Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Last Saturday, the book website Biblio sent out an advertisement. Until next Sunday, books can be purchased at a discount under the code wor...

In 1922, the artist, book-illustrator and (later) set-designer for films Laurence Irving came to the Keep at Chilham Castle near Canterbury,...

A week ago I received a copy of Articles from The Woman's World Edited by Oscar Wilde , a selection of thirty essays with introduction ...

In 1907, Addison B. LeBoutillier (1872-1951) - an architect, who was famous for his pottery, and also known for his drawings and etchings - ...

The Pageant. MDCCCXCVI,  edited by Charles Hazelwood Shannon and J.W. Gleeson White, was issued by the young London firm of Henry & Co. ...

Contacts between Ricketts and German artist Marcus Behmer have been the subject of blogs before (see in particular blog 624 'Charles Ric...

Charles Shannon sold lithographs, woodcuts and drawings during and after the large show in Munich at the Heinemann galleries in October 1907...

Galerie Heinemann in Munich did not send the unsold artworks back to London after the October exhibition in 1907. The works had been taken o...

Surprisingly, until recently, I had not come across this major exhibition of Ricketts and Shannon's work in 1907; the show has not been ...

Charles Shannon spent most of his adult life in London, but apart from the long trips abroad he made with Ricketts or others, he occasionall...

In his articles for The Academy , Robert Ross was free to experiment. In the 29 September 1906 episode, the starting point is Algernon Swinb...

During the time Robert Ross ran the Carfax Gallery, he regularly wrote articles for  The Academy  that were somewhere between review, commen...

Shannon's final drawing in The Alarum depicts a domestic scene with a woman and a man in their living room between plants on side table...

The drawings Shannon placed in The Alarum served two purposes: making money and raising name awareness. The drawings themselves could not be...

While Ricketts had no experience in drawing cartoons when he and Shannon started collaborating on The Alarum in 1886, his companion had. In...

Between 20 October 1886 and 12 March 1887, a weekly satirical magazine was published of which only one copy has survived (in the British Lib...