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The Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau Collection

Thank you for spending some moments of your time to consider our offerings - we expect that, like us, you will be

captivated by the beauty, power and symbolism of these objects.

Magnificent examples of artwork arising from the Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau traditions are shown here. In

particular, we hold an extensive range of antique and vintage illustrations from artists including:

- Gustave Doré; - Erté; - Arthur Rackham; - Kay Nielsen; - Edmund Dulac; - Willy Pogány; - Maxfield Parrish; - Sulamith Wülfing; - Harry Clarke; - Virginia Sterrett; - Jessie M King; - Thomas Mackenzie; - Warwick Goble; - Dugald Walker; - Violet Brunton; - Reginald Knowles; - Frank C Papé; - Ida Rentoul Outhwaite; - Paul Woodroffe; - Adrienne Ségur; - Evelyn Paul; - Edward Burne-Jones; - William Russell Flint; - Lefler and Urban; - Sidney Meteyard; - Léon Bakst; - Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale; - Sidney H Sime; - the Petit Collection; and - the Vintage Advertising Collection.		The Heart of the Lotus Edward Burne-Jones        The Annunciation Erté
		"Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! now I hear them, - ding-dong, bell." Warwick Goble     Spring Maxfield Parrish

Wonderful images will greet you from tales like Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer-Night's Dream,

The Tempest, The Arabian Nights, Arthur and His Knights, Tales from Hans Anderson, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,

The Dreamer of Dreams, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Alice in Wonderland, Dante's La Vita Nuova, Wagner's

The Ring of Niblung, Poe's The Bells and Other Poems and Goethe's Faust. This list goes on, of course - and you will

enjoy every moment of considering the prints on offer.

It contains more than 1000 genuine antique and vintage illustrations from some of the greatest Golden Age artists.

English, French, German, Australian, Danish and American artists are represented, including Gustave Doré, Erté, Arthur

Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogány, Maxfield Parrish, Sulamith Wülfing, Harry Clarke, Virginia

Sterrett, Jessie M King, Thomas Mackenzie, Warwick Goble, Dugald Walker, Violet Brunton, Reginald Knowles,

Frank C Papé, Ida Rentoul Outwaite, Paul Woodroffe, Adrienne Ségur, Evelyn Paul, Edward Burne-Jones, William

Russell Flint, Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, Sidney Meteyard, Claude Shepperson, François Louis Schmied,

Léon Bakst, Felix de Gray, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and Gaston Priou.

We have developed a range of Giftware that includes images reproduced from many of the 1st Edition plates in our

collection to ensure the most accurate form, line and colour possible. We have utilised a high definition capture and

reproduction technique for the images - in contrast to the low definition representation necessary for this website. The

illustrations are available as cards, infants' clothing, T-shirts and unmatted, matted or framed prints (8x6", 10x8", 12x10",

15x10" and 30 x 20" images sizes). Pricing starts at US$4 for single Gift Cards (US$18 for select packs of 6) and 10 x 8"

prints (double-matted and framed) begin at US$60. Further details on those reproduction images are available at

the Giftware section of this site.

Gustave Doré

One of 100 images Doré's contribution to Michaud's History of the Crusades	One of 76 images Doré's contribution to Dante's Inferno	One of 50 images Doré's contributions to Milton's Paradise Lost	One of 60 images Doré's contributions to Dante's Purgatory and Paradise

In this portion of the Collection, we are able to show some work from the genius of Gustave Doré - one of the

marvels of 19th Century art.

The range of Pagan and Christian imagery exhibited through his work belies a colossal imagination and a magnificent

apprehension of all possible conditions of human experience. His lofty insight into the mysteries of Spiritual existence

as reflected from Earthly actualities entitle him to be classed among the great creative geniuses of all time.

Images are shown from his contributions to Michaud's History of the Crusades, Dante's Inferno and Purgatory and

Paradise and Milton's Paradise Lost.

