Angels : a host of images to mail, share, and cherish : A Postcard Book™.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Subjects (All):

Angels.

Angels--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Postcards.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

[60] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 12 x 18 cm

Distribution:

London : Running Press,

Other Title:

Angels : A Postcard Book™

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1997.

Contents:

The Virgin in Paradise by Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert

"How Galahad Sought the Sang Real and Found It because His Heart Was Simple so He Followed it to Sarras the City of the Spirit" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Executed in stained glass by William Morris, 1880

Angels, detail from The Madonna della Melagrana, by Sandro Botticelli

Angel, detail from The Annunciation, by Martin Schongauer

Angel, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

An Angel, by Valerie Thornton

Two Angels, by Charles Francois Sellier

The Fiery Angel (1927), by Leon Underwood

The Poet's Dream, by Paul Cezanne

The Two Angels, detail from The Sistine Madonna by Raphael Sanzio

The Triumph of Galatea, by Raphael Sanzio

Detail from Three Praying Angels, by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

Angel (1889), by Abbott Handerson Thayer

Cupidon (1891) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Angel Traveller, by Gustave Moreau

Adoration of the Shepherds, by Aaron Raphael Mengs

Detail from Trinity with St. Ursula and St. Margaret, by Antonio Maria

The Cloister or the World (1896) by Arthur Hacker

Saint Joachim, or Joseph, Gothic Hungarian Painting (1450), artist unknown

Our Lady of Good Children (1847-1861), by Ford Madox Brown

Angel with Trombone, detail from The Last Judgement (c. 1058-1075), artist unknown

Music Making Angel, by Rosso Fiorentino

Angel Playing the Violin, by Melozzo da Forli

Choir of Angels, detail from the Journey of the Magi cycle in the chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (c. 1460), by Benozzo di Lese Gozzoli di Sandro

Swing Low Sweet Chariot (c. 1939), by William H. Johnson

Tobias and the Angel, by Jean-Charles Cazin

Detail from Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels, by William Blake.

Notes:

"The Original Postcard™ Book"--Back cover.

"Designed by Corinda Cook. Picture research by Susan Oyama. Edited by Elizabeth Amy Janke."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies are "1" printing.

ISBN:

0762401672 :

OCLC:

1452614926