The Green Sheaf

roppo

Got it!

I think I'm a good hunter. This time, a true self portrait of PCS!

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/critic06.jpg

It was hidden in the 1900 July issue of "The Critic" with two other works of hers which shall be shown next week at my website.

I'm now waiting for the arrival of some old magazines and ephemerals, PCS-related. It's a joyful world!

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"The Strand Magazine" 1908 June issue arrived today and gave me another Pixie pictures and infos!

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/strand02.jpg

The show must go on...
 

Teheuti

Does anyone else seem to have problems getting to Roppo's
http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/ pages? I keep getting "timed-out" or "server not responding" no matter which browser I use with my high-speed dsl.

Any suggestions?

Mary
 

roppo

Hello, Teheuti,

No, I see no problem with my "grimoir.blog", by IE or FireFox. The blog is being provided by OCN the Japan's leading ISP and there has been no report of traffic jam for them these 24 hours. Sorry I can do nothing from my side.

Anyway the blog is simply my storehouse for the heavy files and images. Now you can see all the "Critic" and "Strand" images at my official website.

for "Critic" images,
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~elfindog/pcsworks.htm

"Strand". Scroll down a little.
http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~elfindog/pcsworks2.htm

You can read original accompanying texts too.
 

roppo

premiere

This time I think I found PCS works not mentioned even in Dr Melinda Boyd Parsons's "To All Believers", Mr Kaplan's "Encyclopedia III" nor Mr Frank Jensen's "Story of WS Tarot".
And the works are big, hand-colored and really cool Shakespearean.

PCS founded in 1904 a "Green Sheaf School of Hand Colouring". It was a sort of bussiness project which undertook "small editions of books, programmes, cards, etc for private theatricals and dances..." I believe the orders she could get were not many. The folio-sized "The British Empire Shakespeare Society" was among the few. Today I received it and found four exellent large hand-coloured pictures in it. I danced, yelled, running around my house like a mad man as usual.

The president of the Society was Sir Henry Irving, and many PCS's friends were the members, Cecil French, Hartcourt Williams, etc. So they ordered Green Sheaf School to produce coloured illustrations for their annual report which was to be sent to St Louis Exhibition. PCS did her best.

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/BESS01.jpg

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/BESS02.jpg

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/BESS03.jpg

http://grimoire.blog.ocn.ne.jp/doll/files/BESS04.jpg

They are to be shown officially at my website next Thursday morning (JST).
 

Cerulean

Now those are glorious...

These are gloriously pretty and detailed...I've never seen such works of art better reproduced.

If you ever do an alternative selection of PCS's scenes for a tarot, I'd love to see it as well.

Cerulean
 

Ukkonen

Wow.. thank you so much, Roppo - again..!!
 

rota

These finds are true gems! Thank you, Roppo!

Now we know a little of what PCS would have wanted to see done with the tarot images. Remember her lament about the poor colors the lithographers gave the deck? These colors would have been more to her liking.

It's so wonderful to peek inside her portfolio! These are other drawings, for other purposes, but the work is the same. The same lines, the same faces, even some of the same details and motifs to be found in the deck that's as familiar to most of us as our own hands.

There's already enough here to put together a book or folio of Pixie work, as an illumination to those who want more beyond the deck.

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Debra

What a wonderful find, Roppo!

No wonder you are dancing! :D
 

rota

great stuff! wonderful finds!

the artwork is like a mixture of Beardsley line and early Matisse color, through an Art Nouveau lens. she really was the perfect choice for a set of tarot deck images!
 
RWS drawings in "Card-Reading" by Minetta The outfit of Mr. 2 of Pentacles