Children In The Garden - Birthday Greeting Card

INSIDE GREETING: In all of this great big world there's only one you. Happy Birthday. Millicent Sowerby's illustrations of children and fairies exude a unique sweetness, as seen in this lovely painting of children playing in an idealized garden! It originates from the pages of a 1912 hardback book, Children's Magazine, which is filled with articles, stories, jokes, and beautiful illustrations tailored for Edwardian children. See this image as an art print! Millicent Sowerby (1878–1967) was an esteemed English illustrator and children's book author, born into an artistic lineage deeply rooted in creativity and craftsmanship. Her father, John G. Sowerby, was a versatile artist renowned for his work in the Aesthetic Movement. And her great-grandfather, James Sowerby, was a naturalist celebrated for his meticulously detailed scientific drawings. Interestingly, the family's entrepreneurial endeavors included Ellison Glass Works, a pioneering enterprise in the production of pressed glass—du