ebay.
Pictures (all Molly Brett): 1) from eBay / 2) “Dawn Chorus” from CardCow/ 3) offered here.
Ernst Kreidolf (1863 - 1956) was a Swiss illustrator of children’s books. Pictures above from his book Sommervögel (1908).
Postcards from around 1920 showing the “Walpurgisnacht”. First one on eBay, second from AK Ansichtskarten.
I have never quite understood collectors of antique postcards, they’ve always seemed a little odd to me. But since I found the About Postcards page I can see how you can become crazy over all these beautiful items…Some of the nicest illustrators I could find are Ethel Parkinson (picture 1 from eBay) / Thomas Maybank (2 from eBay) / Millicent Sowerby (3 from eBay) / Willebeek Le Mair (4 from eBay) / Rie Cramer / Hilda Miller / Sybil Barham / and of course Ida Outhwaite
Dutchies - An Edwardian Postcard Craze
Update: German & Austrian artists: Josefine Allmayer / Pauli Ebner / Liesel Lauterborn / Elsa Beskow / Gertrud Caspari
The illustrations of Ida Bohatta (*1900; †1992) have accompanied me during elementary school. Any time we did well we got stamps in our booklets. For 10 collected stamps we got a little illustrated card called “Fleisskärtchen”. I loved those cards. Pictured are her books on the four seasons, printed in 1941.
A german article on a (long passed) exhibition of Buchkunst für Kinder in Wien 1890–1938: Jugendschatz und Wunderscherlein | kultur-online
“Vom Biedermeier zur Moderne” Beispielhafte Bilderbücher für Kinder, Sammlung Hans Ulrich Beerenwinkel Mettingen, Katalog 78, Winter 2010 Pdf (114 pages, with numerous illustrations)
Russian illustrator and graphic artist Nadezhda Illarionova. Her works are fabulous, I wish she had a website…her Flickr.
Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator Harry Clarke (1889 – 1931). Picture on top: Vignette from Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe from Grandma’s Graphics found through feuilleton (highly recommended!!). Bottom picture: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, also from Grandma’s Graphics.
“Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888 - 1960) was an Australian illustrator of children’s books. Her work mostly depicted fairies. (…) Her illustrations were exhibited throughout Australia, as well as in London and Paris between 1907 and 1933.” Fairies were quite popular at that time (in 1911 “Peter and Wendy” by J. M. Barrie was published as a novel), even Queen Mary sent postcards with Ida’s illustrations to her friends. I guess Outhwaite and English coeval Cicely Mary Barker were a great influence on the fairy pictures I’ve posted here and here. And I wonder if Ida was referred to in the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries episode “Away with the fairies”.
Another pretty exciting fairy story of that time is that about the Cottingley Fairies’ photographs.
Two young cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, caused a stirr in 1917, when they claimed to have made photographs of real fairies (which decades later were exposed as a hoax). Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced of the veracity of the five pictures!
Picture on top from Antique Print Room, second from Wikipedia, third also from Wikipedia.
Scherenschnitte by Walter Draesner “Ein Totentanz”. Erste Ausgabe, Nr. 45 (1922), now on eBay for 1.300,- Euro. Digital version of the book on ULB Düsseldorf , as video on YouTube.
