• Jessie Willcox Smith, Heidi at the Table, 1922 – 10 oz fine porcelain art mug, front view
  • Heidi at the Table – porcelain art mug on an oiled oak shelf against a limewashed wall
  • Heidi at the Table – porcelain art mug seen from the side, handle on the right
  • Heidi at the Table – porcelain art mug seen from the other side, handle on the left
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Heidi Anniversary Mug: Heidi at the Table – Jessie Willcox Smith 1922

Heidi Anniversary Mug: Heidi at the Table – Jessie Willcox Smith 1922

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The work on this mug
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863–1935)
Heidi at the Table, 1922
Chapter vignette, line drawing with one colour tint, printed in Johanna Spyri, Heidi (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1922)
The New York Public Library, image ID 1699027
Public domain. Digitally restored from the 1922 edition.

In 1922 the Philadelphia publisher David McKay brought out a new American edition of Heidi with pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith, then the most sought-after children's illustrator in the United States. Besides ten colour plates, Smith drew a small vignette for the head of each chapter. This is one of them: Heidi with bowed head and folded hands, sitting at a table with a green cloth.

Johanna Spyri, the author of Heidi, was born on 12 June 1827. Her two-hundredth birthday in 2027 is the occasion for this anniversary edition: chapter vignettes from the 1922 book, each on a mug of its own.

Digitally restored from the 1922 edition. The printed page carries the dot screen of the halftone process; here the drawing has been rebuilt line by line and the tint laid in as clean, flat colour, so that Smith's pen work reads crisply on white porcelain.

Fine porcelain, 10 oz — 104 mm high, 75 mm across the base. The image runs around the body; handle and rim stay white. Dishwasher and microwave safe.

From the same series: Heidi Reading, 1922 · Heidi Waving, 1922 · Heidi Hugging a Goat, 1922 · Two Goats with Pink Bows, 1922 · Peter the Goatherd, 1922 · Heidi and Her Friend, 1922 · Heidi and Grandfather, 1922 · Heidi Picking Flowers, 1922 · Heidi with Little Goats, 1922 · Heidi with Two Kittens, 1922

Jessie Willcox Smith, Heidi at the Table, 1922; chapter vignette, line drawing with one colour tint, from Johanna Spyri, Heidi (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1922). The New York Public Library, image ID 1699027. Public domain.

Selected by Dr. Walther Fuchs for the Tazzarte collection.

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