Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Charles Shannon explored a limited number of subjects for his paintings, as he did for his lithographs. Street scenes were not among them, n...

Last week, I wrote about John Lane's advertisement in The International Studio . Of course, that magazine was not his only publicity cha...

One hundred copies of the Vale Press edition of the Plays of Shakespeare were set aside for the American market. They were sold by John Lane...

Several catalogues of Charles Shannon's lithographs have been published. Between 1889 and 1898, fifty-four lithographs were issued. In 1...

Some time ago, I received a mail from Belgium about a hitherto unrecorded portrait by Charles Shannon depicting a lady in a striped shirt. I...

The sheet containing the five sketches for the illustrations in Unrecorded Histories  (British Museum collection) does not include one for t...

The second story in Unrecorded Histories (1933) is called 'A Morning in Spring' and takes place on the day Caesar was assassinated i...

The only surviving moving images of Charles Ricketts show him quickly closing his mouth when he laughed to prevent the viewer from seeing hi...

Some illustrations in Unrecorded Histories  are pure silhouette drawings, but the first drawing in the book - see last week's blog - con...

Several sketches have been preserved for the cover of the short story collection Unrecorded Histories (which would be published two years a...

The auction catalogue  Japanese Prints. Art of the Woodblock (Dreweats, 8 July 2025) contains a famous print by Katsushika Hokusai, 'Un...

Bonhams in London, in an auction of British and European Art (19 June 2025), offers two drawings by Charles Shannon in a rather carelessly ...

Raphael is one of those artists whom Charles Ricketts attempted to portray in a nuanced manner in his study The Prado and Its Masterpieces ...

Charles Ricketts would write twice about Leonardo da Vinci for The Vasari Society, having previously discussed his work in his two books The...