The Worlds of Mervyn Peake. The art of Stella Langdale, 1880–1976. Nocturne (aquatint; no date). One of Callum‘s recent book postings alerted me to the work of Stella Langdale, an artist and illustrator I hadn’t come across before. Judging from online listings her obscurity would seem to be a result of not having being as productive as some of her contemporaries, and her drawings are a deal more gloomier than the delicate pen-and-ink style that was common in book illustration at the time. But it’s her brooding charcoal masses which I find appealing.
As with the better Gustave Doré illustrations, they adumbrate more than they depict by the use of careful composition. Three of Langdale’s illustrated books have religious themes, The Dream of Gerontius (1916) by Cardinal Newman, Christ in Hades (1917) by Stephen Phillips and The Hound of Heaven (1922) by Francis Thompson. The Dream of Gerontius: “I went to sleep”. The Dream of Gerontius: “Then I was sent from Heaven”. The Dream of Gerontius: “Take me away . . .”. Christ in Hades: Stella Langdale's illustrations for The Dream of Gerontius. Lynd Ward's illustrations for Frankenstein. Lynd Ward's illustrations for Frankenstein Lynd Ward (1905 - 1985) was an American artist best known for his wood engravings — in particular, his novels without words, in which he tells a story entirely through woodcuts. His style combines Art Deco with German Expressionism. Ward's woodcuts illustrated a 1934 edition of Frankenstein, published in New York by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas.
These are outstanding, not only for excellence and power of design, but especially for insights into a disturbing and powerfully poetic work. More than any other illustrator, Ward grasped the ambivalence with which the author of Frankenstein, Percy Bysshe Shelley*, portrayed the “monster” (also called “Being”, “creature”, “fiend”, “demon”, “wretch”, and “devil”)
. — John Lauritsen To see the front cover of my rather worn copy of the 1934 Frankenstein, illustrated by Lynd Ward, click here. Full Page Illustrations: p. 27: Elizabeth as a child. p. 91: Justine in prison. p. 115: Villagers stone the monster. Beautiful Century. Beautiful Century. Silent Film Star Bookplates -Part One. When television sets first become available to the general public in the late 1940's there were a number of silent films shown because there just was not enough original content to feed the TV monster..I was hooked on those early silent flicks and to this day I actively purchase silent film star bookplates.Not every bookplate I will include is from the library of a silent film star .Some of these entertainers had long careers and some were not even in silent films but many started in silent films. If you want to read more about this collecting niche I would recommend: The 1930 Year Book of The American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers .
It has a 15 page article by Hattie Gray Baker about motion picture bookplates. Morris Ankrum (1896-1964) was a character actor whose film career spanned thirty years (mostly B films) For instance, He appeared in Invaders From Mars, Rocket ship X-M and Cattle Queen of Montana. Selous' Illustrations for Shakespeare. Exception report java.lang.NullPointerException Apache Tomcat/5.5.34. Masterpieces of the non-Western book. Edmund Dulac Art.
Hans Gerhard Sørensen (1923-1999) | Norwegian painters | TrollMoon. The changeling, John Bauer, 1913.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pinacotheca Holmesiana. The main goal of this collection is to present as many illustrations of the Canon as possible. On most websites one can find some graphics from the Strand Magazine or from various editions of the Canon in more or less good quality, but as far is known this is the only site where all 357 of Paget's illustrations are accessible on the internet. Dr. Watson gave us colourful descriptions of life in 221b Baker Street–and many artists have given us illustrations of characters and scenes from the stories.
Do you know what the interior of Baker Street might have looked like? In this collection: • Sidney Paget • • Frederic Dorr Steele • • Richard Gutschmidt • • Josef Friedrich • • Frank Wiles • • W. Jane Eyre Illustrated: An index of the art. The English Emblem Book Project. Word and Image In recent years, scholars in many disciplines have recognized that the literally thousands of engravings, wood blocks, and etchings in emblem books constitute an unparalleled source not only for the study of daily life of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but also for extraordinary insights into what the intellectuals of the times viewed as a necessary adjunct to heraldry, social life, politics, philosophy, and moral behavior.
The English emblem books scanned for this project are cultural artifacts frequently used in the analysis of reading practices, printing history, Elizabethan popular culture, the use of allegory, and the relationship of word to image. An emblem combines a picture and text for the striking presentation of a message. Heinrich Vogeler’s illustrated Wilde. The Fisherman and his Soul. It’s always satisfying when a search intended to satisfy curiosity turns up more than you expect. The subject in this case was German artist Heinrich Vogeler (1872–1942) and the surprise was finding these illustrations for a German collection of Oscar Wilde stories lurking in the archives of the Visual Telling of Stories site. The stock of imagery there is substantial and wide-ranging but the search facility stopped working a while ago and has now been removed so you either have to hit things at random or hope for happy accidents such as this.
Vogeler’s volume dates from 1911 and while his draughtsmanship isn’t as assured as some of his contemporaries there’s enough going on to make me want to see more of his illustration work. The Young King. Elsewhere on { feuilleton } • The illustrators archive • The Oscar Wilde archive.