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A Childs Garden Of Verses

The Little Land
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Louis Stevenson's classic poetry volume, 'A Child's Garden of Verses' illustrated by Jessie Willcox
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board, Mixed Media

Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885. Northwest Passage, In Port, circa 1905, signed lower
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Boy with Pull Toy
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" (New York: Scribner's, 1905). A charming line
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20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Pen

Alcott's Old Fashioned Girl
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustrations of children. She illustrated "A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Louis Stevenson and numerous
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20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

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Charcoal, Board

Two Little Girls, Good Housekeeping Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, Heidi, A book of Old Stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a
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1920s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

The Wind 1944 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
The Wind 1944 Toni Frissell’s daugther Sidney on the beach as the Wind from A Child’s Garden of
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1940s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Wind 1944 Oversize Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
The Wind 1944 Toni Frissell’s daugther Sidney on the beach as the Wind from A Child’s Garden of
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1640s Modern Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Bobbing for Apples
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations for magazines such as
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20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Girl on Swing, Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many
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1920s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache

Scott's Antiques
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Scott's Antiques
Scott's Antiques
H 19 in W 23.85 in D 0.01 in
An Old Friend
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

An Old Friend
An Old Friend
H 11 in W 14.75 in D 0.01 in
Up in the Attic
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Up in the Attic
Up in the Attic
H 11 in W 14.75 in D 0.01 in
The Corner Drugstore
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

The Curiosity Shop
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

The Curiosity Shop
The Curiosity Shop
H 22.5 in W 19.25 in D 0.01 in
The Sporting Good Store
Located in San Francisco, CA
etchings illustrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Fireside Christmas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Fireside Christmas
Fireside Christmas
H 19.25 in W 25.25 in D 0.01 in
Dreamland Toys
Located in San Francisco, CA
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” at Whittington Press of England. He has also
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Dreamland Toys
Dreamland Toys
H 18.75 in W 25.75 in D 0.01 in
Good Housekeeping Cover, The Little Golfer
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations for magazines such as Collier's and
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1920s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Boy Playing Dress-Up, Story Illustration
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations for magazines such as
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20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Charcoal

Dream Blocks
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations
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Early 1900s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown
By Charles Demuth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Women and a Child on the Beach at Provincetown Unsigned. Watercolor on paper, c. 1934 A
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1930s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"The Glorious Flight - Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot" - Children's Book
By Alice and Martin Provensen
Located in Miami, FL
Hen (Random House, 1973) ~Maple Hill Farm content A Child's Garden of Verses (Simon and Schuster
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, Gouache

Double Portrait of Sir John Rivers 3rd Baronet of Chafford, and Lady Anne Rivers
Located in London, GB
Anne’s potential as wife and mother, recalling Proverbs, chapter 5, verse 18: “Let thye fountain be
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
By Jessie Gillespie
Located in Miami, FL
magazines including Life, The Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Mother and Child, McClure's
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1910s Victorian Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Procession Four girls with flowers - English Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
to her own devices to explore,[3] spent many hours in the enclosed courtyard garden, later writing
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1890s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Le Ministere De La Marine
By Charles Meryon
Located in New York, NY
illegitimate child of a travelling English physician and a dancer at the opera house, Charles only first
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1860s Other Art Style Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

Marina Núñez del Prado, Head, Patinated Bronze Sculpture, 1930s
By Marina Núñez del Prado
Located in New York, NY
and Child," sculpted in white onyx. Indigenous Bolivian cultures inspired much of her work. Marina
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Vintage 1930s Bolivian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

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Introducing Heidi
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and Watercolor on Board Signature: Unsigned "Introducing Heidi." Original illustration for page 11 of "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri (Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1...
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1920s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Watercolor, Board

Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
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1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Quarter Sawn Oak and Cast Iron Drawing Table
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is the quintessential architects drawing table. An articulating cast iron base and a beautiful quarter sawn oak plank drawing board. The table turns, moves up and down and tilts...
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Early 20th Century American Industrial Industrial and Work Tables

