Frontispiece Gallery

Frontispiece to Volpone by Ben Jonson, 1898. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley

Frontispiece to Volpone by Ben Jonson, 1898. Volpone, a greedy and rich childless Venetian, rubs his hands in front of his riches. Illustration for an edition of Ben Jonson's eponymous comedy play, published by Leonard Smithers. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]

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The Garden of Eden, 1629, (1944). Creator: Unknown

The Garden of Eden, 1629, (1944). Adam and Eve are dwarfed by large flowers and plants, with a river, fruit trees, and the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary behind. Title page from "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris" (Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise) by apothecary John Parkinson. The full title is Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers: which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp : with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sause vsed with vs : and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land : together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues'. Published in "English Gardens", by Harry Roberts. [Collins, London, 1944]

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Frontispiece for "The Life of the Virgin", in or after 1630

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