Thursday, June 25, 2009

Evelyn Paul Illustrations












The work of Evelyn Paul. Scanned from old books in my collection.

14 comments:

  1. It is so nice to have you back! And with such stunning images to boot! I play the harp and the images of the harp are especially attractive! I have an old book on English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards with similar illustrations. Simply divine! Anita

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  2. Hi Anita
    I keep forgetting to look up Edwards' images, but will do so - they sound beautiful! Work has kept me busy and I lost track of time, thus the lull in posts.

    ~Lisa

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  3. these are all so beautiful.......thanks :-)

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  4. Gorgeous, Lisa! I just love stunning antique books, and I bet your collection would blow me away.

    I saved these images to my "just plain gorgeous" file :)

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  5. Grace
    Did you follow the link with the blurb about her?...stating that "Her work is clearly much inspired by that of Rossetti...".

    She seems to have a thing for red-heads too.

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  6. All beautiful, but the colors in that first one are sublime.

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  7. Jen,
    "For indeed", that is your color palette in the first image, little lady!

    Her line-art has a very Kelmscott Chaucer quality.

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  8. Oh! No I didn't. But I can definitely see the Rossetti influence...especially in pictures 3 and 4.

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  9. Jno
    Me too!! Other than Howard Pyle (and Crane and Goble and Rackham) she is my favorite illustrator.

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  10. Thank you so much, once again, for sharing such beautiful art. I particularly love the lady on the balcony!

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  11. Mary,
    I do believe that is my favorite one also!

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  12. wonderful, thank you for the introduction!

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