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Man standing over cowering woman, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham

Man standing over cowering woman, 1952. Shirley Markham (1931-1999) studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central School of Art in London from 1950-1952. The writer, artist, poet, and illustrator Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was one of her tutors, and her style of drawing was also influenced by other British illustrators such as Edward Ardizzone, Quentin Blake and Edward Bawden. Markham spent time in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy, and also visited Rome, sketching classical buildings. After graduating from Central, she worked as a graphic designer, producing book illustrations, cartoons for comics, menus and programmes. She gave up her promising career however when she got married in 1957. Middle-class women at that time were expected to devote their energies to bringing up children and running the home, and despite her obvious talent, she lacked the confidence to return to illustration. Her portfolio remained in the family attic for many years, but now her work is published here for the first time

© Shirley Markham Collection / Heritage-Images

The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840, (1911). Artist: Eugene Delacroix

The Entry of the Crusaders Into Constantinople, 1840. This painting depicts an episode of the Fourth Crusade, in which the Crusaders abandoned their plan to invade Muslim Egypt and Jerusalem, and instead sacked the Christian city of Constantinople. After an oil painting by Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863). Original work housed in the Louvre, Paris. From A History of Painting Vol. VI [T. C. and E. C. Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1911]

© The Print Collector

Stirrup Spout Vessel with Raised Design of a Man Attacked by a Bird, 100 B.C./A.D. 500

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