Published in 1913 by George Allen & Company Limited (London),
The Birth of the Opal followed the successful
critical reception of Daphne Allen's artwork in A Child's Visions. In his Introduction, Walter
Ellis provides the
following description of this collection of Allen's
illustrations:
A favourable reception accorded by the Press
and the public to the drawings by
Daphne Allen illustrating the Christian story,
which were recently published under
the title of "A Child's Visions", and to the
original sketches when exhibited at the
Dudley Galleries and at the Children's Welfare
Exhibition, has encouraged her
friends to produce this companion volume "The
Birth of the Opal".
The first part of the book consists of short
fairy stories written by the artist herself,
accompanying and explaining certain of the
drawings; the latter part consists of
drawings for which she did not furnish any
explanation, and I have done my best
to supply selections from the poets which
suggest similar line of thought or
imagination. It must be clearly understood that
the drawings were in no way
suggested by the poems or by any outside
agency' they are the pure fruit of the
child's own fancy, done as the spirit moved
her, without any purpose of publication.
The colour and monotone illustrations throughout The
Birth of the Opal were all prepared while Allen was
14 years of age or younger. Following her debut with A
Child's Visions, The Birth of the Opal shows the earlier
examples of Allen's work in a delightful manner.
Copies of The Birth of the Opal are rare and the
delicate images from Allen are wonderful.
Our Greeting Cards, Posters and Prints
We have prepared sets of 12 Greeting Cards displaying
colour images from The Birth of the Opal (1913) and on the
left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear. Ordering one of
those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to Cart" feature below and following
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Code: DA BO CS(12) Price: US$60.00
When presented on Greeting Cards, these
images are prepared as tipped-on
plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted
approach typical
of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades
of the 20th Century.
Hand-finishing is used to replicate the
visual appearance of a tipped-on plate and the images are presented
on
Ivory
card stock with an accompanying envelope. We have left the cards blank so that you may write your own
personal message.
Should you wish to order a Poster or Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some options
below. Of course, should you wish to
discuss some customised options, we welcome
your contact on any matter
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