The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of the Detmold Twins

Edward Julius Detmold and his twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold were prolific early Victorian and early twentieth-century book illustrators. At the age of 13, they were the youngest people to exhibit watercolours at the Royal Academy and worked jointly in their younger years on their etchings and illustrations. Sadly their productive partnership came to a sudden end in April 1908 when Maurice Detmold committed suicide. Though stunned by his brother’s death, Edward continued to work at the publishers Hodder and Stoughton and at the Rossetti Studios in Flood Street into the 1920s and 1930s, creating etchings, drawings and paintings, and coloured block prints, before largely withdrawing from public life and committing suicide himself in 1957. This book, compiled by Iain MacPhail, lists and reproduces in colour all the known prints produced by the twins.