Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Pictures for the Trade

Eric Ravilious
Golden Cockerel Press
1932
wood engraving
(cover of prospectus)
British Museum

Eric Ravilious 
Robert Gibbings as Ganymede
1931
wood engraving
(illustration for Golden Cockerel Press prospectus)
British Museum

Thomas Bewick
Moor Buzzard
ca. 1800
wood engraving
(book-illustration)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

Leonhard Beck
The White King
1517
woodcut and letterpress
(book illustration)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens
Plate from Opticorum by Franciscus Aguilon
ca. 1613
engraving
(book illustration)
British Museum

Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens
Plate from Opticorum by Franciscus Aguilon
ca. 1613
engraving
(book illustration)
British Museum

Basil Besler
Gemstones
1616
engraving
(book illustration)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck
The Abduction
1817
watercolor on paper
(illustration to poem of Gottfried August Bürger)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck
The Wild Hunter
1817
watercolor on paper
(illustration to poem of Gottfried August Bürger)
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Girolamo Porro
Emblem with Oyster
1586
etching
(book illustration)
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Johann Bergmann von Olpe (printer)
Ships of Fools
1497
hand-colored woodcut and letterpress
(book illustration)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Johann Heinrich Lips after Anton Raphael Mengs
Head of Christ
1777
etching
(book illustration)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Johann Heinrich Lips
Portrait of artist Benjamin West
1779
etching
(book illustration)
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Richard Hamilton
Stately Plump Buck Mulligan
1948
watercolor and ink on paper
(illustration for Joyce's Ulysses)
British Museum

Richard Hamilton
Leopold Bloom
1949
drypoint
(illustration for Joyce's Ulysses)
British Museum

Gayle Porter Hoskins
The Winning Chance by Elizabeth Dejeans
1909
oil on canvas
(book illustration)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

The Tree House

The pail droops on chain, rotten,
Where the well's been
Rinsed with bog, as round and round
The reed-weed rockets down Deer Island
Amid frosted spheres of acid: berry pick-
ing. All day long I watched the land break
Up into the ocean. Happened long ago,
And lost – what isn't – bits of jetty go
Their private ways, or sink, trailing water.
Little's left. Past this window where
My mother's basil drowned
In salad, I can see our orchard, balsams
Clenched around their birds. The basil flourished on
Neglect. Open my room, trees. Child's come.

– Louise Glück (1968)