J. J. Grandville was the pseudonym of  French caricaturist and illustrator Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard. His early carreer consisted of regular contributions of highly satirical political caricatures for a series of Parisian periodicals. He garnered a great deal of popularity for this work but following the reintroduction of censorship of caricatures in France in 1835, [...]

Frank Cheyne Papé was a British illustrator of the “Golden Age” of book illustration. Born in 1878, there appears to be very little information available to us about his life and work. We know that his first work was around 1908. This early coloured work was similar in style and maybe influenced by artists of the 1890′s [...]

For those of you who don’t know, the Library of Congress recently took the unusual but comendable step of uploading an initial 3000 (and counting – now over 6,500) images from its vast collection to Flickr, the popular picture hosting site. The idea behind this move is to invite the public to tag the images [...]