Shantanu Meets Goddess Ganga by Warivick Goble

Warwick Goble (22 November 1862 – 22 January 1943) was a British illustrator. He was educated and trained at the

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and the Westminster School of Art. He specialized in

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s and exotic scenes from Japan, India and Arabia. He illustrated

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' ''

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'' – among his first published illustrations, soon to be followed by a suite for ''The Book of Baal''. He also provided illustrations for magazines, including '' Pearson's Magazine'', illustrating a number of early

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stories, including several by Frederick Merrick White.

Selected works

Books illustrated: * Samuel Rutherford Crockett, ''Lad's Love'' (Bliss Sands, 1897) *

, ''The War of The Worlds'' (Heinemann, 1898) * Mrs. Molesworth, ''The Grim House'' (Nisbet, 1899) * Alexander van Millingen, ''Constantinople'' (Black, 1906) * Francis A. Gasquet, ''The Greater Abbeys of England'' (Chatto, 1908) *

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, ''Irish Ways'' (Allen, 1909) * Charles Kingsley, ''The Water Babies'' (MacMillan, 1909) * Grace James, ''Green Willow and Other Japanese Fairy Tales'' (MacMillan, 1910) *

Giambattista Basile Giambattista Basile ( – 23 February 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. His collections include the oldest recorded forms of many well-known (and more obscure) European fairy tales. He is chiefly remembered for writi ...

, ''Stories from the

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'' (MacMillan, 1911) * ''The Modern Reader's Chaucer'' (MacMillan, 1912) * Lal Behari Dey, '' Folk-Tales of Bengal'' (MacMillan, 1912) *

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, ''The Fairy Book'' (MacMillan, 1913) * D. A. MacKenzie, ''Indian Myth and Legend'' (Gresham, 1913) * Dinah Craik, ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' (OUP, 1914) *

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, ''Indian Tales of The Great Ones'' (1916) * J. S. Fletcher, ''The Cistercians in Yorkshire'' (SPCK, 1919) * W. G. Stables, ''Young Peggy McQueen'' (Collins) * D. Owen, ''The Book of Fairy Poetry'' (Longmans, 1920) *

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, ''Treasure Island'' (MacMillan, 1923) * Robert Louis Stevenson, ''Kidnapped'' (MacMillan, 1925) *

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, ''

Tales of the Alhambra ''Tales of the Alhambra: A Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors and Spaniards'' is an 1832 collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by American author Washington Irving (1783–1859) inspired by, and partly written during, his 1 ...

'' (MacMillan, 1926) * Elinor Whitney Field, '' Tod of the Fens'' (Macmillan, 1928) Goble contributed to these and other periodical publications. * ''The Boy's Own Paper'' * '' The Captain'' – for boys * ''

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'' * ''Little Folks'' – for children * ''The Minister'' * ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' * ''Pearson's Magazine'' * ''The Strand Magazine'' * ''The Westminster Gazette'' * '' The Wide World Magazine'' * '' Windsor Magazine''

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