Figure Drawing: pre-raphaelite

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Charles Robinson - Art Nouveau Illustrations for The Sensitive Plant

The Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley, as illustrated by Charles Robinson and published by William Heinemann, London/J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia circa 1911. With introduction by Edmund Gosse. Printed by the Ballantyne Press, London.

Illustrated edition of Shelley's romantic poem showing both Art Nouveau and Pre-Raphaelite influences in the illustrations.

The Sensitive Plant illustrated by Charles Robinson, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 22 copies for sale at Abebooks.com

One copy is for sale on Ebay Click here to see it for sale on Ebay

Another copy at Amazon.com: The Sensitive Plant

Additional examples of Charles Robinson's work at John Coulthart's blog:

Charles Robinson's Alice's Adventure inWonderland

The Art of Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

Another example at Lines and Colors.

Google Books copy of A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Google Books copy of Lullaby Land, Songs of Childhood with illustrations by Charles Robinson.

Here is the poem: The Sensitive Plant

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Amy Crehore wrote a post about this collection of Pre-Raphaelite images from the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Collection, Little Hokum Rag: Amazing Online Gallery of Pre-Raphaelite Images. The Birmingham Museum and Art Galery is in West Midlands, England. The Online Collection is called preraphaelites.org.