Coffin Boffinさんのイラストまとめ

TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in #Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937. The production, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, was set to Mendelssohn's incidental music #FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring #GothicFairies @LancasterGothic

FAIRIES AMONG MUSHROOMS A fairy maiden sleeps on a mushroom, while another watches over her. In front Pixies protect the #fairy mushroom from a snail. 🎨Thomas Heatherley 1860; fairy inkcap #mushrooms #GothicSpring

A HOBGOBLIN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive in The Snow Queen. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters their heart it will turn to ice 🎨 T. Pym, 1883 #WyrdWednesday

ENCOUNTERING A #FAIRY QUEEN C17th Poets saw MAB as the Queen of the Fae, particularly of the diminutive fairies of Drayton's Nimphidia, 1627. Queen MAB is usually pictured in white as if dressed for the bridal 🎨Smedberg, from The Seven Wishes, 1907; Maybank, 1906 #GothicSpring

WITCH An olde weather beaten crone, her chin & knees meeting for age, walking like a bow, hollow-eyed, untoothed, lips trembling with palsie, mumbling in the streets, and yet hath a shrewd tongue in her head (S. Harsnet, 1603) 🎨an old woman is persecuted, C17th New England

FLOWERS PERSONIFIED It can be hazardous being a flower maiden, you might be possessed by an over zealous collector, or if too invasive or unruly, Hawthorn & Gillyflower, you risk being contained by male gardeners 🎨 J. J. Grandville, Les Fleurs Animées. 1867 #GothicSpring

VINTAGE EASTER CARDS After all nothing says Easter quite like a creepy egg family, an army of rabbits, multiple hares on penny farthings or flowers with human faces #GothicSpring

UNICORN LOVE The #unicorn was white with hooves of silver & graceful horn of pearl. His eyes circled by this sad and beautiful darkness were so sorrowful, gentle, & nobly tragic that they KILLED ALL OTHER EMOTIONS EXCEPT LOVE
E.H.White. 🎨Domenchio; Longhi #FolkloreThursday

SIRIN & ALKONOST Prophetic women-headed birds of Russian folklore. Alkonost's beautiful song, makes those who hear her forget everything & want nothing more. She lives in the underworld with her counterpart the Sirin🎨Viktor Vasnetsov, 1896; Ivan Bilbin, 1905 #mythologymonday.

FISH-RIDING FAE by Australian illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 1888-1960 #FairyTransport