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Your Price: $ 495.00
Item Number: sow001
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Condition: Used
Manufacturer: Millicent Sowerby
12 1/4inch X 14 1/4inch matched quartersawn oak Arts & Crafts style frames containing 6inch X 8inch original prints, one signed, by Milicent Sowerby, labeled on reverse, Kahn's Art Gallery, Easton, PA, each in very fine condition
Millicent Sowerby was born in Northumberland, England, the daughter of designer and illustrator John G. Sowerby. When Sowerby was young, her father wrote and illustrated books for children, copying the style of Kate Greenaway, later turning to landscapes.
In an attempt to help their family’s finances, Sowerby and her sister Githa collaborated on children’s books. Githa wrote the stories and verses while Sowerby illustrated them for over twenty years. Sowerby was also a prolific illustrator of children’s picture post cards, depicting scenes from Shakespeare, and Kate Greenaway type girls. Later, she designed thirty sets of cards for a yearly series called ‘Postcards for the Little Ones’.
When Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland went out of copyright in 1907, like other illustrators, Sowerby was commissioned to illustrate it
Well into her eighties, Sowerby remained a watercolorist and painted flowers.
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