Kitty Shannon

Katherine Marjorie "Kitty" Shannon (3 February 1887 – 24 November 1974), was an English artist and illustrator. Her father was the artist Sir James Jebusa Shannon, for whom she was a frequent sitter. In 1912, she married Walter Keigwin and they had two children.

Works

Her work includes illustration for:

• The Devil on Two Sticks by Alain-René Lesage
• Nell Gwyn: The Story of Her Life by Lewis Melville
• Henry VIII and His Wives by Walter Jerrold (1926)
• Venus in Trousers, the fictionalised biography of George Sand (1938)

External links

• Illustrations to The Devil on Two Sticks
• Online edition of The Devil on Two Sticks
• Online edition of Nell Gwyn: The Story of Her Life

References