Book:The Art of Discworld

Book:The Art of Discworld
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Illustrator(s)	Paul Kidby
Publisher	Victor Gollancz
Publication date	2004
ISBN	0060758279
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RRP	£14.99
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All data relates to the first UK edition.

The second collection of Paul Kidby Discworld artwork, The Art of Discworld includes commentary on the artwork by both Kidby and Terry Pratchett.

The list of pictures below is not exhaustive.

Pictured Locations

• Ankh-Morpork
  • Tower of Art
• Death's Domain
• Lancre
• Überwald

Pictured Characters

• Great A'Tuin and the four Giant elephants

• Havelock Vetinari with his motto, "Si Non Confectus Non Reficiat"

• Wuffles

• Ankh-Morpork City Watch
  • Commander Samuel Vimes (colour)
  • Nobby Nobbs
  • Sergeant Fred Colon
  • Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson
  • Buggy Swires
  • Angua
  • Detritus

• Assassins' Guild
  • Dr Cruces
  • Zlorf Flannelfoot
  • Jonathan Teatime
  • Alice Band
  • Inigo Skimmer
  • 71-hour Ahmed (incorrectly referenced as 72-hour Achmed)
  • Edward d'Eath
  • Lord Downey (colour)

• Fools' Guild
  • Dr. Whiteface

• Beggars' Guild (all of the below are honorary members only)
  • Foul Ole Ron (colour)
  • The Duck Man (colour)
  • Coffin Henry (colour)
  • Arnold Sideways (colour)
  • Gaspode (colour)

• Vampires
  • Otto Chriek

• Dwarfs
  • Modo

• Trolls (excluding Detritus, see above)
  • Ruby
  • Zorgo, the Retro Phrenologist
  • Chrysoprase

• Wizards
  • Rincewind (colour)
  • Mustrum Ridcully
  • The Dean
  • Lecturer in Recent Runes
  • Chair of Indefinite Studies (possibly as a joke, his right leg fades into the background, making him look a bit indefinite himself)
  • Senior Wrangler
  • The Bursar
  • Ponder Stibbons
  • The Librarian (colour) and Horace Worblehat

• Death and the Horsemen
  • Death (colour) with his mottos "mon repos", "tempus fugit" (time flies), and "non timetis messor"
  • Death of Rats (colour)
  • Quoth (colour)
  • Binky (colour)
  • Albert (colour)
  • War (colour)
  • Pestilence (colour)
  • Famine (colour)
  • Kaos

• Death and his family
  • Mort (colour)
  • Ysabell (colour)
  • Susan Sto Helit (colour)

• Witches and related
  • Granny Weatherwax (colour)
  • Nanny Ogg (colour), including Mona Ogg and nudes
  • Greebo (colour)
  • Leonal Felmet
  • Lady Felmet
  • Lily Weatherwax
  • Magrat Garlick
  • Black Aliss
  • Agnes Nitt
  • Nanny Annaple
  • Gammer Tumult

• Elves
  • Lankin
  • Queen of the Elves

• Nac Mac Feegle and related
  • Daft Wullie
  • Fion
  • No-As-Big-As-Medium-Jock-But-Bigger-Than-Wee-Jock-Jock
  • Hamish
  • Rob Anybody
  • Tiffany Aching (colour)

• Vampires
  • Lacrimosa
  • Count Bela de Magpyr
  • Count de Magpyr
  • Vlad

• Barbarian heroes
  • Cohen
  • Truckle the Uncivil

• Gods (excluding Death and company, see above)
  • Hogfather
  • Jack Frost with Verruca Gnome (colour)

• Others
  • Mr. Tulip and Mr. Pin
  • Errol, swamp dragon (colour)
  • Twoflower
  • Miss Flitworth
  • Hodgesaargh the Falconer, and Dave Hodges, the model (of sorts) for Hodgesaargh
  • Lancre Morris Men
  • various Igors (colour)
  • Leonard of Quirm (colour)

Pictured Events

• Waggy Races

Pictured Items

• Dwarf Bread
• Hex

Background Items

If you look carefully, some pictures contain fairly interesting items that aren't immediately obvious:

• The 2-page black/white image of the Librarian reading the library shows several fictional Discworld books, many of which appear in other books:
  • Monster Fun Grimoire
  • Nosehinger on the Laws of Contract
  • Woddeley's Occult Primer
  • Howe To Kille Insects by Humptulip
  • The Book of Alberto Malich The Mage
  • FulloMyth
  • Bumper Fun Grimoire
  • Octarine Fairy Book
  • Book of Going Forth Around Elevenish
  • Anima Unnaturale
  • The Shuttered Palace
  • Dictionary of Eye-Watering Words

• The 1-page image of Librarian playing the organ includes:
  • It looks like a reference to Terry Jones playing naked on the organ in Monty Python's Flying Circus

• The 2-page black and white image of Greebo includes:
  • Picture of Greebo when he was changed to a man (in Witches Abroad)
  • Greebo's Maskerade Mask
  • Letter Nanny wrote home in Witches Abroad
  • Giamo Casanunda's business card
  • Nanny's banjo
  • Granny's shoes
  • Magrat's helmet
  • Granny's mysterious box
  • Granny's hat
  • Magrat's amulets
  • Nanny's pipe
  • Bees
  • Magic wand
  • Apple peel spelling out "Verence"
  • Jar of scumble
  • Quantum weather butterflies

• The 2-page black and white image of Leonard of Quirm includes:
  • letters on the left side form "oh wretched mortals"
  • letters on the right side form "open your eyes"
  • the naked Gytha Ogg sketch is a reference to a drawing from the film Titanic
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's study of cat movements is in the middle right (behind the flying machine sketch)
  • an Ornithopter, also Da Vinci's idea

• The pastiche of The Hireling Shepherd (with Gytha Ogg and Leonardo) includes:
  • Leonardo has a woman's handbag - possibly a reference to Da Vinci's sexual orientation.

• The black and white sketch of Kaos includes:
  • armour is covered with fractals