Art, Symbol & Imagination
King Love: A Christmas Greeting
A tall robed figure carries a small child beneath an architectural opening. Other children gather at the sides while branches and leaves soften the straight frame. Fell’s clear black lines turn the greeting into a ceremonial scene of welcome and affection.
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H. Granville Fell. "King Love: A Christmas Greeting" [editorial title]. In Children's Books and Their Illustrators, Gleeson White. The Studio special winter number1897-98. Complete historical illustrated survey through printed page68, original illustrator index and all four listed supplements. Matching scanned original wrapper; UNC library scan., 1897, Offices of The Studio. Source scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/white-king-love
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H. Granville Fell. King Love: A Christmas Greeting. Children's Books and Their Illustrators. Scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/white-king-love