The Birth of Venus by Henry Courtney Selous (1852)
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Shakespeare Weekend
Working our way through the Shakespeare Collection, our next stop is The Plays of Shakespeare edited and annotated by Charles (1787-1877) and Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-1898) and illustrated by H.C. Selous (1803-1890). The collection was published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., likely in the mid to late 1860s and consists of three volumes each arranging the plays into comedies, histories, and tragedies.
Scholarly English authors Charles and Mary Cowden Clark refer to the collection as the “People’s Edition” stating their intention for the work to be read within the household and among family circles. Keeping young readers in mind, the plays are annotated for a novice Shakespearean audience and Titus Andronicus is omitted from the collection due to its “grossness”. Additionally, the collection is heavily illustrated by Selous with wood engravings, providing valuable imagery for those unfamiliar with Shakespeare’s plays.
Volume One contains all of Shakespeare’s comedies and opens with a full-page frontispiece of the author.
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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern
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Aphrodite by Henry Courtney Selous 1874.
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From "Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Puck finds the little purple flower- by English painter and illustrator Henry Courtney Selous, 1864
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Henry Coutney Selous Scene from Romeo and Juliet, 1856
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Aphrodite, Henry Courtney Selous, 1874
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I was just accepted to two master’s degree programs in Art History! I am so excited!!
And thank you all so much for following & supporting my little art and art history blog! I so appreciate all the reblogs, likes, and activity ♡
To celebrate, I offer you The Birth of Venus, 1852, by Henry Courtney Selous
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Henry Courtney Selous - Romeo and Juliet.
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The Birth of Venus
Jean Honoré Fragonard, Henri Gervex, Henry Courtney Selous, John Bulloch Souter
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Mighty aphrodite rising out of the sea foam
Henry Courtney Selous (1852)
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┊ ➶ 。˚ "mighty aphrodite rising out of the sea foam" henry courtney selous (1803-1890)°
happy april 3, this is dedicated to aphrodite !! blessed be ♡
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Venus by Henry Courtney Selous (1852) 🐚🌸
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"As Venus, pedestaled on half-shell
Shawled in blond hair and salt"
Sylvia Plath, Heavy Women (1961)
Henry Courtney Selous, Aphrodite (1874)
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“Run your morning bath in sea foam
Soak your milky skin in the tide
Little pearl, you think you're in gold
But I can see the dirt in your lines”
I love that this song is a narration of Hephaestus’ thoughts/emotions towards Aphrodite.
Credits:
Lyrics: “Alrighty Aphrodite”, Peach Pit
Art 1: “The Birth of Venus” by Henry Courtney Selous, 1852.
Art 2: “Lady holding a dish of pearls” by Pierre Mignard (cropped detail)
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Joan of Arc
By Henry Courtney Selous
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