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Literature & Theatre Art Prints

Literature and theatre art prints: illustrations, engravings and paintings made for or based on books, poems, plays and opera. They include William Blake's illustrations for Dante, Virgil and his own Songs of Experience, John Martin's mezzotints for Milton's Paradise Lost (1820s), Henry Fuseli's scenes from Greek tragedy, J. J. Grandville's satirical engravings for Un autre monde (1844), and etchings by Félicien Rops and James Ensor.

A large group is illustrations for Jules Verne's novels by Alphonse de Neuville, Édouard Riou, Henri de Montaut and Émile Bayard (1860s–1870s). It also includes Persian miniature painting from the Shahnameh tradition.

The selection focuses on images made to accompany a text, so each print relates to a specific poem, novel, epic or stage work.

The black-and-white engravings and novel illustrations suit studies, libraries and reading corners; a group of several works well along a bookcase wall or hallway. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.

Le jardin féerique, from Mother Goose — Maurice Ravel
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Battle Between Iranians and Turanians by Muhammad al-Qivam al-Shirazi — Armoured horsemen clash across a crowded Persian battlefield
Amazing Stories, April 1928 by Frank R. Paul — A giant eye filled with gears, airships and crowds of tiny figures
Weird Tales, July 1927 by C. C. Senf — A grey-haired man creeps up behind a dancing woman in a pink dress
Weird Tales, March 1928 by C. C. Senf — An old man with a knife watches a kissing couple through a window
Amazing Stories, August 1928 by Frank R. Paul — A man in a red flying suit soars over a lawn and an arched building
Weird Tales, February 1928 by C. C. Senf — A man aims a pistol at a snarling panther-shaped table
Amazing Stories, July 1927 by Frank R. Paul — A woman stands inside a glowing glass egg wired to a control desk
Amazing Stories, November 1927 by Frank R. Paul — A huge-headed creature in a glass cylinder turns two rays on a man
Weird Tales, November 1927 by C. C. Senf — An aviator carries a limp woman across a deck above breaking surf
Amazing Stories, September 1927 by Frank R. Paul — A giant spotted flower snatches a man in khaki into the air
An Eve in this Eden by Charles Robinson — A young woman holds a pink rose on terracotta garden steps
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, plate 35 by Willy Pogany — An old figure in a striped robe cries out at two black rats
‘Let The Fireworks Begin,’ Said The King by Charles Robinson — A bearded king in an ermine robe greets two bowing courtiers
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, plate 14 by Willy Pogany — A fanged figure in a spotted headscarf lunges beneath a dark tree
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, plate 5 by Willy Pogany — Finger raised, an elder confronts a figure in a plumed turban
Abu-l-Hasan awakens in the bed of the Khalifeh by Edmund Dulac — Abu-l-Hasan sits up in a canopied bed as the court bows low
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, plate 38 by Willy Pogany — A stooped old man in white bends nose to nose with a veiled woman
She Will Pass Me By by Charles Robinson — Eyes closed, a lady in a rose-patterned gown sweeps past a youth
The King Of The Mountains Of The Moon by Charles Robinson — A jewelled king in pink silks sits on a broad green dais
The village club by Charles Maurice Detmold — Turbaned elders share a water pipe beneath bare spreading branches
Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales, plate 20 by Willy Pogany — A turbaned figure parts a curtain on a lamplit chamber
The Little Boy He Had Loved by Charles Robinson — A small haloed child in a long yellow gown under a white tree
Ilsée, princesse de Tripoli by Alphonse Mucha — A green-robed woman crowned with stars shelters two young figures
Eviradnus by Eugène Grasset — A grey-bearded knight hurls a man in red across a torch-lit hall
Léo-Bert by Georges de Feure — A man in a tailcoat flings one arm up under a slanting name
Le rêve: Mlle Lobstein by Alphonse Mucha — A dancer in a blue corset and white tutu turns her head in profile
Jules Massenet’s Werther by Eugène Grasset — A kneeling lover and a cluster of children in two grey roundels
Les Capitales du Monde. Hachette & Cie. editeurs by Eugène Grasset — A red-haired woman in a turreted crown raises a title banner
Services secret – maquette d’affiche – Lucien Guitry et Berthe Bovy by Alphonse Mucha — A woman in white clings to a moustached officer before a painted globe
Rama by Alphonse Mucha — A jewelled young woman stands before a bearded king on his throne
La carrière d’un navigateur – Albert Prince de Monaco by Paul Berthon — A two-masted schooner under full sail on a rose-brown sea
The Sea Beast (1926) — A whale rears from green waves and upends a rowing boat of men
Hamlet: Asta Nielsen (1921) — A cloaked figure holds a dagger at arm's length
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) — A man raises a glass as a green creature writhes beside him
The Black Cat (1934) — An arched black cat stares between two red-lit faces
L'Assassinat du Duc de Guise (1908) — A caped man in a cap stands over another lying on the floor
To Kill a Mockingbird (1963) — Torn paper scraps, jacks and marbles on weathered wood
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) — A man in a green tweed jacket studies a pistol through a lens
Fyrst Myschkin: Asta Nielsen (1921) — A woman's face in soft black tone, her eyes two dark blocks
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) — A dancer kicks high with a tambourine as a white goat rears
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) by Karoly Grosz — A red face stares wide-eyed over a woman in a pale gown
Moje Uniwersytety (1948) by Tadeusz Trepkowski — A brown hat on a stick stands over an open book and a bundle
Spies: Fritz Lang (1928) by Glen Cravath — A man bends over a woman beneath two glowing lamp-eyes
Lumières Kinematograf (1897) — A theatre crowd gawks at a screen where a man with a hose wears a halo
Lucretia Lombard (1923) — A woman recoils as a dark hand meets hers over a curling wisp of smoke
To Have and Have Not (1944) — A giant face and a woman in a satin gown against a cream ground
The Man Who Laughs (1928) — A masked man in a black cloak holds a woman in a red gown
Komödianten: Asta Nielsen (1913) by Ernst Deutsch-Dryden — A pale clown face with shadowed eyes above a wide white ruff