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Emma Florence Harrison

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT // Emma Florence Harrison: An Enigmatic Early 20th Century Illustrator Posted by Eden in Artist Spotlights / Drawing & Illustration tagged with Illustration On Mar 29 2014

Little is known about the personal life of Emma Florence Harrison (1877–1955), an English artist known for her romantic, Pre-Raphaelite style. Even the years of her birth and death (either 1925 or 1955) are disputed. There is however some information on her working life. I hope you enjoy this window into her career as an illustrator!

Illustration from Maiden Song (1910) by Emma Florence Harrison Florence worked professionally as Florence Harrison. She may have had a formal art education. One source said that she attended the Glasgow School of Art where Charles

Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, and Margaret & Frances Macdonald studied. It is documented that she exhibited her art at the Royal Academy in London from 1887 – 1891.

Illustration from Rapunzel (1914) by Emma Florence Harrison In 1905, Florence’s career as an illustrator began with a commission from Blackie and Sons. The publishing house hired her to illustrate a children’s book entitled Rhymes and Reasons. The book was so well received that she was commissioned to do another

entitled The Rhyme of a Run. Florence’s work was featured in numerous books thereafter — including books written by the likes of Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and William Morris. According to one source, she received £100 (approximately £8500 or $1400 at today’s values) for In the Fairy Ring. There is no record that she was ever married, so it is likely that she made a living through her career as an artist and illustrator.

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

You can find a number of online sources featuring her illustrations from publications including:                 

Rhymes and Reasons (1906) The Rhyme of a Run – 21 plates (1907) In the Fairy Ring – 24 plates (1908) Poems of Christina Rossetti – 36 plates (1910) Dream of Fair Women and Other Poems by Tennyson – 8 plates (1910) Tennyson’s Guinevere and Other Poems – 24 plates (1912) Elfin Song: A Book of Verse and Pictures – 12 plates (1912) Early Poems of William Morris – 16 plates (1914) Tales in Rhyme and Colour – 23 plates (1916) Tinkler Johnny by Agnes Grozier Herbertson (1916) Poems by S. Ferguson – 4 b & w plates (1916) The Man in the Moon and Other Verses (1917) The Pixy Book – 12 plates (1918) House of Bricks by Agnes Grozier Herbertson – 4 plates, 20 b & w (1918) Godmother’s Garden by Netta Syrett – 4 plates (1920) Beautiful Poems (1923) Light of Love

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison If you want to look into collecting one of the books she illustrated, I would suggest that you take a look at what is available on ebay. It also appears that original works sometimes come up for sale through auction houses (although be warned that they may be upwards of $10,000). More of her illustrations are included below!

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration from Elfin Song by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration from Dream Land (1910) by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

Illustration by Emma Florence Harrison

Arthur Scheiner

Golden Age Bohemian: Artuš Scheiner

Early-twentieth century illustrations by Artuš Scheiner (1863 Benešov – 1938 Prague)

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

For the last few years, my flickr friend Josef Skrhola has been documenting the work of Artuš Scheiner, scanning 384 images from at least ten different books. I've pulled some of my favorites for this post.

A Cotsen Children's Library exhibit calls Scheiner "a prolific Bohemian artist, whose work was widely published in Czechoslovakia and Austria" and adds that "except for his illustrations for Božena Nemcová's The Disobedient Kids and other Czecho-Slovak Fairy Tales (1921), Scheiner's work is not well known in the English-speaking world."

Cobbling some facts from a Google Translation of the Czech wikipedia entry: Scheiner, working as a financial clerk in Prague, began drawing as a hobby. He was completely self-taught. Soon magazines in Austria, Germany, and Hungary began publishing his drawings. From 1897 he began publishing in various Czech magazines, and 1902 saw the release of his first book of fairy tale illustrations.

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Under Command Of Magic by J. Š. Kubín (1920s) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1924) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Romance About The Faithful Friendship Of Amis And Amil, a novel by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for František Ruth's Ancient Fairy-Tales (1920) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for František Ruth's Ancient Fairy-Tales (1920) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for František Ruth's Ancient Fairy-Tales (1920) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Romance About The Faithful Friendship Of Amis And Amil, a novel by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Romance About The Faithful Friendship Of Amis And Amil, a novel by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illu s. by Art uš Sch ein er for Bo žen á Ně mc ová 's Dis obe die nt Ki ds.. . see the ori gin al flic kr post by Josef Skrhola

Caption: All at once, she saw little stars falling in her path way. She wanted to see what they looked like. They were yellow, bright and shining. She began to gather them up in her hands, tossing them up and down. "Oh, if I only had an apron!" Why there was an

apron! Then she collected the little yellow stars in her apron, and growing very tired, fell asleep.

Cove r illus. by Artu š Schei ner for Bože ná Něm cová' s Diso bedie nt Kids. .. see the origi nal flickr post by Josef Skrh ola

Illus by Artus Scheiner for Kulihrásek v hlubinách morskych / Kulihrásek in the Depths of the Sea (1932) via Cotsen Children's Library

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Vyšehrad by Julius Zeyer see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Otesanek! Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Zlatovláska / Princess Goldie by Karel Jaromír Erben see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Zlatovláska / Princess Goldie by Karel Jaromír Erben see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Zlatovláska / Princess Goldie by Karel Jaromír Erben see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Zlatovláska / Princess Goldie by Karel Jaromír Erben see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Fairy Tales Of Božena Němcová see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for Fairy Tales Of Božena Němcová see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Illus. by Artuš Scheiner for King Mouselet And Prince Youth - The Bold Dwarfs' Adventures (1905) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Wonderful decorations by Artuš Scheiner for King Mouselet And Prince Youth (1905) see the original flickr post by Josef Skrhola

Cover illus. by Artuš Scheiner for King Mouselet And Prince Youth by T. E. Tisovský

Cove r illus. by Artu š Schei ner for Tales from Shak espea re (1923 ) see the origi nal flickr post by Josef Skrh ola