Wednesday, April 26, 2017

300. The Baptismal Record of Cornelia

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To celebrate the three hundredth contribution for 'Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon', J.G. Paul Delaney wrote a guest blog abo...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

299. Don Juan in Edinburgh

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One of Ricketts's favourite characters was Don Juan. Several paintings depicting this figure from the Mozart opera are in existence, one...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

298. A Charles Shannon Painting: Sold

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Blog reader Daniel Sheppard alerted me to an unknown painting by Charles Shannon that was offered for sale by Liss Llewellyn Fine Art in Lon...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

297. An Echo From Willowwood

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Last December, the Ohio University Press, published a book of essays about 'Victorian and neo-Victorian graphic texts', Drawing on t...
Wednesday, March 29, 2017

296. Charles Shannon's Earliest Published Illustration

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The January 1886 issue of The Magazine of Art published an early drawing by Charles Shannon to illustrate 'The Art of Sketching' b...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

295. Charles Ricketts's Earliest Published Illustration

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It is often thought that Charles Ricketts's earliest illustrations were published in a now extremely rare short-lived periodical called ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

294. An Early Drawing: Those Servants Again

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At Dominic Winters Auctions, on 2 March, an early drawing by Charles Ricketts was sold for £620. The drawing was signed 'C. Ricketts...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

293. A Shakespeare Heroine Without a Name?

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Recently, I was asked to identify a plate in the publication Shakespeare's Heroines . The book was issued as a contribution towards the ...