The Ghost MonkSomething for Easter Sunday (sort of): 'The Gates Of Heaven' by Sidney Sime, reproduced in The Strand Magazine for April 1908.
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Here's the Crooked Man about to go his Crooked Mile (with his Crooked Cat) in an illustration by Sidney Sime (Pall Mall Magazine 1901).
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I've got a friend coming to stay for a few days, so this is me currently:
(Sidney Sime, 1908)
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'There Was A Crooked Man': the great Sidney Sime's take on the old nursery rhyme, as published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1901.
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Something silly to start off the week: an odd interpretation of a well-known nursery rhyme by the ever-bizarre (and favourite of mine) Sidney Sime. Scanned from a 1901 edition of Pall Mall Magazine.
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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI« To the Church in Ephesus », c. 1918
by Sidney Sime (British artist. 1865–1941)
Illustration for "The Apocalypse II 1-7"
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Iain MerrickMy biggest regret is that probably nobody saw all the art I picked out for the higher levels! The artwork is by once-famous now-obscure Sidney Sime, who I discovered via the similarly once-famous now-obscure fantasy writer Lord Dunsany. Sime illustrated Dunsany's books, and I saw some Sime pieces when I visited Dunsany Castle back in the summer: https://mastodon.scot/@iainmerrick/110822693361960206 Definitely need to visit the Sime gallery some day and see the originals. #SidneySime
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Attached: 1 image Odd connections… I was looking up Sidney Sime, who illustrated most of Dunsany’s early fantasy stories. (My new ambition is to find a nice Sime-illustrated book!) Wikipedia says “the most famous collections of Sime work belonged to Lord Dunsany and Howard de Walden”. The latter owned Dean castle, in my home town of Kilmarnock! That family found themselves in a similar situation to Dunsany’s, rattling around an old empty castle, and solved it by donating the castle and grounds to the town.