Showing posts with label Paper Dolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paper Dolls. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Grace Drayton

                          Fig 1: Grace Drayton, Dolly Dimples, Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood, 1910.

Grace Drayton (1877-1936) was an illustrator, cartoonist and artist who created the incredibly popular Dolly Dimples amongst many other successful commercial illustration endeavours.

                                                   Fig 2: Grace Drayton 

Grace was the third daughter of George Gebbie a Scottish immigrant who was the first art publisher in Philadelphia and his wife Mary Jane Fitzgerald they had six daughters and one son.
Grace Gebbie was married originally to Theodore Wiederseim in 1904 and shockingly for the times and her Catholic upbringing she divorced in 1911 and then married divorcee W. Heyward Drayton III.

Grace was the younger sister of Margaret Hays, who was also an illustrator. The two collaborated on a comic strips and books including 'Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians' and 'The Turr'ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo'.
               Fig 3,4: above and below illustrations from 'Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians' written by Margaret G Hays and 
                         illustrated by her sister Grace Drayton, published in 1911.

Graces fame stems from her 1905 Campbells soup advertisements and the immensely popular Dolly Dingles but she was also a talented painter. 

                                                 Fig 5: Campbells Soup Kid No 8 Advertisement (approximately 1905)



References:

Fig 1:    Grace Drayton, Dolly Dimples, Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood, 1910.
             http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dolly-Dingle-Grace-Drayton-Red-Riding-Hood-Fairy-Tale-Paper-Doll-Modern-Postcard-/121224972344
Fig 2:    Grace Drayton http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm
Fig 3/4: Hays, M,G, 'Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians' illustrated by Grace Drayton, J. B. Lippincott 
             Company, London/Philadelphia. 1911.
Fig 5:    Campbell's Soup Kid No8 https://www.cardcow.com/358778/campbells-soup-kid-no-8-advertising/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Drayton
http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm

Monday, 29 December 2014

Margaret Gebbie Hays

   Fig 1(above): Margaret G Hay's 1913

This second paper doll postcard of Little Red Riding Hood is by Margaret G Hays. 
Margaret Gebbie Hays (1874-1925) illustrated many children's books and many postcards with dolls that could be cut out and dressed. 
Margaret was the older sister of Grace Drayton, who was also an illustrator. 
There is less information available on Magaret G Hays than on her sister Grace who is famous for creating the Campbell Soup Kids advertisements 1905 and the Dolly Dingle paper dolls that were published in the Pictorial Review a women's magazine.
                                               Fig 2 (above) Margaret G Hays
Margaret married Frank (Peg) Hays who was the owner of the doll company Children's Novelty Co, The company produced dolls designed by his wife and her famous sister.


                    Fig 3 (above) Cover illustration by Margaret G Hays from The Mary Francis Cookbook (Adventures 
                                 Among the Kitchen People)  by Jane Fryer 1912


                                          Fig 4, 5 (above and below) Illustration by Margaret G Hays from The Mary Francis Cookbook 
                                          (Adventures Among the Kitchen People)  by Jane Fryer 1912



References 

Fig 1:        Margaret G Hay's 1913 http://hedgehogstudio.com/red-riding-hood-paper-doll-by-margaret-hays/
Fig 2:        Margaret G Hays circa 1893-1903 http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm
Fig 3:        Margaret G Hays Book Cover for The Mary Francis Cookbook (Adventures Among the Kitchen People) 1912
                 http://whatscookinvt.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/tale-two-covers-mary-frances/
Fig 4,5:     Fryer, J, E. The Mary Francis Cookbook (Adventures Among the Kitchen People) 1912 
                 

https://archive.org/details/vegetableversele00hays 
http://home.comcast.net/~bluepatch/Biographies/Grace_Drayton_web.htm
https://archive.org/details/maryfrancescookb00frye
http://www.vintagevalentinemuseum.com/2014/03/artists-margaret-g-hays.html
http://mostlypaperdolls.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/turrble-tales-of-kaptin-kiddo-ad-1909.html
The Mary Francis Cookbook (Adventures Among the Kitchen People) 1912 

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Louis Wain

In the next few posts I will be showcasing paper dolls that were usually printed as postcards or magazine supplements. Paper dolls were produced as simple inexpensive toys for children throughout the last two centuries. The first documented one 'Little Fanny', being produced by S&J Fuller, London in approximately 1810, and in America 'The History and Adventures of Little Henry', published by J. Belcher of Boston in 1812.

         Fig 1: (above) Louise Wain,  Little Red-Riding Hood, Fairy Tale Dressing Dolls, paper doll postcard. 1912


                                    Fig 2 (above) Louis Wain

Louis Wain (1860-1939) was an illustrator who specialised in anthropomorphic cat imagery. He was born with a cleft lip, which at the time led doctors to recommend that he be kept from education until he was ten years old. Eventually, after what must have been a difficult childhood, he attended West London School of Art.

Louis was the oldest of six children and the only boy born to a French mother and an English father both of whom worked in textiles and embroidery.
Louis's father died in 1880 leaving Louis at twentyyears old to support his mother and five sisters. None of Louis's sisters married, however Louis caused great scandal by marrying his younger sisters governess, Emily Richardson. Tragically Emily died only three years later of breast cancer. Louis was said to have entertained his convalescing wife by drawing pictures of their cat Peter.
It was these drawings of cats that were to make Louis Wain a household name both in Britain and America as his illustrations were published in newspapers and magazines in both countries.
Louis lived in America, supposedly fleeing from debts, for over two years returning to Britain after the death of his mother in 1910.
"I take a sketch-book to a restaurant, or other public place, and draw the people in their different positions as cats, getting as near to their human characteristics as possible. This gives me doubly nature, and these studies I think [to be] my best humorous work." Louis Wain
There is much discussion about Louis Wain's mental health, his work developed through his life into a very psychedelic form, particularly considering the age in which it was created and it is the chronology of his work that has been studied and used as evidence of degenerating mental stability. Wain was known in Britain as 'The Man Who Drew Cats' and he was very successful publishing many books, postcards and cartoons up until the first world war. His career waned after the war and he struggled to make a living.
Louis was certified insane in 1924 and lived the remaining fifteen years of his life in mental hospitals where he continued to practice his art.

                                              Fig 3: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Louis Wain 1917

References:

Fig 1: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3538210
Fig 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
Fig 3: Wain, L. Little Red Riding Hood and Other Tales, Gale and Polden, London.1917
         http://www.pinterest.com/pin/419679258996414118/
         https://www.jonkers.co.uk/products/detail/productid/5521

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwbTgX_imE
http://www.buderimrarebooks.com.au/featured-books/joan-lindsay-first-edition-of-picnic-at-hanging-rock/
http://www.pawsonline.info/care/louis%20wain.htm
http://www.stellabooks.com/articles/wain.php
http://www.opdag.com/history.html