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Thomas McIlvaine

1854 – 1933

Illustrator from the United States

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Lived 1854 – 1933 (aged 78–79). Thomas McIlvaine was an American illustrator.

Thomas McIlvaine (October 4, 1854 – December 7, 1933) was an American illustrator.

Life McIlvaine 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. In 1893 he provided twelve full-page watercolors, 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.); George Fyler Townsend (ed.); 1891 100 illustrations from Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning; 1892 The Princess Margarethe; John D. Barry; 1893 20 illustrations from The Wonderful “One-Hoss-Shay” And Other Poems; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; 1897 Mother-Song and Child-Song; Charlotte Brewster Jordan (ed.); 1898 A Treasury of American Verse; Walter Learned (ed.); 1901 (with H.C.Edwards) The Sociable Ghost; "Olive Harper" (Ellen D'Apery); 1903 (with A.W. Schwartz) The Dear Old Home; Sara Ellmaker Ambler; 1906

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illustrator from the United States

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Thomas McIlvaine was born in 1854.

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Thomas McIlvaine died in 1933.

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Thomas McIlvaine was an illustrator.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Thomas McIlvaine

· Wikidata: Q109537538

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