Erté

One of 15 colour images Erté's work during the period 1916-1926	One of 12 colour images Erté's contributions to Le Mystere Des Pierreries (1926)	One of 27 colour images Erté's work during the period 1927-1938	One of 26 colour images Erté's Alphabet (1927-1967)

One of 10 colour images Erté's Numbers (1968)	One of 7 colour images Erté's "Seven Deadly Sins"	One of 12 colour images Erté's "Zodiac"

Our selections from Erté are drawn from a variety of high Art Nouveau images including a selection of his work

produced between 1916-1926, his contributions to Le Mystere Des Pierreries (1926), a selection of his work produced

between 1927-1938, various suites, including his "Alphabet", "Numbers", "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Zodiac" suites and

examples of his later work.

Arthur Rackham

One of 50 colour images	One of a number of monotone images	One of 13 colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Rackham's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens		Rackham's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

One of 40 colour images	One of a number of monotone images	One of 15 colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Rackham's A Midsummer-Night's Dream		Rackham's Undine

One of 34 colour images	One of a number of monotone images	One of 30 colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Rackham's The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie		Rackham's Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods

Rackham's colour contribution	One of a number of monotone images	One of 16 colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Princess Mary's Gift Book		Rackham's The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

One of 8 colour images	One of a number of monotone images	One of many colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Rackham's The Springtide of Life		Rackham's Comus

One of 16 colour images	One of a number of monotone images	One of a number of multitone images
Rackham's Hawthorne's Wonder Book

One of 20 colour images	One of a number of monotone images
Rackham's The Tempest

Select from exquisite images created by Arthur Rackham.

Fairies, Gods, Godesses, mythical water maidens, Angels and babies are all about.

Illustrations are available from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Midummer-Night's

Dream, Undine, The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods, Undine, The Romance of

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Springtide of Life, Comus, Hawthorne's Wonder Book and The Tempest.

Kay Nielsen

One of 24 colour images	One of 15 monotone images	One of 24 colour images	One of 22 monotone images
Nielsen's In Powder and Crinoline		Nielsen's East of the Sun and West of the Moon

One of 22 colour images	One of 5 monotone images	One of 21 mixed monotone and colour images
Nielsen's suite of images for One Thousand and One Nights

One of 12 colour images	One of 22 monotone images	One of 12 colour images	One of many monotone images
Nielsen's Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen		Nielsen's Hansel and Gretel: And Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm

One of 12 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of 8 colour images	One of 50 monotone images
The superb French-language version of Nielsen's Hansel and Gretel: And Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm - Fleur-de-Neige et d'Autres Contes de Grimm - with additional monotone illustrations contributed by Pierre Courtois		Nielsen's Red Magic

The images within the Kay Nielsen Collection illustrate traditional fairy tales, Norse myths and legend from a variety

of cultures. You will find treasures as diverse as armoured Vikings on horseback in battle, Norse maidens riding polar

bears, a Viking lad snuggled up with the Sultan's daughter and knights battling dragons and mermaids.

Illustrations are available from In Powder and Crinoline, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Tales from Hans

Andersen, Hansel and Gretel: And Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm, Red Magic. In addition, we are able to

show extraordinarily rare illustrations prepared by Kay Nielsen, including some of those included in his "Book of

Death" suite, Perrault in Powder and Patch: Famous and Familiar Stories in their Proper Guise, an unpublished life

of Joan of Arc and A Thousand and One Nights.

Edmund Dulac

One of 50 colour images Dulac's Stories from The Arabian Nights	One of 40 colour images Dulac's The Tempest	One of 20 colour images Dulac's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám	One of 8 colour images Dulac's My Days with the Fairies	One of 32 images Dulac's Stories from Hans Andersen

One of 28 colour images Dulac's The Bells and Other Poems	Dulac's contribution to King Albert's Book	One of 19 colour images Dulac's Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross	One of 6 colour images Dulac's The Dreamer of Dreams

One of 2 colour images Dulac's The Stealers of Light	One of 14 colour images Dulac's Tanglewood Tales	One of 10 colour images Dulac's The Kingdom of the Pearl	One of 12 colour images Dulac's A Fairy Garland

One of a number of images Dulac's contribution to Robes of Thespis	One of 9 colour images Dulac's Gods and Mortals in Love	One of 2 colour images Dulac's The Daughters of the Stars	Dulac's contribution to The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

