V&A Illustration Awards 2011
The V&A Illustration Awards celebrate the best illustration published over the last year. Original artwork from the…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2010
The 2010 V&A Illustration Awards prize-giving ceremony took place in the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galle…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2009: Published Category
The 2009 Published award categories were judged by Miss Patricia Routledge CBE - actress, Lionel Shriver - author a…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2009: Student Category
Part of the V&A Illustration Awards, the Student Illustrator category offers prizes for unpublished illustration. A…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2007: Published Category
The 2007 published award categories were judged by comics writer and artist Dave Gibbons, Mark Gouldie from ITV Cre…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2007: Student Category
The student category was judged by illustrator Olivier Kugler, and academic and illustrator Geoff Grandfield. The A…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2006: Published Category
The 2006 published award categories were judged by Professor Sir Peter Blake - Artist and pioneer of British Pop Ar…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2006: Student Category
The student category was judged by illustrator and former winner Sara Fanelli , illustrator and former winner Danie…
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V&A Illustration Awards 2005: Student Category
The Student Illustrator of 2005 received £1300 and the commended students £300 each.
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V&A Illustration Awards 2005: Published Category
In the published awards, the Overall Winner received £2,500. Category First Prize winners each received £1,000 and …
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Illustrations for Dickens's novels
Some of the outstanding illustrators and artists of the day were recruited to provide images for Dickens's novels, often producing illustrations at short notice for forthcoming chapters.
Beatrix Potter: nature's lessons
From the age of eight Beatrix Potter was studying animals and insects very carefully, sketching them in her book and recording minute details. She was a keen observer of nature and this carried across to her work. Not only were her animal illustrations accurate in their illustration, but her books also show that she was a realist when it came to nature: she knew animals kill other animals, that life was full of strong instincts and potential threat.
Mrs Loudon & the Victorian garden
Jane Loudon was to Victorian gardening what Mrs Beeton was to cookery. Her beautifully illustrated books on gardening and plant identification sold in their thousands and women all over the country were enthused enough by them to take up gardening as a hobby. She was one of the most successful of a number of talented women botanical illustrators who had mixed fortunes during their lifetimes. Now highly regarded, many of their works are in the collection of the National Art Library.
Biography of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) is still one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors. She wrote and illustrated 28 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over 100 million copies. Born in Kensington, London, she later moved to Hill Top Farm in Cumbria and on her death bequeathed it, along with 13 other farms and over 4000 acres of land, to the National Trust.
British watercolours 1750-1900: illlustration into narrative
The popularity and success of the watercolour societies attracted many illustrators, such as Charles Green, into the field of watercolour painting. Green established his reputation with his illustrations to the novels of Charles Dickens, such as 'Little Nell mending the Puppet's Dress', from The Old Curiosity Shop.
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