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Iron

Antique Art Deco Maxfield Parrish Print 'Dinky Bird', Circa 1920
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Art Deco antique "Dinky Bird" print after original by Maxfield Parrish, framed, circa 1920 Measures- 19.5''H x 14''W x 1.5''D Catalogue Note: Ask about DISCOUNTED DELIVE...
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The Light Refreshment - Nabis Oil, Seated Figures in Interior - Edouard Vuillard
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on board circa 1890 by French Nabis school painter Edouard Vuillard. The work depicts two seated ladies dressed in black with grey pinafores enjoying coffee tog...
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Swans /// Antique Female Artist Bird Ornithology Animal Landscape Watercolor Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Catherine Board (English, Active Early 19th Century) Title: "Swans" *Signed by Board lower right. It is also signed and dated by Board at lower right on verso Circa: 1820 Med...
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1820s Romantic Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934 8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. vii + 408, printed in Old Style type on wove paper; pen and ink drawings (33 head-pieces and 35 ...
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Early 20th Century American Books

Materials

Paper

Doggy Buffet, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Richard Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1957 Medium: Oil and Pencil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 23.50" x 20.75", Framed 29.50" x 26.50" Original cover illustration for The Saturday E...
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1950s Interior Paintings

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Art Deco Women Fashion Design Sketches 1920 circa Set of Three
Located in Milan, IT
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Drawings

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Paper

"Monhegan Island, Maine, " Edward Dufner, American Impressionism Landscape View
By Edward Dufner
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) Monhegan Island, Maine Watercolor on paper Sight 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Waterco...

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Figure in a Wide-brimmed Red Hat
By René Gruau
Located in Miami, FL
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Mixed Media, Pastel, Gouache, Board

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Edition, 1922
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
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Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Books

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Portrait of Laura Keppel, later Lady Southampton
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed, upper left: “Miss Laura Keppel” Provenance: Commissioned from the artist and by descent in the Keppel family estate, Lexham Hall, Norfolk, to: Major Bertram William Arnol...
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Portrait - Original Drawing by Georges Bastia - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pencil and pen drawing realized by Georges Bastia (1905-1980). Hand-signed on the lower right. With the description on the lower. Good conditions and aged w...
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Pen, Pencil

Morning Journal - A modern newspaper at a modern price Les maitres de l'affiche
Located in PARIS, FR
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

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Stevenson - Child's Garden of Verses - 1st Ed - Inscribed by Stevenson's Mother
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis. Title: A Child's Garden of Verses. Publisher: London
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Antique 1880s British Books

Materials

Fabric

A Game of Checkers, Collier's Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Old Stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many
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Early 1900s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

A Ray of Sunshine, Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations for magazines such as
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1910s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Charcoal, Gouache, Oil, Watercolor

A Girl with a Cat, Good Housekeeping Cover
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. She also painted a great many illustrations
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1930s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Charcoal, Gouache, Oil, Watercolor

Georgian Sampler, 1810, by Mary Peers with Country Scene
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
, silver and brown. Verse reads, 'THAT conscience must your life direct, In every thing you do; Nor must
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Antique 1810s English George III Tapestries

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Mother and Child Vintage Color lithograph Italian American Modernist Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Patricia, A Child's Garden of Verses, Two Years Before the Mast and others. Contributor: art critic, New
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vintage Oil Painting "A Day At the Museum" by Bertram Glover
Located in Buffalo, NY
illustrations for a book of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Child’s Garden of Verse edited by Lillian Walker Stephens
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1960s Realist Interior Paintings

Materials

Board

Oil Painting "Railroad Man's Daughter" Dated 1941 by Bertram Glover
Located in Buffalo, NY
illustrations for a book of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Child’s Garden of Verse edited by Lillian Walker Stephens
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1940s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1 Volume. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses. Bound in full red morocco. Gilt
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20th Century American Books

Materials

Leather

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A Childs Garden Of Verses For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of a childs garden of verses available on 1stDibs. Browse a selection of modern or Old Masters versions of these works for sale today — there are 4 modern and 1 Old Masters examples available. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add a childs garden of verses that pop against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of beige, brown, gray, green and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Jessie Willcox Smith, Toni Frissell, Alice and Martin Provensen, Charles Demuth and Jessie Gillespie are often thought to be among the most beautiful. Frequently made by artists working in board, etching and paint, all of these available pieces are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much are A Childs Garden Of Verses?

The average selling price for a childs garden of verses we offer is $10,000, while they’re typically $375 on the low end and $275,000 for the highest priced.