Portal:Literature/Selected picture archive/2011-2012 archive

This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Literature in 2011 and 2012. For past archives, see the complete archive page.

2011

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January 2011
 


70-year old Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf in 1928.
Image: Atelje Jaeger, Stockholm


February 2011
 


Statue of Minnie the Minx in Dundee, Scotland city centre.
Image: Ydam


April 2011
 


"Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid." Illustration for Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies in charcoal, water, and oil. (New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916), p. 236.
Image: Jessie Willcox Smith


May 2011
 


Memorial to Cædmon, St Mary's Churchyard, Whitby, North Yorkshire, Great Britain. (image details)

Image credit: Richard Thomas


August 2011
 
Old book bindings at the Merton College, Oxford library



September 2011
 


Plate I of Henry Holiday's original illustrations for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, a nonsense poem written in 1874 that tells the story of ten individuals who cross the ocean to hunt the Snark. In common with other Carroll works, the meaning of the poem has been queried and analysed in depth. It is divided into eight "fits" (a pun on the archaic fitt meaning a part of a song, and fit meaning a convulsion) and is by far Carroll's longest poem. (image details)

Image credit: Henry Holiday


October 2011
 


Illustration from Jami's Rose Garden of the Pious, 1553. The image blends Persian poetry and Persian miniature into one, as is the norm for many works of Persian literature. (image details)

Image credit: Unknown artist


November 2011
 


Peter Rabbit and family, from Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) (image details)

Image credit:Beatrix Potter


December 2011
 


Raggedy Ann and Andy (1919), illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, meet for the first time. (image details)

Image credit: Johnny Gruelle


2012

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February 2012
 


Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyama-dera
Image: Suzuki Harunobu


March 2012
 


American naturalist and essayist John Burroughs.
Image: J. Edward B. Greene


August 2012
 


48-year old Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky in 1988.
Image: Anefo / Croes, R.C.


September 2012
 


Japanese author Kenzaburō Ōe





October 2012
 


Illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark





November 2012


Advances in technology have exerted an influence over the scope of literature throughout history.