Tanglewood Tales, with its stories from Greek mythology was a favorite children's book of the time, one also illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Anne Anderson and other Golden Age illustrators. In 1921, the Penn Publishing Company again commissioned her to illustrate an edition of Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Old French Fairy Tales Second Book: Tanglewood Tales She was 19 and received $500 for the eight watercolors and 16 pen and ink drawings, with a supplemental $250 for a colored drawing for the cover and ink drawings for the end papers and boards. She was commissioned by Penn Publishing Company to illustrate the Comptesse de Ségur's Old French Fairy Tales. Virginia Frances Sterrett's first commission came in 1919. She left incomplete a set of illustrations to Myths and Legends. Virginia died in 1931, at the age of 30, of tuberculosis. Illustrations from all three books are presented here. Her work is enjoying a renaissance of interest, and is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Virginia Frances Sterrett illustrated three books: The Arabian Nights, Tanglewood Tales, and Old French Fairy Tales.
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