V and W ABC Book Fifty Flies
by Reynold Jay
Title
V and W ABC Book Fifty Flies
Artist
Reynold Jay
Medium
Painting - Water Color
Description
A restored page from our series of ABC turn-of-the century books. It was not uncommon to use one color. Very often artists were employed to hand color the art as well.
Raphael Tuck & Sons was a business started by Raphael Tuck and his wife in Bishopsgate in the City of London on October 1866,[1] selling pictures and greeting cards, and eventually selling postcards, the latter being the most successful. This included children's books that were illustrated by some of the best artists of the age.
Their business was one of the most well known in the 'postcard boom' of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Their contributions left a lasting effect on most of the artistic world. During The Blitz, the company headquarters, Raphael House, was destroyed including the originals for most of their series. The company never fully recovered.
We will be restoring several ABC books and listing them here as they would make wonderful art for any child's bedroom wall. Art is in Public Domain as it is over one hundred years old. Circ 1900-1902
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April 13th, 2015
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