Francis Cheyne Papé (4 July 1878 – 5 May 1972), was an English artist and illustrator whose career spanned 64 years, from 1898 to 1962.

Papé's work included painting using gouache, water colour, and illustration in pen and ink.

In 1921 literary critic Clement Shorter said readers of Cabell's Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice would be "enticed into the absorption of this book by the luxury of its illustration.

[4] Cabell described Pape’s illustrations as "opulent in conceits and burgeons and whimseys" in the preface of the 1925 reissue of his Figures of Earth.

[14] Stringer was a former Slade School of Fine Art student whose illustrations in Little Folks (c. 1910) magazine for children resemble Papé's early style.

[16] In 1905 Papé was 27 when his work "The Life And Death Of Siegfried" sold for £157 (equivalent to $26,585 in 2023) during the Spring Exhibition at the Southport Corporation Atkinson Art Gallery in Merseyside, England.

[18] Pape's earliest book illustrations were for Emile Clement's Naughty Eric and Other Stories from Giant, Witch, and Fairyland, published in 1902, which remains extremely rare.

[19] Papé's next earliest illustrations are found in books for children from around 1908, including The Toils and Travels of Odysseus (1908), a translation of The Odyssey by Cyril A. Pease and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1910).

World War I brought a decline in Britain's illustrated book market, affecting Papé's livelihood.

In the 1980s many volumes of author Dennis Wheatley's personal library bearing then unknown Papé bookplates were discovered on the 50p–£1 shelves at the Blackwell's bookstore in Oxford.

One of Papé’s illustrations for the works of François Rabelais was used as a bookplate design by silent film star Louise Brooks.

The book recounted Jurgen's sexual liaisons with a female vampire, a goddess of fertility, and other maidens before choosing wedded bliss.

Cabell's book series Biography of the Life of Manuel issued by the London publishing house The Bodley Head, included Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1921, originally in a limited edition), The High Place, Something about Eve and The Cream of the Jest.

Cabell praised Papé's work in "A Preface To These Pictures" in the 1925 edition of his book Figures of Earth, saying in part "... most of my later writings are being commended to 'Papé collectors'.

And indeed, the volume in your hands, I must perforce... regard as Mr. Papé's book, rather than my own book whensoever I I quite futilely attempt to sum up his delightful and unarithmetical additions to the text... All these fine things, and many other fine things hereinafter, stay wholly and indisputably the legal children of Frank C.

[26] Cabell enthusiasts purchased large format color broadside prints of the map, advertised as "suitable for framing".

[27] The success of these editions led to The Bodley Head commissioning illustrations by Papé for books of Anatole France, including The Revolt of the Angels (1924), Penguin Island (1925), Thaïs (1926) and The Well of St. Clare (1928), in addition to those for the works of Rabelais.

[29] Circa 1925, Papé illustrated Uncle Ray's Corner, Ramon Coffman's weekly children's column syndicated in the United States by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Examples of realized prices at auction include: • A single Papé illustration was sold at Christie's South Kensington facility on 7 July 1993.

signed with initials; pencil and watercolor in an embossed copper Arts and Crafts frame decorated with coats of arms, "probably designed by Papé" sold at Christie's on 16 July 1999 for £28,750 (US$ 46,575) (equivalent to $85,186 in 2023).

", illustrated by a 22 year old Papé, in pencil, pen and ink and wash, heightened with white, signed and dated 'F.C.Papé 1901', 16 x 10in.