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Lovis Corinth, Statue of an Amazon (Amazonenstatue) (frontispiece) from Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings), 1920 #loviscorinth #museumofmodernart https://t.co/s0bxMOrJ24
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #beardsley #aubreybeardsley https://t.co/eaAp9wVJMp
Frontispiece, "Wheatstone's National Melodies", 1798 #museumarchive #chndm https://t.co/dRmb6Jrb9M
Frontispiece from Thomas Sprat's "The History of the Royal Society of London"
1667
Wenceslaus Hollar
(Met Museum)
Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 #museumarchive #clevelandartmuseum https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 #aubreybeardsley #beardsley
The Blessing of Pan, 1927, by Lord Dunsany (one of my faves). A vicar in a Kent village tries desperately to keep his flock from straying, as the magic of Pan’s pipes draws them irresistibly to the worship of the Old Gods. Cover and frontispiece by Sidney Sime.
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 #cmaopenaccess #museumarchive
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. #ncwyeth
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau
Beatrix Potter, Printer’s proof of the coloured frontispiece of ‘Peter Rabbit’, 1901.
(Source: https://t.co/AzPBZt6HOt)
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #aubreybeardsley #beardsley
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elles: Frontispiece, 1896 https://t.co/FPFrPku7HV #cmaprints #museumarchive
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. #AnimalAlphabets @AnimalAlphabets
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.
#うる星やつら
Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) ~ Frontispiece for "Virgilius the Sorcerer pen and brush and ink, 1893.
Someone mentioned this in the replies, but here's the original cover, repurposed into a frontispiece in the published issue, including an interesting attire Geoffrey only wore here. I like it.
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 #clevelandartmuseum #museumarchive
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #beardsley #aubreybeardsley
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 #artnouveau #aubreybeardsley