Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

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...

Although Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the most important influences on Ricketts's work, he did not write often about th...

In 1936, Christie, Manson & Woods issued the catalogue of The Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenhei...

The brief articles Ricketts wrote for the Vasari Society featured artists he often mentioned in his books  The Prado or Titian , or in revi...

From the moment the Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters presented its first portfolio in 1905 until the publicati...

The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters was founded in 1905, and a first portfolio was probably issued in January...