Henry Ospovat is a young Russian artist residing in London. He has done some superb decorative work for the sonnets and poems of Shakespeare published by John Lane. His book-plates are precious bits of decoration worthy the adoration of all lovers of the beautiful. There have been only a few reproductions of them. The book-plate number of “The Studio” shows several and Fincham’s “Artists and Engravers” lists two.
Arthur and Jessie Guthrie, 1898
James and Maud Robertson, 1898
John and Jessie Hoy, 1898
Arthur Guthrie, 1898
Walter Crane
Charles Rowley
James Hoy
James Hoy
Frank Iliffe Hoy
John and Jessie Hoy (second design)
George Moore
A. Emrys Jones
Fred Beech
J. H. Reynolds
T. C. Abbott
Frank and Marie Hoy
ARMAND RASSENFOSSE
Armand Rassenfosse is a resident of Liege, therefore, presumably, a Belgian and a subject of the German Empire. But as stone walls do not always a prison make, so frontiers do not always mark the nationality of art and letters. Mr. Rassenfosse is distinctly French in his feeling and artistic point of view. Perhaps I should rather say Parisian, for it is of the Latin Quartier and the Beaux Arts that his work breathes. His designs are almost entirely of nude femininity and his method of expression the etching. He has made some eight or ten charming bits, full of life and chic—I was going to say, frou-frou, but that would be a misnomer, for his models are innocent of gowns or lingerie. Their spirit and beauty of execution is high, but as book-plate designs—well, it’s a bit like champagne for breakfast.
Alex. von Winiwarter
Alfred Lavachery, 1890
M. R. (Marie Rassenfosse)
A. R. (Armand Rassenfosse)
Alb. Mockel
H. v. W. (Hans von Winiwarter)
Three designs without names
D’Alb. Neuville
LOUIS RHEAD
The illustrator of “Pilgrim’s Progress” and the “Idylls of the King” needs no introduction to the average book-lover, and the hearts of the poster-collectors throb at his name. Mr. Rhead is an American of English birth and a resident of one of the suburbs of greater Gotham. His decorative work has been long and favorably known, and his book-plates can but add to his reputation. He has done but fifteen, and two of these are yet to be reproduced, but some examples of his work are in most collections.
Gertrude Tozier Chisholm
James Henry Darlington
Samuel Moody Haskins
Le Roy W. Kingman
Frank J. Pool
Louis Rhead (symbolic)
Louis Rhead (fishing)
Katharine Rhead
W. H. Shir-Cliff, 1897
Jean Irvine Struthers
Stephen S. Yates
David Turnure
Ivy Club (Princeton University)
Rector Kerr Fox
George Weed Barhydt