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Commission finished for @horatioo!

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My favourite musical ever

ONLY BEHIND ME AND MY DICK/j

It's 2023 and I'm still crying over this scene

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Marbled Monday

This sunny Marbled Monday, as we here in Wisconsin wait for the weather to catch up to the seasons and feel spring-like, I’ve selected The Seasons by Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson (1700-1748). There have been many editions of The Seasons since its first publication as a complete series of four poems in 1730—this one was published by The Nonesuch Press in 1927. It features five illustrations by an artist simply identified as Jacquier, who I have been unable to otherwise identify. The images are copperplate engravings made by C. Sigrist that were hand colored using watercolor through stencils at The Curwen Press. 

The marbling is a very curly French curl or snail pattern, featuring red, blue, orange, cream, and a greenish-grey. This pattern is created by first dropping colors in to the water bath and then taking a comb with regularly spaced teeth and swirling it in the water bath to make the snail pattern. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Kent & Curwen Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear LFW

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Emma D’Arcy | Kent & Curwen ensemble | Wimbledon | 2024

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VOTE FOR SPIES ARE FOREVER OUR DIVORCED LIL GAY SPYS NEED TO WIN

MAY THE BEST DIVORCE WIN (Propaganda is encouraged)

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Study of a lady standing / Portrait of Miss Curwen / Portrait of Hamlet / Boy seated beneath a rock - George Romney

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Vincent Price characters having an evil relative that they look like who haunts them

• Nicholas Medina - Sebastian Media (The Pit And The Pendulum)

• Charles Dexter Ward - Joseph Curwen (The Haunted Palace)

• Asamad Van Ghoul - Vincent Van Ghoul (Scooby Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost)

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Xing Zhaolin for the KENT&CURWEN SS25 show at London Fashion Week

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Kent&Curwen Spring/Summer 2025

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Kent & Curwen SS25 RTW Look 45

Photographer: Filippo Fior

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Leather book harness by Kent & Curwen for Spring/Summer 2025

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Salvala - shot by Orograph / designs by Andrew Curwen

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making limbus company ocs (which im tagging as au characters bc theyre technically a limbus au of preexisting media)

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

THÉO SCHMIED

The French painter and illustrator Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964) was commissioned to produce watercolor illustrations for the 1950 Limited Edition Club (LEC) production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary. The watercolors were turned over to the workshop of master French wood engraver Théo Schmied (1900-1985) to be reproduced for the edition as these remarkable, multi-block color wood engravings.

Schmied's Swiss-born father François-Louis Schmied (1873-1941), also a wood engraver and formally trained in the book arts, established his Paris workshop in 1910 to produce deluxe, illustrated limited editions. Théo Schmied took over the management of his father's workshop beginning in 1924 and inherited the business after his father's death.

This edition was designed by Francis Meynell of the Nonesuch Press in London, with the text composed in Monotype Ehrhardt at the Curwen Press under the supervision of Ernest Ingham and printed letterpress at the Marchbanks Press in New York on specially-made paper bearing the title of the book as watermark by the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. The edition is limited to 1500 copies signed by Pierre Brissaud.

Click or tap on the alt-text for each image to see captions.

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Kent & Curwen Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear LFW