Arthur Rackham: The Hesperides

 

John Milton
Comus, 1634

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/19819/19819-h/19819-h.htm

Arthur Rackham's original book illustration of the Hesperides, mythical nymphs of the evening, shows the trio encircling the tree with the golden apples and singing. Parts of the dragon Ladon, who guards the golden apples, may be seen just outside the fence. The superb image appeared in Heinemann's 1921 edition of John Milton's 1634 masque Comus. The artwork is available from Lucius Books in York, but it may cost you a golden apple.

Arthur Rackham
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George Price: Off to Georgette's Laundromat

Bookseller James Cummins offers a second piece of original cartoon art by George Price. It is from the collection of publisher James H. Heinemann and is priced at $2,000. It was published in the New Yorker in 1985. I defy anyone to make sense of that picture taped to the wall.

George Price, "I'll be at Georgette's Laundromat and Bar-and-Grill."
Original artwork for the New Yorker, January 21, 1985, page 37

http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/24031/new-yorker-magazine-art-george-price/new-yorker-cartoon-original-ink-and-colored-wash-drawing-signed-geo-price-and-captioned-in-the

George Price, "I'll be at Georgette's Laundromat and Bar-and-Grill."
The New Yorker, January 21, 1985, page 37

George Price, "I'll be at Georgette's Laundromat and Bar-and-Grill."
The New Yorker, January 21, 1985, page 37

Note:  More posts about George Price are on view here.

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George Price: The Start of the Season

James Cummins, Bookseller offers original New Yorker artwork by George Price from the legendary collection of publisher James H. Heinemann. Price's details are worth noting, as always. I assume it is the wife's mother who inhabits this drawing, as the husband's mother wouldn't be funny at all. The rabbit ears on the television set affirm that this is one of the increasingly rare households which by 1988 did not have cable. One can't blame the bookseller for assuming this drawing is from the previous decade although, in the words of Casey Stengel, "You could look it up." Or was it James Thurber?

Cummins follows the nearly universal practice of describing Price's medium as "ink and colored wash." I'm going to stop saying it soon, but the bluish medium is actually Ben-Day, and it reproduces as tone in the published work.

Interestingly, the Condé Nast Store also claims to have "Original artwork available for this print!" A quick check of the Condé Nast website reveals that they claim to have the original artwork for nearly every published print and that simply can't be true.

George Price, "And here goes the gun signalling the start of the season."
Original artwork for the New Yorker, September 12, 1988, page 27

http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pages/books/24032/new-yorker-magazine-art-george-price/new-yorker-cartoon-original-ink-and-colored-wash-drawing-signed-geo-price-and-captioned-in-the

"Original artwork available for this print!"

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/And-here-goes-the-gun-signalling-the-start-of-the-season-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8478288_.htm

George Price, "And here goes the gun signalling the start of the season."
The New Yorker, September 12, 1988, page 27

George Price, "And here goes the gun signalling the start of the season."
The New Yorker, September 12, 1988, page 27

Note:  More posts about George Price, almost all of them incorrectly mentioning Ben-Day, can be found here.

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