Shantanu Meets Goddess Ganga by Warivick Goble

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

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and the

Westminster School of Art The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London. History The Westminster School of Art was located at 18 Tufton Street, Deans Yard, Westminster, and was part of the old Royal Architectural Museum. H. M. Bateman described ...

. He specialized in fairy tales and exotic scenes from Japan, India and Arabia. He illustrated H.G. Wells' ''

The War of the Worlds ''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ''Pearson's Magazine'' in the UK and by ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'' magazine in the US. The novel's first appear ...

'' - 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 ''Pearson's Magazine'' was a monthly periodical that first appeared in Britain in 1896. A US version began publication in 1899. It specialised in speculative literature, political discussion, often of a socialist bent, and the arts. Its contribut ...

'', illustrating a number of early

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

stories, including several by Frederick Merrick White.

Selected works

Books illustrated: *

Samuel Rutherford Crockett Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914), who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist. Life and work He was born at Little Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway on 24 September 18 ...

, ''Lad’s Love'' (Bliss Sands, 1897) *

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Mrs. Molesworth, ''The Grim House'' (Nisbet, 1899) *

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, ''Constantinople'' (Black, 1906) * Francis A. Gasquet, ''The Greater Abbeys of England'' (Chatto, 1908) *

Jane Barlow Jane Barlow (17 October 1856 – 17 April 1917) was an Irish writer, noted for her novels and poems describing the lives of the Irish peasantry, chiefly about Lisconnel and Ballyhoy, in relation to both landlords and the Great Famine. Life ...

, ''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 (February 1566 – 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 remembere ...

, ''Stories from the

Pentamerone The ''Pentamerone'', subtitled ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. Background The stories in the ''Pentamerone'' were collec ...

'' (MacMillan, 1911) * ''The Modern Reader’s Chaucer'' (MacMillan, 1912) *

Lal Behari Dey Reverend Lal Behari Day (also Dey, 18 December 1824 – 28 October 1892) was an Indian writer and journalist, who converted to Christianity, and became a Christian missionary himself. Biography Lal Behari Dey was born on 18 December 1824 to a ...

, ''

Folk-Tales of Bengal ''Folk-Tales of Bengal'' is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. This article fashions the author's name "Lalbehari De". The 1912 title page credits "Rev. Lal Behari Day" (all caps). The book was pub ...

'' (MacMillan, 1912) *

Dinah Craik Dinah Maria Craik (; born Dinah Maria Mulock, often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik; 20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel ''John Halifax, Gentleman'', which presents the ...

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

Cornelia Sorabji Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after he ...

, ''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) *

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

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

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legen ...

, ''

Tales of the Alhambra ''Tales of the Alhambra'' (1832) is a collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by American author Washington Irving (1783–1859) inspired by, and partly written during, his 1828 visit to the palace/fortress complex known as the Alhambr ...

'' (MacMillan, 1926) *

Elinor Whitney Field Elinor Whitney Field (1889–1980) was an American writer of children's books. Whi ...

, ''

Tod of the Fens ''Tod of the Fens'' is a children's historical novel by Elinor Whitney Field. Set in Boston, England, in the early fifteenth century, it is a light-hearted adventure about Tod, a boy who lives with a band of men outside town, and Prince Hal, the h ...

'' (Macmillan, 1928) Goble contributed to these and other periodical publications. * ''The Boy's Own Paper'' * '' The Captain'' – for boys * ''

The Illustrated London News ''The Illustrated London News'' appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine. Founded by Herbert Ingram, it appeared weekly until 1971, then less frequently thereafter, and ceased publication i ...

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

The Wide World Magazine ''The Wide World Magazine'' was a British monthly illustrated publication which ran from April 1898 to December 1965. ...

'' * ''

Windsor Magazine ''The Windsor Magazine'' was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939 (537 issues). The title page described it as "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women". It was bound as six-monthly ...

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