COSSACK FAIRY TALES illustrated by NOEL L. NISBET

 Noël Laura Nisbet (British painter) 1887 - 1956

Noel Laura Nisbet came from an artistic Scottish family. She was the youngest daughter of Hume Nisbet, an artist, author and traveller. Her sister Margaret also became a painter. The family moved to London in 1887 and she won numerous awards while studying at the Clapham School of Art. In 1910 she married Harry Bush, a fellow student. Four years later her father set up his artistic daughters in two houses, with purpose-built attic studios, on an estate then being built in Merton Park, south west London. They were to live there for the rest of their lives; Harry Bush was to immortalise their world in his pictures of suburban London. Nisbet illustrated five books of fairy tales and legends and the majority of her Royal Academy exhibits (1914-1938) are of such subjects.

 

                                                         Noël Laura Nisbet, Self Portrait

Frontispiece

OH: THE TSAR OF THE FOREST

 

THE STORY OF THE WIND

 

THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL

 

THE STORY OF UNLUCKY DANIEL

THE GOLDEN SLIPPER

 

THE TSAR AND THE ANGEL

 

 

 

THE STORY OF IVAN AND THE
DAUGHTER OF THE SUN

 

THE SERPENT-TSAREVICH AND
HIS TWO WIVES

 

IVAN THE FOOL AND ST PETER'S
FIFE

 

THE WONDROUS STORY OF IVAN GOLIK AND THE SERPENTS