Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2011-2012 archive
This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2011 and 2012. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
2011
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70-year old Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf in 1928.
Image: Atelje Jaeger, Stockholm
Statue of Minnie the Minx in Dundee, Scotland city centre.
Image: Ydam
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"Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid." Illustration for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies in charcoal, water, and oil. (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916), p. 236.
Image: Jessie Willcox Smith
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Memorial to Cædmon, St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby, North Yorkshire, Great Britain. (image details)
Image credit: Richard Thomas
Plate I of Henry Holiday's original illustrations for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, a nonsense poem written in 1874 that tells the story of ten individuals who cross the ocean to hunt the Snark. In common with other Carroll works, the meaning of the poem has been queried and analysed in depth. It is divided into eight "fits" (a pun on the archaic fitt meaning a part of a song, and fit meaning a convulsion) and is by far Carroll's longest poem. (image details)
Image credit: Henry Holiday
Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, 1553. The image blends Persian poetry and Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature. (image details)
Image credit: Unknown artist
Peter Rabbit and family, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) (image details)
Image credit:Beatrix Potter
Raggedy Ann and Andy (1919), illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, meet for the first time. (image details)
Image credit: Johnny Gruelle
2012
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Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyama-dera
Image: Suzuki Harunobu
American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs.
Image: J. Edward B. Greene
48-year old Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky in 1988.
Image: Anefo / Croes, R.C.
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