lotusgreen/graphic design

Luke Limner Our Tom Cat and His Nine Lives
(Ackermann, 1848?)
012807.de.69 11x14.5 cm


Our Tom Cat

The binding designs of John Leighton





Issued under Leighton's pseudonym of Luke Limner, this is one of a number of his drawings which was printed by lithography on paper between 1845 and 1851. The overall effect of the design, showing a number of cats chasing fish and birds amongst foliage, with the larger figure of Tom Cat seated pensively amidst his books, demonstrates the contrasts achieved by the use of the red tint against the black.

Li'l Gal, by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dodd Mead 1904. Miss Armstrong designed the covers, title pages, and page designs for three collections of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. These books are notable for the black and white photographs, taken by the Hampton Institute Camera Club, that illustrate almost every page. Title page and frontispiece below.

La grand-mère du petit Chaperon file au rouet

Illustration de Félix Lorioux pour la couverture du Petit Chaperon rouge. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1920. (30,7 x 23,7 cm)
BnF, Estampes et Photographie (Ka Mat 6A, boîte 4) © ADAGP Paris 2001

Lorioux renouvelle complètement l'iconographie du Petit Chaperon rouge par la représentation de scènes inédites telles la confection de la galette par la mère ou la grand-mère au rouet. La dernière image, inspirée de la version des frères Grimm, figure le loup au bout d'une corde langue pendante, tandis que le Petit Chaperon rouge mange une galette en compagnie de lapins.



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