Talk:Randolph Caldecott

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The below text was in the External links section. Not sure what to do with it. Moved here:

Please note The Caldecott Community (nursery/school) named after Randolph Caldecott whose illustrative works decorated the first Cartwright Gardens, London premises being founded in 1911 by Leila Margaret Rendel OBE and Phylis Potter. The Caldecott Community title is since renamed The Caldecott Foundation. Leila M. Rendel was a founder member with Kurt Hahn of Gordonstoun School, Scotland at which English royals have attended along with varied boys from L.M.R's Caldecott Community.

--71.191.42.242 (talk) 02:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See Caldecott Foundation where that information is more appropriate. I've added a link to that article in the "See also" section of this one (with considerably trimmed commentary). Voceditenore (talk) 14:29, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some Links[edit]

http://books.google.com/books?id=Mo86nKqQAQYC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=%22I+proposed+to+have+no+blanks+at+all+in+these+books%22#v=onepage&q=%22I%20proposed%20to%20have%20no%20blanks%20at%20all%20in%20these%20books%22&f=false

Some links for later expansion.Smallman12q (talk) 01:40, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quote[edit]

There's an amusing letter he wrote on June 22, 1880 to a book collector:

Dear Sir:

Your note of 22 May is very complimentary to me-in it you tell me that you are going to preserve for future generations a copy of my volume of Picture Books. I am very glad. I hope others will do the same, and that future generations will feel blessed, be content, and not knock the nose off my statue.

Yours pictorially, Randolph Caldecott

source Smallman12q (talk) 12:59, 17 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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For reference, the freely available 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article on this subject. LeProf.[edit]

"RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846-1886), English artist and illustrator, was born at Chester on the 22nd of March 1846. From 1861 to 1872 he was a bank clerk, first at Whitchurch in Shropshire, afterwards at Manchester; but devoted all his spare time to the cultivation of a remarkable artistic faculty. In 1872 he migrated to London, became a student at the Slade School and finally adopted the artist's profession. He gained immediately a wide reputation as a prolific and original illustrator, gifted with a genial, humorous faculty, and he succeeded also, though in less degree, as a painter and sculptor. His health gave way in 1876, and after prolonged suffering he died in Florida on the 12th of February 1886. His chief book illustrations are as follows: - Old Christmas (1876) and Bracebridge Hall (1877), both by Washington Irving; North Italian Folk (1877), by Mrs Comyns Carr; The Harz Mountains (1883); Breton Folk (1879), by Henry Blackburn; picture-books (John Gilpin, The House that Jack Built, and other children's favourites) from 1878 onwards; Some Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances, &c. (1883). He held a roving commission for the Graphic, and was an occasional contributor to Punch. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours. See Henry Blackburn, Randolph Caldecott, Personal Memoir of his Early Life (London, 1886)."

    http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Randolph_Caldecott  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.123.248 (talk) 16:40, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

Just wanted to thank everyone who's contributed to this page. Randolph Caldecott was my great-great uncle (the brother of my paternal grandfather's mother) and thanks to all of you, he's the best documented of all my ancestors, and I've been able to fill in a few gaps in the family tree! UrsusMaximus (talk) 10:48, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]