UNDER
WATER
This is one of the biggest tests of the illustrator's capacity to evoke
the natural world - and many have failed the task.
01 from Les Silences de Colonel Bramble, illustration
in pochoir by R.Moritz. Editions KRA Paris 1929 7 x16cms
02 Heath
Robinson and K.R.G. Browne How to be a Perfect Husband
Hutchinson, London, undated c1937
03 John Vernon Lord, illustration to The Nonsense Verse of Edward
Lear, Cape, London 1984,
There was an Old Person of Sheen,
Whose expression was calm and serene;
He sate in the water, and drank bottled porter,
That placid Old Person of Sheen.
04 editorial
photograph US 1947
05 a character
from Lionel Feininger's Kin-der-Kids, Chicago Tribune,
1906
06 Vegetius Renatus,
De Re Militari Libri Quator, Perier, Paris, 1553, an
underwater warrior from the classic military handbook.
07 Jacob
Leupold, Theatrum Machinarum Hydrotechnicarum, Leipzig
1724. An image from the classic book on diving and techniques of underwater
exploration.Flavius Vegetius, Vier Bucher der Ritterschaft.... a celebrated
military handbook with a section on underwater warfare, and general spoiling
with schnorkles. Published in Augsberg by Steiner in 1534.
08
from an advert for the Dow Chemical Company April 1942
, 23cms by 23cms.
09 FROM
"The Mermaid" Dugald Stewart Walker's illustrated edition of
the Fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson , Harrap London
c1919;
FISH TANKS, BRIGHTON 2018
JUNIOR TRUE BOOK OF THE OCEANS, Mary Gehr 1964
MEISHI TOKKAIDO 1850
ROY
WILSON ANNUAL COVER C1936
WONDERS
OF THE DEEP, The Wonder Book of What to do c1935
A
SWORDFISH ATTACKING A DIVER 1893
Cabirol,
Constructing under water, Paris c1858
Schlott,
Design for a Diving Bell 1664
Vegetius,
De Re Militari, Paris 1532, equipment for a diver
William Beebe, HALF MILE DOWN
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