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Fairy Tale Illustrations by Katharine Sturgis & Joyce Mercer

      

Sturges

"The King lifted up his scepter & said, 'Be gone!'" An illustration by Katharine Sturges for "The Brook in the King's Garden" in Raymond MacDonald Alden's Why the Chimes Rang & Other Stories (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906, 1908, 1924).

      

Sturges

"Valma lay sleeping under a great water-plant." Katharine Sturges' illustration for "The Castle Under the Sea" in Why the Chimes Rang & Other Stories.

   

Mercer

"The statue in the harbor." This is Joyce Mercer's frontispiece, also used for the pictorial binding, for Netta Syrett's Rachel & the Seven Wonders (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1923). There are five stunning color plates in all, plus many black&white illustrations which are, if anything, even finer, having a PreRaphaelitish classicalness about them.

      

Mercer

"A little boy walked in front of the procession" Joyce Mercer's illustration for "The Temple of Diana" in Netta Syrett's Rachel & the Seven Wonders a connected series of time-traveling wonder-tales.

      

   

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