Annie French

Bride - Scottish Female Glasgow School Art Nouveau, Aubrey Beardsley

1900 Circa

The Dryads… Ancient beings of old growth forests, with wisdom of ages long forgotten, knowing much of what us busy folk have forgotten. The Forest of Arden is famously featured in S...

An original pen and ink by Barbara Macdonald 1892-1969, that was published on page 70 of the 1922 book, 'Princess Herminie and the Tapestry Prince,' written by Lee Ivatt. The second ...

A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...

Women illustrators were alive, well, and quite active in the early 20th century. Most of their production was associated with topics that dealt with the home, children or fairy tales. In this masterfully rendered work in pen and ink, Jacobs displays great technical skill in presenting three maidens dressing a beautiful female member of the Court wearing a tiara. Signed in a cartouche lower right From: Stella Mead, Great Stories from Many Lands, London: James Herbert and Co, 1936, page 78 " Red and White Roses" Provenance: Chris Beetles Work is elegantly matted and not framed. Helen Mary Jacobs was born in Ilford, Essex, the sister of the writer W.W. Jacobs; she studied art at the West Ham...

Louis Icart, After, French (1888 - 1950) - Faraway Gaze from La Dame aux Camelias, Year: of original: 1938, Medium: Hand-Colored Etching, Image Size: 7.5 x 5 inches, Frame Size: ...

Billet-Doux (L'incomunicabilité) is an original litography realized after Aubrey Beardsley in 1970. The drawing is part of a 1970 "Eyes Open" edition of "Les Erotiques de Beardlsey"...

Messalina and her Companion is a beautiful original print on paper realized by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Black and white lithograph. The artwork is the plate n. 26 from the portfolio Erotiques de Beardsley. Editions Les Yeux Ouverts 1970, Paris. Specimen n°112 of an editon of 469. The artwork includes copy of the portfolio cover. Good conditions. Original title: Messaline The artwork shows an illustration realized by the artist in 1895 for the Sixth Satire , the most famous of the sixteen Satires by the Roman author Juvenal written in the late 1st or early 2nd century. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A...

Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Madame Bovary, Year: 1929, Medium: Color Etching, Signed in Pencil, Image Size: 16 x 20.5 inches, Frame Size: 40 x 43 inches, Reference: Figu...