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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

Frontispiece from "Treasure Island" By Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrations by Louis Rhead (1857-1926). Harper & Bros. (1915).

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2020-03-22

Here is little Tina Trueheart waiting to go onstage for the debut in the role of the baby in "Cricket on the Hearth" in the frontispiece for Mowatt's "Mimic Life" (1854) in which her story, "The Prompter's Daughter," appears.

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2020-03-19

Jose Gonzalez - Vampirella frontispiece re-creation (2003)

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2020-03-11



Celebrating in with this powerful and beautiful atlas frontispiece (Wise, c1840). 🌍🌏🌎

Head to https://t.co/uSnvUGxo39 where will be shining a spotlight on female map makers and publishers in The Map House collection.

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2020-03-08

The to ‘ Le Secret de la Societe des Mopses’ and a poorly painted painted in the ceiling of Lady Burlington’s Garden Room at This room led to her Room and her treasures. The word is German for

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2020-03-07

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! “The Bard” by de Loutherbourg. Wash drawing. The oil painting is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, engraved as the frontispiece to Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards

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2020-03-02

Field wildflowers (frontispiece)

Snow-drops and Crocus

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2020-03-01

"Mr Tenniel has been here today and will go to work on the frontispiece (for the Haunted Man - below). We must arrange for a dinner here, very shortly, when you and he may meet." Letter to John Leech 30/10/1848 https://t.co/m5JDobkHGH

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2020-02-28

And another local connection - Sarah T's father was Joshua Kirby, a friend of William Hogarth who had a house in Chiswick (now open to the public). Hogarth encouraged the young JK and produced frontispieces for his books on perspective - check out the attached! https://t.co/alqtDypnYV

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2020-02-25

Frontispiece to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Arthur Rackham.

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2020-02-05

Title page from 1923 book about Franklin, designed by WAD. Frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth, apparently commissioned for the book.

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2020-01-25

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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2020-01-17

First frontispiece for Fables and Fairy-Tales by Thierry-Faletans, Rodolphe Bresdin, 1868 https://t.co/hscIQMPohz

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2019-12-05

In Chapter 22 of THE CHESSMEN OF MARS, Turan (Gahan, Jed of Gathol) rescues Tara of Helium, illustrated in St. John’s frontispiece:
"Turan, the slave!" they cried, "Death to him!"
[Image: 4190, https://t.co/21YiW2UN8w]

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2019-11-30

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), “Repubblica di p. V.” (1688).

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2019-11-22

The Wizard of Oz, with illustrations by with a lovely color frontispiece of the main characters in the poppy field. 1955

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2019-11-20