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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/RopiXB1BBa

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2022-06-28

‘The Portraiture of Mrs. Martha Hatfield’

Portrait of Martha Hatfield b. 27 Sept 1640, lying in bed in a trance lasting from 19 May to 21 June 1652 during which she prophesied.

Frontispiece to James Fisher, 'The wise virgin' (1664).

British Museum.

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2022-06-21

Tomioka Eisen (富岡永洗, 1864–1905)

文芸倶楽部　11巻10号　「浴後の美人」
Beauty After the Bath (Yokugo no bijin), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 11, no. 10

1905

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2022-06-19

Lovis Corinth, Statue of an Amazon (Amazonenstatue) (frontispiece) from Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings), 1920 https://t.co/s0bxMOrJ24

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2022-06-16

Frontispiece from Thomas Sprat's "The History of the Royal Society of London"
1667
Wenceslaus Hollar

(Met Museum)

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2022-06-04

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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2022-05-18

Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894

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2022-05-10

Andrea Andreani, The Triumph of Julius Caesar: Frontispiece, 1593–99 https://t.co/XIblavpWu5

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2022-05-02

Royal Feast in a Garden, left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), c. 1440 https://t.co/M0yAMVzrl3

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2022-04-25

The 1923 book celebrating Franklin’s arrival in Phildelphia was designed by WAD, but lots of others had a hand in the production, too. Including the great N. C. Wyeth, who painted the frontispiece.

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2022-04-22

Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894

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2022-04-16

Beatrix Potter, Printer’s proof of the coloured frontispiece of ‘Peter Rabbit’, 1901.

(Source: https://t.co/AzPBZt6HOt)

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2022-04-15

Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer'

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2022-04-15

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elles: Frontispiece, 1896 https://t.co/FPFrPku7HV

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2022-04-13

Letter Z in the `AA Museum of Art` is `Zebra` Blake and his 1794 illustration "The Zhaleika of Days", produced as the frontispiece to his book "Animal Alphabet Prophecies".
(After William Blake)
Part of the `AA Museum of Art`- series.

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2022-04-05

The English writing on this illustration ("Liquitex Color" "Kern Drawing Instruments") show these were collaged elements from an art materials catalogue. The book theme of the illustration is because this was the frontispiece for the first Urusei Yatsura novel.

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2022-03-31

Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) ~ Frontispiece for "Virgilius the Sorcerer pen and brush and ink, 1893.

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2022-03-29