Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

F is for From. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beautie's rose might never die, But as the riper should by ti...

As a curator in a national library I see how much research profits from digitization projects on a national scale, as long as the data are i...

E is for Empress. Empress, you bade me leave my orbèd temple, And leave my Vestals. Sudden the command. Initial E in Michael Field, J...

After many blogs about the mother of Charles Ricketts, there is some news about his father. Not much though. A painting came up for auction ...

D is for Dost. Dost see how unregarded now That piece of beauty passes? Initial D in The Poems of Sir John Suckling (1896) The earl...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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