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Jennie Harbour – Illustrations from Fairytale Gems 1920

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Jennie Harbour (1893–1959) was an English Art Deco artist and illustrator. Harbour worked for The Raphael Tuck Publishing Company by 1919. It published illustrated postcards, calendars, and books. At first, she created illustrations like 18th-century paintings of gardens and flowers for calendars. International orders came into the company for her “delightfully distinctive, bright and pleasant” […]

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Edward J. Detmold Illustrated Books Checklist

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Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were prolific Victorian book illustrators. They spent time with another uncle, the painter Henry E. Detmold, who encouraged them in their art. The twins subsequently mastered the techniques of watercolour etching and of colour printing with copper plates, buying a printing press and producing their own proofs

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Alice B. Woodward – Illustrations for Peter Pan 1907

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Alice Bolingbroke Woodward (1862–1951), an English illustrator, was born on 3 October 1862 in Chelsea, London. She was known as one of the most prolific illustrators of the turn of the 20th century. She is known mainly for her work in children’s literature, and secondarily for her scientific illustrations. Between 1896 and 1900, she worked for

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Kay Nielsen – Illustrations for East of the Sun, West of the Moon 1914

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Kay Rasmus Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the early 20th century, the “golden age of illustration”. He joined the ranks of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in enjoying the success of the gift books of the early 20th century. Nielsen is also known for his

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Kay Nielsen Biography

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Nielsen, Kay – Danish Illustrator, 1886-1957 When Kay Nielsen died in California in 1957, he was virtually penniless and forgotten. From the height of his career as a celebrated illustrator of fairy tales, he had seemingly fallen into obscurity at the close of his life. But since his death, Nielsen’s place in history has become

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