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Another Midsummer Night
Another illustrated Shakespeare and another Internet Archive scan. Lucy Fitch Perkins’ adaptation dates from 1907 and while her colour work in this volume is distinctly bland, her ink drawings are styled with some tasty Art Nouveau flourishes. Puck with bat wings is an unusual touch.
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• The illustrators archive
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• Arthur Rackham’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
• A Midsummer Night’s Dadd
• William Heath Robinson’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Arthur Rackham’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Something for the Summer Solstice, the whole of Arthur Rackham’s Shakespeare at the Internet Archive. Rackham’s paintings are classics of the period but for me William Heath Robinson’s black and white drawings are the superior renderings of this story. Happily you can see that book as well.
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• The illustrators archive
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• A Midsummer Night’s Dadd
• William Heath Robinson’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Untied States of America
The Untied States of America | New film and theatre projects from Adam Curtis.
The Boy Who Drew Cats
An illustrated book from circa 1926 at the NYPL Digital Gallery. Art by T Hasegawa, words by Lafcadio Hearn.
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• The illustrators archive
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• 8 out of 10 cats prefer absinthe
• Monsieur Chat