Description | English: Illustration by Louis D. Fancher for the story “A Letter from Home” by Edward Boltwood |
Date | 1909 |
Source | Munsey’s Magazine (https://archive.org/details/munseysmag40editmiss/page/n121/mode/2up) |
Author | Louis D. Fancher |
Category Archives: Fictional Characters
The Man in the Plaid Ulster Was Talking to the Clerk at the Desk, by L. D. Fancher
The Raven, by E. H. Wehnert
Description | English: “The Raven,” by E. H. Wehnert, illustrating the poem by Poe |
Date | 1856 |
Source | The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksedg00poeeiala/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | E. H. Wehnert |
Avaunt!
Description | English: “Avaunt! Approach not the Victim of thy Treachery, nor contaminate by thy unhallowed presence, the Sanctitude of this Assylum”: Frontispiece to a novel published in Pittsburgh in 1808 |
Date | 1808 |
Source | The Lawyer, or, Man as he ought not to be (https://archive.org/details/lawyerormanasheo00watt/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Illustration credited to “Baralett”; engraver illegible |
The Wife of Bath
Description | English: “Ye sovereign Wives! give ear and understand, Thus shall ye speed and exercise Command.” Illustrating Alexander Pope’s rendition of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue. |
Date | 1751 |
Source | The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. (https://archive.org/details/worksofalexander02popeiala/page/n119/mode/2up) |
Author | J. Wale, artist; C. Mosley, engraver |
The Topaz, by E. T. Parris
Description | English: “The Topaz,” by E. T. Parris |
Date | 1836 |
Source | Gems of Beauty (https://archive.org/details/GemsOfBeautyDisplayedInASeriesOfTwelveHighlyFinishedEngravingsFrom/parris-e-gems-1836-RTL003048/page/n53/mode/2up) |
Author | Edmund Thomas Parris |
Salammbô by Paul Sinibaldi
Description | English: Salammbo by Paul Sinibaldi |
Date | 1893 |
Source | The Art of the World illustrated in the paintings, statuary, and architecture of the World’s Columbian Exposition (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008842896/page/n47/mode/2up) |
Author | Jean-Paul Sinibaldi |
Romeo and Juliet by Hans Makart
Description | English: Romeo and Juliet, engraved from a painting by Hans Makart |
Date | 1886 |
Source | The Portfolio (https://archive.org/details/portfolioh17hame/page/38/mode/2up) |
Author | Hans Makart |
Faust in His Laboratory, by Frédéric Boissonnas
Description | English: Faust dans son laboratoire par Frédéric Boissonnas |
Date | 1899 |
Source | La photographie est-elle un art ? (https://archive.org/details/laphotographiees00lasi/page/10/mode/2up) |
Author | Frédéric Boissonnas |
Svengali and Trilby
Description | English: Svengali in control of Trilby, from an article on the spiritual origin of hypnotism in a 1908 magazine |
Date | 1908 |
Source | The Live Wire (https://archive.org/details/the-live-wire-v-05n-01-1908-08-ufikus-dpp/page/72/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Originally two illustrations on facing pages.