Sonnets from the Portuguese by Phoebe Anna Traquair

Currently working on my own book, I find myself quite inspired by the illustrations of Phoebe Anna Traquair that accompany the lovely texts of  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese. It can be found  at the National Library of Scotland.

I love the way the text and the images work together- especially the drawn lettering combining image and letter and the way the drawings frame and invade the writing creating a fully composed artwork.   Zooming in on details, the little vignettes really draw one into the poetic narrative.
Lovely work!

http://digital.nls.uk/traquair/index.html