One of 6 colour images Dulac's The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche	One of 6 colour images Dulac's The Masque of Comus

Our selections from Edmund Dulac are drawn from a variety of sources including Stories from the Arabian Nights,

Shakespeare's The Tempest, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, My Days with the Fairies, Stories from Hans Andersen,

Poe's The Bells and Other Poems, King Albert's Book, Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, The Dreamer

of Dreams, The Stealers of Light,Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales, The Kingdom of the Pearl, A Fairy Garland, Robes of

Thespis, Gods and Mortals in Love, The Daughters of the Stars, The Queen's Book of the Red Cross, The Marriage of Cupid

and Psyche and The Masque of Comus. We are also able to show a number of other rare images, including images of

Dulac's "Scenes from Bible History" suite.

Willy Pogány

One of 31 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of 16 colour images
Pogány's Faust		Pogány's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

One of many colour images	One of many multitone images	One of many monotone lithographs
Pogány's Tannhäuser

One of many colour images	One of many multitone images	One of many 4-colour lithographs	One of many duotone images	One of many monotone images
Pogány's Parsifal

One of many colour images	One of many multitone images	One of many 4-colour lithographs	One of many duotone images	One of many monotone images
Pogány's Lohengrin

One of 12 monotone images	One of 12 monotone images	One of 18 monotone images	One of 8 colour images	One of many monotone images
Pogány's The Kasidah of Haji Abdu ElYezdi	Pogány's The Light of Asia	Pogány's The Song Celestial	Pogány's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

One of 8 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of many colour images	One of many monotone images	One of many monotone images
Pogány's Sonnets from the Portuguese		Pogány's The Golden Cockerel		Pogány's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Our selections from Willy Pogány are drawn from his early career and include masterpieces such as Faust, Rubáiyát of

Omar Khayyám, Tannhäuser, Parsifal and Lohengrin. Stunning images are available in monotone, duotone and

multitone, in addition to full-process colour illustrations. We are also able to show images from his later work,

including The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El Yezdi, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Sonnets from the Portuguese, The Golden

Cockerel and further illustrative interpretations of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

Maxfield Parrish

One of 3 colour images	One of many colour images	One of 8 colour images	One of 2 monotone images
Parrish's Dream Days suite	Parrish's Ring of Nibelung suite	Parrish's Phœbus on Halzaphron suite

One of 4 colour images	One of 9 colour images	One of 17 half-tone images	One of 17 colour images	One of 11 half-tone images
Parrish's L'Allegro suite	Parrish's The Great Southwest suite		Parrish's Italian Villas and their Gardens suite

One of 8 colour images	One colour images	One of 12 colour images	One of 10 colour images
Parrish's Poems of Childhood	Parrish's The Vigil-at-Arms	Parrish's The Arabian Nights	Parrish's A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales

One of 8 colour images	One of 2 colour images	One of 23 colour images
Parrish's The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics	Parrish's The Dream Garden	Parrish's The Knave of Hearts

Our selections from Maxfield Parrish are exquisite illustrations prepared for a variety of titles, including Poems of Childhood,

The Arabian Nights, A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics and The Knave of Hearts and

very rare vintage colour illustrations prepared for Dream Days. Images are also shown from suites of illustrations he contributed to

a range of publications including The Century Magazine and Scribner's Magazine.

Sulamith Wülfing

One of 6 colour and 6 monotone images Wülfing's Der Mond ift aufgegangen	One of 9 colour images Wülfing's Christian Morgenstern	One of 12 monotone images Wülfing's Die Truhe	One of 10 colour images Wülfing's Der Leuchter

One of 8 colour images Wülfing's Die Schwelle	One of 8 colour images Wülfing's Die Kleine Seejungfrau

 

Our selections from Sulamith Wülfing include colour and monotone work from her earlier and most famous collections,

including Der Mond ift aufgegangen (The Moon has come up), Christian Morgenstern, Die Truhe (The Chest), Der Leuchter

(The Shining), Die Schwelle (The Threshold) and Die Kleine Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid).

