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Parrish:Knave of Hearts Colouring Book

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One forty-eight page 8½ x 11 in. book with twenty-two images to colour. Each illustration is reproduced in a small, colour version of the original artwork and as a full-page black line drawing.

The Knave of Hearts—a play based on a nursery rhyme made famous through its inclusion in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—was written by Louise Saunders, the talented wife of legendary editor Maxwell Perkins. Saunders’s play follows the fanciful story of the royal household of Pompdebile, King of Hearts, as his bride-to-be, Lady Violetta, struggles with a requirement for their marriage. Violetta must bake pastry satisfying to the King. She cannot cook, alas!, but she gets essential help from the royal Knave, and everything works out in the end.

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) is remembered today as one of America’s greatest illustrators, and his paintings for The Knave of Hearts—first published in 1925—are considered masterpieces. Parrish is known for combining luminescent colour, photorealism, surreal imagery, and technical excellence.

Twenty-two of Maxfield Parrish’s illustrations for The Knave of Hearts, including the bookplate and endpaper paintings from the original printing, are included here. The paintings depict the delightful, humorous, and lovable characters in Saunders’s play. Most of them relate directly to scenes in the script, but some of them—such as The Gardener Wheeling Vegetables, The Youth and the Frog, and Chef between Two Lobsters—serve as enhancements to the story. All 22 paintings are shown as small pictures on the inside front and back covers. When you colour in the line drawings, you might want to copy their colours, or you might decide to use your own. We’ve left the last page of this book blank so that you can draw and colour a picture of your own.
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Parrish:Knave of Hearts Colouring Book
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GBP Sterling £ 5.99
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KRS5385
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