HeyJaredIllustrating the Public Domain
An adventure into the ever-expanding world of the public domain.
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The End of the Phantom (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Illustrating the Public Domain! I hope you’re all well.This Wednesday is the last of my four newsletters in September dedicated to illustrating The Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux. Below are the excerpt and my illustration. If you’d like to finish reading the story (there’s an epilogue that comes after the final scene below), you can find the copy I used on the Internet Archive.The scene today is from chapter 26. After Raoul an
In the Phantom’s Domain (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Illustrating the Public Domain! I hope you’re doing well.This Wednesday marks the third of my four newsletters dedicated to The Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux. If you’d like to read the book along with me, you can find the copy I’m using on the Internet Archive. Below are the excerpt and my illustration.Our scene today runs across chapters 19 and 20. Christine has been spirited away again. Raoul and the mysterious figure known
The Phantom Unmasked (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Illustrating the Public Domain! I hope you’re doing well.This Wednesday, my series dedicated to illustrating The Phantom of the Opera (1910) by Gaston Leroux continues. If you’d like to follow the whole story along with me, you can find the copy I’m reading on the Internet Archive. Below are the excerpt and my illustration.The scene today comes from chapter 12. Christine and Raoul sit together, under a huge statue of Apollo on the roof of t
Masquerade at the Opera (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Illustrating the Public Domain! I hope you’ve all been doing well.As I mentioned in my previous newsletter, September has five Wednesdays, so I decided to use the extra one to catch up on some other work — now that I’ve returned, it’s time to start a new story! This month, I’ll be illustrating The Phantom of the Opera. If you’d like to read the whole story along with me, you can find the copy I’m using here on the Internet Archive.<p
As the Sun Sets (opens the original)
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Welcome to another edition of Illustrating the Public Domain! I hope you’re all well.This Wednesday sees the conclusion of my August series dedicated to Old Mother West Wind (1910) by Thornton Burgess. If you’d like to read the whole story, you can find a copy on the Internet Archive. Just as a heads-up, September has five Wednesdays, so I’ll be taking the first one off — you can expect me back on the 9th!Below
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