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The Enchanted Forest (1921)

Illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

 

 

 

The Enchanted Forest is a collaboration between Outhwaite and her husband, Grenbry - a man whose business acumen may have contributed significantly to his wife's success. For The Enchanted Forest, for example, Grenbry is known to have subsidised the printing costs with his own contribution of £400 to ensure high quality reproduction of his wife's illustration. In addition, he ensured that the royalties from this title were consigned to the Red Cross - a decision that ensured Vice-Regal patronage.

 

On the left, we show a rare copy of The Enchanted Forest - illustrated

by Outhwaite and published by A & C Black, Ltd (London) in 1921. This

example shows the original plaid paper covered boards with blue cloth

back and pictorial title label paste-down.

 

Contemporary critiques from the British Weekly and the Spectator provide some insight into how The Enchanted

Forest was received:

This is a beautiful fairy story picture-book delightfully illustrated.

The artist merits the highest praise for her delicate, beautiful

drawings with their humorous touches.

British Weekly

 

Children will find the story charming, but it is really only a

thread upon which Mrs Outhwaite hangs a line of thirty-one

exquisite illustrations.

Spectator

 

 

Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints 

 

We have prepared sets of 16 Greeting Cards displaying each of Outhwaite's colour images for The Enchanted Forest and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear. Ordering one of those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to Cart" feature below and following the prompts provided with our Shopping Cart secured through PayPal. Multiple purchases will be consolidated by that feature and shipping and handling costs to any destination in the world are accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every US$200 worth of purchases.

 

Code: IRO EF CS(16)
Price: US$80.00

 

Similarly, we have prepared sets of 15 Greeting Cards displaying each of Outhwaite's major monotone images for The Enchanted Forest and on the right, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear. Ordering one of those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to Cart" feature below and following the prompts provided with our Shopping Cart secured through PayPal.

 

Code: IRO EF MS(15)
Price: US$75.00

 

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-in plates - in homage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century.

 

Hand-finishing is used to replicate the visual appearance of a tipped-in plate and the images are presented on

Ivory card stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or White card stock (in the case of monotone illustrations)

with an accompanying envelope. We have left the cards blank so that you may write your own personal

message.

 

Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some options

below. Of course, should you wish to discuss some customised options, we welcome your contact on any matter

through ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com.

 

In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful examples of the art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

 

 

The colour illustrations

 

Fairy Beauty looking over the Happy Valley

 

 

 A Fairy Frock Refreshments The Jazz Band

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C1 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C2 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C3 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF 14 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

The Butterfly Chariot

 

 

 Fairy-Beauty rocks a Babe Anne rides on a Nautilus Shell Drawn by Fishes

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C5 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C6 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C7 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C8 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

The Witch on her Broomstick

 

 

 The Witch's Sister on her Black Bat The Torn Wing Anne plays the Pipes

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C9 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C10 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C11 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C12 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

The Wee Sick Goblin

 

 

 Potty talks to the Forest Creatures Good-Bye to Potty Anne nearing Home

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C13 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C14 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C15 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF C16 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

 

 

 

The major monotone illustrations

 

Anne in the Enchanted Forest

 

 

 Anne meets the Rabbit-Boy The Waterfall Fairy Fairy Beauty plays a trick

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M1 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M2 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M3 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M4 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

On the way to the Fairy Party

 

 

 The Dance Anne crosses the Dark Pool Fairy Beauty scattering Stars

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M5 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M6 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M7 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M8 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Anne rides on the Heavenly River

 

 

 Anne and the Goblins Fairy Beauty alone at Night Dr Teddy-Bear at Home

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M9 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M10 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M11 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M12 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 
 

Potty to the Rescue

 

 

 The South Wind Fairy Flower Frocks  

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M13 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M14 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

Reproduction on 10x15" sheet

Code: IRO EF M15 10x15
Price: US$50.00

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

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