Children's / imaginative Illustrations: February 2009

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Dave McKean

(from Cages #7)

http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/

Puck of Pooks Hill - illus. Arthur Rackham

1906

Treasure Island Illustrated by Ralph Steadman

http://www.gregorbooks.com/cgi-bin/gregor/17182.html

Home from the Holidays - illus. H. W. Petherick

1880

Friday, February 27, 2009

There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,
Who never had more than a penny;
He spent all that money,
In onions and honey,
That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Shirley Hughes

biography (Penguin)

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000015904,00.html

Japanese folk and fairy tales which include dolls.

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jshoaf/Jdolls/jdollwestern/illustrations/books3ft.html

Seesaw Gallery

[Land of Nod - Margaret Evans Price]

http://www.theseesawgallery.com/categorycatpage.html

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Fauntleroy boy

http://members.tripod.com/~histclo/faunt.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

At the Seaside

http://storybookwoods.typepad.com/storybook_woods/2008/06/at-the-sea-side.html

Model Menagerie book - 1895

by L.L. Weedon and others

published by E. Nister in London, but printed in Bavaria

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Jessie M. King - The Dwarf's Dream

http://www.artsycraftsy.com/king/king_anemones.html

http://king.artpassions.net/

Fairies at the Cradle - Warwick Goble

Willie and Lucy at the Seaside

by 'A.G.' illustrated with woodcuts and printed by the Religious Tract Society in 1868

Robinson Crusoe - illus E. Griset

1869 edition, London

1844-1907.

Ernest Griset was born in Boulogne, France, on 24 August 1843, but came to England when he was a child. His parents may have emigrated during the 1848 revolution, and the subsequent seizure of power by Napoleon III, either because of their political activity or because their livelihood was destroyed. He studied art with the Belgian artist Louis Gallait. He spent the rest of his life in north London, near the Zoo, where he drew the animals all his life ...

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/literature/chillit/griset/griset.html

Monday, February 23, 2009

Nene Thomas - Innocence

http://www.efairies.com/NTP-847.htm

Amy Brown - Bonding Ritual

http://www.efairies.com/AB285.htm

Children's Blue Bird - illus: Herbert Paus

The Children's Blue Bird [1913]
by Georgette Leblanc(Madame Maurice Maeterlinck)
Translated byAlexander Teixeira De Mattos
Illustrated byHerbert Paus
Dodd, Mead and Company, New York

Bet and Ben

Thje book was written by Amy Whipple and published by the Religious Tract Society sometime i the 1930's. The illustration is signed but I can't make out the name. The RTS tended to use jobbing artists. This is from my own collection.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Walter Crane As A Book Illustrator book

Walter Crane As A Book Illustrator
by Rodney K. Engen

Academy (1975)

Mabel Lucie Attwell - Water babies

http://nocloo.com/gallery2/v/mabel-lucie-attwell-water-babies/

Arthur Rackham - Ingoldsby Legends

http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2/v/arthur-rackham-ingoldsby-legends/

Theo Van Hoytema - Uilen-Geluk

http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2/v/theo-van-hoytema-uilen-geluk/

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Mervyn Peake - Alice

http://www.mervynpeake.org/illustrator.html

Elsa - Conformity

http://lifeinahandbag.blogspot.com/

Anthony Browne

http://www.imagesofdelight.com/client.asp?id=44#illu

EH Shepard: The Man Who Drew Pooh

Despite being a political cartoonist for "Punch" magazine for five decades, EH Shepard is best known for his delicately innocent drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh.

http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/winnie-the-pooh/features/eh-shepard-the-man-who-drew-pooh-in-progress