Rosie Whiteさんのイラストまとめ

✨ A glimpse 🔎 betwixt the bindweed into the mischief of Shakespeare’s Seelie court…✨

My favourite details from ‘Hermia and Lysander, 🧚🏻 a Midsummer Night's Dream’ (1870) by John Simmons. 🌿🐁

Does anyone know the history / reasoning behind this apparent trend? Beyond the (perhaps) enduring emotion of passive aggressive politeness.

I love these twin paintings…
A somewhat petrified little girl sits bolt upright in My First Sermon (1863) by Sir John Everett Millais. ⛪️ By it’s sequel, My Second Sermon (1864), the novelty of the service (and resulting fear of hellfire & damnation) appears to have waned.

Another favourite is this dress embodying 'Dawn', feat. moths, the moon, and a rising sun on the bodice that radiates down through the tulle clouds illuminating the skirt.

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Architectural Fantasy c.1856 🎨🏰 by a patient at Crichton Royal Lunatic Asylum drawn ‘during acute mania with degraded tendencies'.

The Swan Maidens 🦢 by Walter Crane (1894). The youngest, failing to don her feather robe, is doomed to marry the mortal that has stolen her skin. Notably painted after the ‘Married Woman's Property Act’ a law that prevented a wife’s identity from being subsumed by her husband.🪶

🦚🦜 A Box of Cut-paper Featherwork Illustrations inspired by John Gould's Birds (1865). 🦆🕊 Each piece is given a three dimensional form by a judicious padding of the bird bodies which are, in turn, pricked with a pin to create texture.

Arthur Rackham’s Jewels from the Deep (1909) & his illustration from Imagina (1914), a tale by Julia Ellsworth in which two young boys implore: ‘O won’t you come out with us Mermaid & play! Please Mermaid come out where it’s sunny!’ 🌤 #MythologyMonday https://t.co/cEgrvg37os

#QuarantineHerbarium inspiration - Harriet Wickham (1766-1847) was an amateur botanist who enjoyed botanising from her garden at Cottingley, & from walks in the local area. Here, she documents finding Bog Pimpernel & the carnivorous common sundew on the marshy moorlands in 1799.

“By means of machinery, the planets are made to revolve; thus giving an attentive pupil an excellent idea of those heavenly bodies, which are continually moving & revolving in space, though to us on earth they seem to do nothing but twinkle.” 🌏
(Our young folks, 1865) ✨