Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Last week, this blog featured two drawings by Charles Shannon held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The museu...

There are, according to the museum's website, two studies by Charles Shannon in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washing...

Many names and dates mentioned in the previous two blog posts need correcting. Names have been misspelled in various publications and on web...

By April 1938, Helen and Henry Winslow had donated a Japanese artwork to the British Museum in memory of Charles Ricketts. The museum gives ...

Included in the Oscar Wilde collection of Jeremy J. Mason (Bonhams auction of 18 February 2026) was a copy of Charles Ricketts's Beyond ...

Today, Lawrences of Bletchinley in Surrey continue an auction of Antiques and Collectables that started yesterday and will end tomorrow, se...

Late 1892, in an undated letter, the poet and prose writer Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) wrote to his former fellow student at Oxford, Charles S...

Harry Quilter (1851-1907), whose work was ridiculed by both James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde, gave Shannon and Ricketts the opportunit...

Jeremy Mason's Oscar Wilde collection, sold at Bonhams on 18 February, fetched both expected and unexpected high prices. Letters from Wi...

In a musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, it was the latter who lost and was subsequently flayed alive by Apollo. Such mythological s...

Only a handful of authors and artists created the contributions for the first issue of the magazine The Dial, issued by Shannon and Ricketts...

The critic John Russell Taylor - whose groundbreaking study, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain (1966) contains an important chapter on Ricke...

Last week's blog about a supposed trial copy of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray lingered in my mind, as if there was still...

In February 2021, Bonhams in London hosted an exhibition of books from the collection of Jeremy Mason, marking the 120th anniversary of the ...

In addition to paintings, lithographs and a few etchings, Charles Shannon produced a series of twelve chiaroscuro woodcuts,  which are somet...