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Tag Archives: Illustration
1919: At the Back of the North Wind
Jessie Willcox Smith: illustration for George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind (1919)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Books, Children, George MacDonald, Illustration, Jessie Willcox Smith, USA, Weather, Women
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1901: Am I So Very Ugly?
Walter Crane: “Am I so very ugly?” —illustration for Beauty and the Beast (ca. 1901)
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1871: Wasp in a Wig
In 1870, illustrator John Tenniel wrote to Lewis Carroll suggesting that he delete an episode from Through the Looking-Glass: Don’t think me brutal, but I am bound to say that the ‘wasp’ chapter doesn’t interest me in the least, & … Continue reading
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1899: Vasilisa the Beautiful
Ivan Bilibin: Vasilisa the Beautiful (1899)
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1862: Traveling Companions
Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) The city in the background of this painting is Menton, on the Côte d’Azur, which had become a popular destination for sufferers of tuberculosis following the 1861 publication of Dr. James Henry Bennet’s … Continue reading
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1918: Mysterious Island
N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading
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1885: Explain Yourself!
Unattributed frontispiece for an 1885 edition of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (source) —from the University of Florida’s “Afterlife of Alice” collection, part of the extensive Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature (here). The Caterpillar and Alice … Continue reading
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