Did Pixie draw the Minors at Smallhythe?

[Teheuti]

See examples of previously unknown works by PCS at Ellen Terry's home, Smallhythe. Pixie was Ellen Terry's foster daughter and visited there often. Could she have done much of the work on the RWS deck there?

http://marygreer.wordpress.com/2010/03/28/3123/

 

[Lillie]

Wonderful!

I have always liked her art better, in fact, than I liked the actual deck!
She was very good, wasn't she!

I love a lot of art from around that time period. It has such a wonderful fairy tale aura about it. Very real and very unreal at the same time.
Lovely.

And what a beautiful house!
I want to live there

 

[Teheuti]

I love a lot of art from around that time period.

Then, you'll probably enjoy the art from the Camelot Project site. I found it interesting that the RWS deck, even more than Pixie's other drawings, seem to fit in with other Grail/Arthurian/Camelot-style artwork:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/artmenu.htm

For instance:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/MH9.htm
and
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/fhpalo.htm
and
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/pylegrl.htm
and many more.

 

[Lillie]

Yay!!!

What a site!

Thank you

I'm book marking that!
I'll be looking at those pictures for weeks to come (if not months or years!)

I love stuff like that.

A friend introduced me recently to the work of Kay Nielsen, very lovely!
Not Arthurian, but incredibly beautiful.
http://nielsen.artpassions.net/

Yes, I agree, the RWS images do have a very Arthurian feel to them. I hadn't really thought about that before, but I can see it clearly now that you mention it.

Thanks again for the links!
Brilliant!

 

[Zezina]

Indeed! They're wonderful!

*Z*

 

[roppo]

Yes, I think the the background of RWS Ace of Pents is actually the garden of Smallhythe. And the youtube video is splendid. Thank you very much, Teheuti!

 

[Teheuti]

Yes, I think the the background of RWS Ace of Pents is actually the garden of Smallhythe. And the youtube video is splendid. Thank you very much, Teheuti!

I think you're right about the Ace of Pentacles - although she seems to have used her imagination as much as actual details of the environment in her drawings.

BTW, Kim Arnold who runs the UK Tarot Conference and the Psychic Café is the one to thank. http://www.tarotconference.co.uk/

 

[Cerulean]

I also came across this book of Camelot period books three days ago...

http://www.doverpublications.com/zb/samples/46816x/art40.htm

The dates are great, as well

Aubrey Beardsley's Le Morte D'Arthur was 1893 to 1894 (black and white)

William Ernest Chapman (New York and Europe)'s Story of Sir Galahad was 1908 - in color

Walter Crane's King Arthur's Knight was 1911 - in color

William Russell Flint (Russell Flint, known later as Sir William Russell Flint) published Le Morte D'Arthur 1910-11 (four volumes) - 48 illustrations in color

HJ Ford's Book of Romance (Victorian England) with Arthurian tales was 1902 - color and black and white

William Pogany was Parsifal, 1912 - in color

Howard Pyle published n the U.S. 1903, 1905, 1907, 1910 for four King Arthur books...black and white

It seems a Celtic Revival!

Cerulean