Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon: 532. Birth and Death

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

532. Birth and Death

Tomorrow, October 7, it is ninety years since Charles Ricketts died.
Last October 2 marked the 155th anniversary of his birth.

Charles Ricketts, Self-portrait (c. 1898),
Woodcut printed from two blocks on Japan paper
British Museum No 1949,0411.989
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), artist, book designer, collector, art critic, set and costume designer & Charles Shannon (1863-1937), lithographer, painter and art collector : a weekly blog written by Paul van Capelleveen

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With contributions by Paul Delaney (no. 11, no. 100, no. 300), Paul Delaney and Armand Robichaud (no. 500), Barbara Pezzini (no. 39, no. 40), Paul Durham (no. 136), Philip R. Bishop (no. 150), Vincent Barlow (no. 189), Rebecca Mitchell (no. 400), Geoff Dibb (no. 433), John Aplin (no. 450, 476, 481, 482), Jan Piggott (no. 455, no. 492), Anna Gruetzner Robins (no. 564), and Helen Ritchie (no. 600).

Thanks are due to Marja Smolenaars.