Thomas McIlvaine

Thomas McIlvaine

Thomas McIlvaine (1854-1933) was an American illustrator.  He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1854. He married Sybilla Mayer in 1880, and the couple had three sons: Perry, Thomas Jr. and Roy. He died in Brooklyn, New York on December 7, 1933.

McIlvaine was primarily noted as an illustrator. He contributed 100 illustrations to an 1890 edition of Thomas Moore's poem Lalla Rookh. In 1893 he provided twelve full-page watercolours, twelve full-page halftones, and other smaller illustrations for Frederick A. Stokes Company's edition of Lucile by Robert Bulwer-Lytton (writing as "Owen Meredith").

Other Works:

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments (2 v.) by George Fyler Townsend (ed) 1891

100 illustrations from Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning 1892

The Princess Margarethe by John D. Barry 1893

20 illustrations from The Wonderful “One-Hoss-Shay” And Other Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1897

Mother-Song and Child-Song by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (ed) 1898

A Treasury of American Verse by Walter Learned (ed) 1901 (with H.C.Edwards)

The Sociable Ghost by "Olive Harper" (Ellen D'Apery) 1903 (with A.W. Schwartz)

The Dear Old Home by Sara Ellmaker Ambler 1906

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