Harry Clarke

One of 16 colour images	One of 25 monotone images	One of 12 colour images	One of 14 monotone images
Clarke's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen		Clarke's The Year's at the Spring

One of 8 colour images	One of 24 monotone images	One of 8 colour images	One of 70 monotone images
Clarke's Tales of Mystery and Imagination		Clarke's Faust

Our selections from Harry Clarke include colour and monotone work from his earliest work Fairy Tales by Hans Christian

Andersen - in addition to The Year's at the Spring, Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Faust. The Collection from Clarke

is also notable for the prolific contributions he made to the later titles by way of monotone and duotone illustrations.

Virginia Sterrett

One of 8 colour images	One of many monotone images
Sterrett's Old French Fairy Tales

One of 10 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of a pair of multitone images
Sterrett's Tanglewood Tales

One of many colour images	One of many monotone images
Sterrett's Arabian Nights

Our selections from Sterrett includes her colour, monotone and multitone contributions to Old French Fairy Tales,

Tanglewood Tales, and Arabian Nights.

Jessie M King

One of 6 colour images	One monotone images	One of 6 colour images	One of 8 monotone images
King's Isabella, or the Pot of Basil		King's Seven Happy Days suite

Our selections from Jessie M King include her colour and monotone illustrations included in the Seven Happy Days suite,

in addition to Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.

Thomas Mackenzie 

One of 8 colour images	One of 12 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of 12 colour images	One of many monotone images
Mackenzie's Arthur and His Knights	Mackenzie's Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme		Mackenzie's Hassan

The images selected from Thomas Mackenzie strikingly illustrate Arthurian legends, Persian myth and Orientalist themes.

Illustrations are available from King Arthur and His Knights, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme and Hassan.

Warwick Goble

 

One of 32 colour images	One of 40 colour images	One of 32 colour images	One of 2 monotone images
Goble's The Water-babies: A fairytale for a Land-baby	Goble's Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales	Goble's The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

One of 16 colour images	One of 16 monotone images
Goble's The Fairy Book of Poetry

Select from beautifully delicate fantasy images by Warwick Goble.

Fairies and fantasy creatures are illustrated wonderfully in Goble's contributions to The Water-babies: A fairytale for a

Land-baby, Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales, The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and

The Fairy Book of Poetry.

Dugald Walker

One of 8 colour images	One of many monotone images
Walker's Stories for Pictures

One of 12 colour images	One of 42 monotone images	One of a pair of multitone images
Walker's Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

One of 5 colour images	One of 17 monotone images	One of a pair of multitone images
Walker's Dream Boats and Other Stories

One colour image	One of 17 monotone images	One of a pair of multitone images
Walker's Rainbow Gold

One of a number of colour images	One of many monotone images	One of a number of colour images	One of many monotone images
Walker's Snythergen		Walker's Squiffer

One colour image	One of 12 monotone images
Walker's Orpheus with his Lute

Stunning vintage images are shown from the American artist, Dugald Walker. Those illustrations are drawn from his

contributions to Stories for Pictures, Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, Dream Boats and Other Stories, Rainbow

Gold, Snythergen, Squiffer and Orpheus with his Lute.

Violet Brunton

One of 16 colour images	One of 12 colour images	One of a number of colour images	One of 56 monotone images
Brunton's Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach		Brunton's Green Magic

One of a 8 of colour images	One of 56 monotone images
Brunton's Silver Magic

A selection of Brunton's idiosyncratic images is shown from from her contributions to Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus

the Son of Sirach, Silver Magic and Green Magic.

Reginald Knowles

One of many monotone images	One of 6 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of 6 colour images	One of many monotone images
Knowles' Legends from Fairy Land	Knowles' Norse Fairy Tales		Knowles' Old-World Love Stories

The images appearing in this portion of the Collection are drawn from Knowles' colour and monotone contributions to Legends from

Fairy Land, Norse Fairy Tales and Old-World Love Stories.

Frank C Papé

One of 16 colour images	One of many monotone images	One of 8 colour images
Papé's The Gateway to Spenser - Stories from the Faërie Queen		Papé's The Story Without an End