Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

222. Charles Ricketts and Oscar Wilde's Woman's World (2)

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Last week Petra Clark's article in the September issue of the Journal of Victorian Culture was mentioned: '"Cleverly Drawn...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

221. Charles Ricketts and Oscar Wilde's Woman's World (1)

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PhD candidate Petra Clark (University of Delaware) recently published an article in the September issue of the  Journal of Victorian Culture...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

220. Proctor, Ricketts, Morris, Pissarro, Cobden-Sanderson

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Monomaniacal readers are of all times, and in the nineteenth century some of them ended up in a library. More than 120 years ago this happe...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

219. A Painting by Ricketts's Father

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Charles Ricketts's father was a marine painter, Charles  Robert Ricketts (1838-1883). His paintings o ccasionally come up for auction ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

218. Wilde & Mallarmé (and Ricketts) at auction

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The private library of Stéphane Mallarmé will be auctioned in Paris by Sotheby's on 15 October 2015. The collection contains his own co...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

217. Charles Ricketts at the Curwen Press

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An online bibliography, called Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press , contains information on three books with texts and/or illustrations by Ric...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

216. Oscar Wilde's Sphinx in Paris

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The former director of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève , Yves Peyré, has published a book about the bookbindings in the collection of this...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

215. An Attribution For Sale, and Sold

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The auction of  Fine Art, Antiques and Collectables   by Gorringes in Lewis included a pastel and pencil drawing that was attributed to ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

214. A Summer Miscellany: Choosing a Mask

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The Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum in the Midlands owns a painting by Charles Shannon, a portrait of Ricketts: 'The Man with th...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

213. A Summer Miscellany: La Peste

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Visiting Paris, you might want to stroll through the Musée d'Orsay, looking for pictures by, for example, Ricketts and Shannon. The ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

212. A Summer Miscellany: La Biondina

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Are you travelling to New York and visiting the Brooklyn Museum ? The museum owns four lithographs by Charles Shannon, one of which is '...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

211. A Summer Miscellany: Don Juan

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During the Summer - the holiday season for some (not me) - I will show a few works by Ricketts and Shannon that could be in a museum's g...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

210. A Plaque to Commemorate Charles Ricketts

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Gavin Morrison and Scott Myles are working on a project concerning the gravestones of type designers,  A History of Type Design . Gavin aske...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

209. A First Visit from Ricketts and Shannon

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The diaries of Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913) have not yet been published in their entirety, but they will be, ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

208. From the Library of Gary Prouk

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The sale of  English Literature, History, Children's Books & Illustrations  at Sotheby's in London on 14 July included books fro...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

207. Charles Shannon's Portraits of E.J. van Wisselingh

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The Dutch art dealer E.J. van Wisselingh (1848-1912) and his British wife Isa (Isabella Murray Mowat Angus, 1858-1931), daughter of a Scott...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

206. A Dark Sketch of Medea

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A small  Charles Ricketts  oil sketch will be auctioned today by Dreweatts at Donnington Priory in a sale of Fine Pictures (lot 160). C...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

205. A Sea Nymph by Charles Shannon

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Today, an early painting attributed to Charles Shannon is included in an auction of Sheppards in Ireland. There is no title, but the imag...
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