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Persephone stood up in the chariot and plucked the fruit from the tree, from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Willy Pogany (1921)
The Red-Cross Knight by Richard Westall, illustration for Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene
English, 18th or 19th century
brown ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum
Source: britishmuseum.org
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Illustrations by Henri Matisse for Florilège des Amours de Ronsard (Anthology of Love by Ronsard). Published in 1948 by Albert Skira. National Gallery of Australia: title page, 3a, 7a, 14a.
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Wrapper, title page, and colophon of Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]. Illustrations by Henri Matisse. Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia.
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Series of three illustrations of Ithaque (Ithaca) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Series of six illustrations of Polyphème (Polyphemus) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Series of four illustrations of Circé (Circe) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Series of four illustrations of Calypso by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Series of six illustrations of Ulysse et Nausicaa (Ulysses and Nausicaa) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.
Source: artsearch.nga.gov.au
Illustrations by Alphonse Mucha for Anatole France’s Clio. Published by 1900 by Calmann Lévy.
Source: enchantedbooklet.com
Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe in French translation by D’Amyot and Courier. Illustrations by Aristide Maillol. Published in 1937. Via Sotheby’s.
Source: sothebys.com
Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, with lithographic illustrations by Aristide Maillol. Published in 1935. Via Sotheby’s.
Source: sothebys.com
#The Sotheby's description is in French so I'm not entirely clear if this is *just* the illlustrations or if they accompany Ovid's text.#rare books#illustration#Aristide Maillol#Ars Amatoria#Ovid#book#nude#female nude#lithograph#lithography#book illustration#private collection#cover#Isn't the cover of this beautiful?