Elizabeth Shippen Green was a prolific illustrator with a keen sense of composition, decoration, use of color, and attention to historical detail whose work appeared in books and magazines for almost sixty years. Green was born on 1 September 1871 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents, Jasper and Elizabeth Shippen Boude Green, loved art and encouraged their daughter to pursue it as a career. Green attended Miss Mary Hough's School and Miss Gordon's School, where she soon exhibited artistic talent. At the age of seven Green drew flowers in her notebook and labeled the picture "From Natural Flowers, by Bessie Green, Ralston, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1879." In 1887 Green enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied with Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, and Robert Vonnoh. Along with the other female art students, Green took one year of drawing, working from plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman statues whose private...