Beautiful alphabet print by Swedish illustrator Ottilia Adelborg, measuring 50 x 70cm.

About Ottilia Adelborg:

Eva Ottilia Adelborg (6 December 1855 – 19 March 1936) was a Swedish children’s book illustrator, comics artist ^[1] and author and the founder of a school for lace making. A literary award, the Ottilia Adelborg Prize, was established in her honor in 2000, and there is an Ottilia Adelborg Museum in the municipality of Gagnef.

Adelborg quickly became known as a children’s book illustrator, writing and illustrating over a dozen books between 1885 and 1920 and illustrating another dozen books for other authors. One of her best-known books was an alphabet of flowers, Prinsarnes blomsteralfabet (The Princes’ Flower Alphabet, 1892) that was strongly influenced by the work of Walter Crane.^[2] The title referred to the fact that at the time there were three young princes in the Swedish royal household.^[2]