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Dragon Magazine's theme frontispieces for 1990. My faves are March's pixie, August's falconer (or should I say "owler"?), and November's enchanter. (1/3)

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2020-09-21

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), for The English Dance of Death by William Combe (1815).

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2020-07-22

Books were booming at this time & causing a revolution in learning & information (a more dramatic & transformative version of our digital revolution). He illustrated the Dance of Death, the Icones & the title page of Luther’s bible. Young Woman (1522) & Bible Frontispiece (c1523)

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2020-07-08

How did the site of a gallows, dump, & quarry become a picturesque public park in Read a Q&A w/ professor Ann Komara: https://t.co/rBIKdcEfxZ.

📷 📖: "amazing" frontispiece & "enormous banana plants." 99003386229, 99001173612.

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2020-07-06

Portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell, wearing a hood, monkey over her right shoulder; frontispiece to 'Court and kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell' (1664).

British Museum

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2020-07-05

Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (Frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass), Master of Otto van Moerdrecht, c. 1440-1450 https://t.co/Jbc0zPkpVs

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2020-07-04

Harry Clarke's 'The Last Hour of the Night' (1922), the frontispiece for 'Dublin of the Future'
'Nosferatu' theatrical program book cover illustration by Albin Grau (1922)

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2020-07-01

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/DrgAdVo3Vc

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2020-06-28

Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd

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2020-06-21

Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (England, 1756-1827), for the frontispiece of 'The English Dance of Death' by William Combe (1815). To get you in a weekend mood.

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2020-06-20

Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece illustration to Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1933)

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2020-06-16

didoofcarthage:

Detail of a frontispiece after Richard Westall for Paradise Lost, from The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by Samuel Egerton Brydges

English, published in London in 1835

engraving and etching, printed on chine collé

British Muse… https://t.co/54rRC48Bms

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2020-05-28

Seventeenth-century dick shopping.

[Engraving for the frontispiece of Nicolas Chorier's 'Aloisiae Sigaeae', printed in Amsterdam, c. 1690]

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2020-05-13

Salvador Dali


Salvador Dali's frontispiece illustration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from 1969.

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2020-05-11

Frontispiece to Man-Midwifery Dissected by Samuel W Fores: https://t.co/iORxIWuIVi

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2020-05-05

Claude Mellan, 1598-1688

The three Graces, holding a blank medallion and a drapery; frontispiece to de Vias’s ‘Charitum libri tres’ (Paris: Edmond Martin, 1660); before portrait in medallion, and before letter, 1659, engraving

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2020-04-13

William Russell Flint

W. S. Gilbert - Savoy Operas - Princess Ida (Frontispiece)

In a Burgundian Granary

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2020-03-31

A drawing I made as a frontispiece for my story The Summer House not used recently coloured ink and watercolour on paper 2005

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2020-03-27

'In a lockdown, we can see the essence of politics is still what Hobbes described: some people get to tell others what to do' | Illustration for today's to accompany piece by David Runciman (a pastiche of Hobbes' 'Leviathan' frontispiece)

https://t.co/BIhilWExNk

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2020-03-27

3/ 's Illustration History website, Caldecott achieved renown by lending his fluid, dynamic illustration style to a series of books of nursery rhymes in the 1870s and early 1880s. His Nursery Rhymes

[Frontispiece of The Queen of Hearts, 1881, public domain👇]

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2020-03-22