Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

Kay Nielsen's illustrations for East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a collection of icy fairytales rich with noble bears, howling winds & pine forests–gathered by Norwegian folklorists Ambjørnsen & Engebretsen Moe on their journeys across Norway in the 1880s. #FolkloreThursday

"Children must often contend with people & things that are so much larger or stronger than they are & even grownups can feel pushed about by the giant toads & moles & Junebugs of this world." Lisbeth Zwerger's beautiful & powerful illustrations for Thumberline. #FolkloreThursday

The brilliant Ayako Ishiguro is one of Japan’s most innovative & prolific feline illustrators, following in Kuniyoshi's grand tradition of wild, tough, self-determining cats taking NO prisoners, whether they be human, yōkai or fish.

If you're as exhausted from EVERYTHING as I am, then please tumble into the gentle world of Foxwood Tales, with its handsome fox coachmen & kindly badger apothecaries, crisp linen sheets like snow & damson jam, well-patched coverlets & oil lamps, pipe stands & fish-for-supper.

Takeda Shintaro
Snowy Day ~ Five-story Pagoda at Ueno
1954

John Bauer's works are rooted in the mythic realms of the Swedish forest in winter, scattered with stars & deep in snow. He led a brief & violently romantic life. When he died in a shipwreck at 36 in 1918, newspapers claimed that forest spirits had taken him by sinking the ship.

Jessie came to dominate the world of illustration & advertising, working for Scribner's, Harper's Bazaar & St. Nicholas Magazine, commanding significant fees & winning countless awards. Her depictions of children & mothers shaped Edwardian archetypes of motherhood.

A writhing, furious tangle of Medusas, turning all before them to silent, voiceless stone.

(Jozef Mehoffer, 1904; Glauco Cambon, 1919; Alice Pike Barney,1892; Fernand Khnopff,1896)

"It is neither wit, nor a fine person, in a husband, that makes a woman happy, but virtue, sweetness of temper, & complaisance, and Beast has all these valuable qualifications.”

Walter Crane's 1874 illustrations from Beauty & the Beast, featuring a most elegant, monocled beast.

Kay Nielsen's illustrations for East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a collection of old fairytales rich with great bears, magical winds, deep snow and trolls - gathered by Norwegian folklorists Asbjørnsen & Moe on their journeys across Norway in the 1880s. #FolkloreThursday