Brother Rabbit, Ltd.

Motto by Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founder of the Roycroft community in East Aurora, New York. American writer, publisher, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard was b...orn on June 19, 1856. Prior to becoming an accomplished author, he first worked as a salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. In 1895, he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York. It was established as part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. He soon ventured into publishing with Roycroft Press where he edited and published the magazines The Philistine and The Fra. He became a prolific writer, releasing several publications. Hubbard and his wife Alice died aboard the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 when it was sunk by a German u-boat.

Harry Clarke (18911931). An imaginative genius in Illustration and Stained-Glass Arts. Illustration to John Keat's poem, ‘The eve of St. Agnes’ ...

Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 'Alice, la Belle Pèlerine', 185859 "In 1856, while studying theology at Oxford, the twenty-three-year-old Burne-Jones toured Go...thic cathedrals in France with his friend William Morris, consulted with Dante Gabriel Rossetti in London, and decided to leave college and pursue art. John Ruskin advised him to look closely at Albrecht Dürer, and the present drawing demonstrates the influence of that German master, combined with aspects of Rossetti’s distinct draftsmanship and vision of female beauty. Thomas Malory's chivalric poem "La Morte D’Arthur" describes Alice la Belle Pèlerine (Alice the beautiful pilgrim) as "passing fair" and notes that her moniker came courtesy of her father, Duke Ansirus who "was a great pilgrim, for every third year he would be at Jerusalem." An emblematic shell hangs at Alice's neck as she pursues her own quest which is one of the heart. At the center of a group of girls and young women, she processes through a medieval interior, perhaps headed out to the lush summer landscape seen through an unglazed window to watch knights joust for her hand. Worked in ink on vellum, the drawing comes from an early group made between 1858 and 1860, praised by Ruskin as "marvels in finish and imaginative detail."