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Florence Anderson Collection

The Florence Anderson Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes images from some of Anderson's seminal work.

The Travelling Companions 12 images	Little Dwarf Nose and The Magic Whistle 8 images	The Cradle Ship 4 images	The Black Princess and Other Fairy Tales from Brazil 12 images
The Magic Kiss 12 images	My Fairyland 4 images	Secrets of the Flowers 8 images	Valentine and Orson 8 images
The Rainbow Twins 13 images	The Password to Fairyland 8 images	The Mysterious Rose Garden 1 image

Florence Anderson was an English artist active as a book illustrator throughout the first three decades of the

20th Century. Her art was influenced by the British Fairy School.

Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations

prepared for The Dream Pedlar published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions

throughout the decade that followed, including major suites of colour and monotone illustrations prepared

for: The Travelling Companions (1915); Little Dwarf Nose & The Magic Whistle (1916); The Black Princess and

other Fairy Tales from Brazil (1916); The Cradle Ship (1916); The Magic Kiss (1916); My Fairyland (1916);

Nutcracker and Mouse King (1916); Adventures in Magic Land and Other Tales (1917); The Rainbow

Twins (1919); Valentine and Orson: The Twin Knights of France (1919); Secrets of the Flowers (1919);

The Password to Fairyland (1920); and The Singing Fish (1922).