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20 avril 2020

The Old Nursery Stories with illustrations by William Henry Margetson

The Old Nursery Stories by E. Nesbit, illustrated by WH Margetson E. Nesbit is, of course, a pen name for Edith Nesbit who was at the time of publishing of the book already married (her surname was Bland), a mother of five (two adopted), and a well-known...

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31 août 2020

The Carrot Top by Jules Renard and Felix Vallotton

The Carrot Top aka The Carrot Head (originally Poil de Carotte) by Jules Renard from 1902 is a classic work of children's literature that is not so different than today's works by substance yet very different by style. A story about all kinds of humiliating...

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28 janvier 2019

Hans Schliessmann, an illustrator, a caricaturist and master of silhouettes

Hans Johann Schliessmann (1852-1920) was an illustrator and caricaturist from Austria. Born in Mainz, Germany, came to Austria five years old. Without any formal education in painting or design he volunteered at Xylographischen Anstalt Waldheim since...

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27 août 2018

Cymon and Iphigenia: The Story and the Paintings

The story about Cymon and Iphigenia inspired numerous paintings among which Frederik Leighton's gots most attention. We'll present the story by a summary, offer two classic versions by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) and John Dryden (1631-1700), analyze...

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Tags: cymon and iphigenia, frederic leighton

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4 février 2019

The Diary of a Goose Girl

The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin and illustrated by Claude Allin Shepperson was first published in 1902 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., today still active as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt from Boston. Kate Douglas Smith was born in 1856 to a lawyer...

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Tags: claude shepperson, diary of goose girl, kate douglas wiggin

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15 avril 2023

Oliver Twist, First Edition

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, written by Charles Dickens, illustrated by George Cruikshank Oliver Twist is one of the best works by Charles Dickens and a invaluable treasury of world literature. It tells a story about an orphan who raises...

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15 janvier 2019

April Showers by Mabel Dearmer, illustrated by George Lambert

April Showers is a picture book for kids, written by Mabel Dearmer (1872-1915), illustrated by George Lambert (1873-1930), and simultaneously published by Frederick Warne and Co in London and A. C. Armstrong & Son in New York around 1890. It's a simple...

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4 novembre 2018

Les Contes de Perrault

Charles Perrault wrote some of the most popular fairy tales ever. He was not the original author of Little Red Riding Hodd or The Sleeping Beauty or The Puss in Boots, but it is still more important than ever. than three centuries after Perrault's The...

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15 février 2019

Told in the twilight (stories to tell to children) with illustrations by Blanche McManus

There are ten stories for children altogether in the book, each of them accompanied with a line illustration by Blanche Mcmanus. We'll present the stories with very short summaries and pictures by Blanche McManus. Undine, the water maid, who wedded a...

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11 août 2023

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter

This story features a white duck (yes, she is a duck, not a goose!) who has only one wish - to be able to lay her own eggs. Let's see how Beatrix Potter tells about her adventures - by her words and her illustrations. The book was published in 1908 by...

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13 février 2018

The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights

This classic Russian fairy tale starts with a king leaving the castle with a queen waiting for him. She waits for nine months until she gives a birth to a beautiful daughter right when the king returns home. The same day the queen dies. After one year...

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23 mars 2018

Richard Andre and Puss in Boots

Richard Andre was a pseudonym and it was not the only one used by William Roger Snow. He was a prolific illustrator of books for children and pretty prosperous businessman whose life was full of ups and downs, yet never predictable or even boring. William...

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9 avril 2018

The Beauty and the Beast, Picture Book by William H. Thwaites

Noted William H. Thwaites, a talented American painter, illustrator, and engraver, one of the founding members of the American Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1866. We know that he, among other projects, worked on several books for Hewet's illuminated...

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17 septembre 2019

Geneva Window, the Scandalous Stained-Glass Masterpiece by Harry Clarke

It was June 1925 when representatives of the Irish Department of Industry and Commerce approached Harry Clarke with the idea of designing a stained glass window for the International Labor Court in Geneva as a gift of the newly established Irish state....

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14 décembre 2018

Aesop's Fables by Charles Robinson

Fables by Aesop are one of the classic works which always attract numerous illustrators who want to show their own visions of well-known tales. Charles Robinson, a top illustrator from the Art Nouveau era got a project in 1895 when he was still at the...

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11 septembre 2018

The story of the three bears by Leonard Leslie Brooke

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was one of the leading illustrators at the beginning of 20th century. On one occassion critics commented on his works as showing the spirit of childhood with rare skill and the book about the Goldilocks intruding the...

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15 janvier 2018

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb, illustrated by John Liston Byam Shaw

This book is one of the many editions of Tales from Shakespeare, written by Charles and Mary Lamb and first published in 1807 by John Goldwin in his Juvenile Library collection. The presented edition was produced by John Byam Shaw and was published in...

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