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Franz Michael Regenfuss was born in Nuremberg, Germany & baptised #OTD in 1713. His 'Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere..', was published in 1758. The frontispiece shows sea gods & products of the sea surrounding a bust of King Frederick V of Denmark & Norway.
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
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 #islamicart #museumarchive
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #artnouveau #aubreybeardsley
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 https://t.co/PipLc3mo2y #artnouveau #beardsley
How lovely: 'God spede the #plough, & sende us korne enow' - even the oxen look happy (though the ploughmen less so), and we’re suddenly in the room with the #medieval scribe illustrating the frontispiece to his 14thC manuscript of Piers Plowman (https://t.co/9KJTxTGLCX, f.001v).
Cover, frontispiece back flap and back of Hajime RomCom Ogabebe volume #2.
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #artnouveau #aubreybeardsley
Beautiful frontispiece to Louis XIV et son Siècle by Alexandre Dumas
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 #beardsley #artnouveau
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Old Tales (Les Vieilles Histoires), Cover-Frontispiece, 1893 https://t.co/NAlhTQnAA8 #henridetoulouselautrec
Frontispiece for Washington Irving's Diedrich Knickerbocker's A History of New-York, 1849
Illustrated by Felix O.C. Darley
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau
I still wish clean versions of these Archie Sonic frontispieces circa 1997 without writing on top of them were available somewhere...
#ArchieSonic #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic #SonicComic #SonicComics #SonicArchie #SallyAcorn #Robotnik #DrRobotnik
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 #cmaopenaccess
Frontispiece for 'The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly', 1894 https://t.co/PipLc3mo2y #aubreybeardsley #artnouveau
Frontispiece, "Wheatstone's National Melodies", 1798 https://t.co/dRmb6Jrb9M #chndm #museumarchive
Design for a Frontispiece to 'Virgilius the Sorcerer' #aubreybeardsley #beardsley
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Elles: Frontispiece, 1896 https://t.co/VCL96YjTLs #cmaprints #cmaopenaccess
A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators is today looking at Blackie's Children's Annual "24th Year" (mid 20s) with some lovely pieces within...Here it's colourful Contents Pages images by an unnamed hand and frontispiece by Cicely May Barker #IllustrationOfTheDay