Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️さんのイラストまとめ

Perks of being a fairy: magical, owl transport ❤️

(🎨 Amelia Jane Murray)
#FairyFriday

The Concert, by Johannes Vermeer, circa 1664

Wishing on a star never gets old. Thank you so much for your kind notes over the past few days. Have a cozy evening, everyone ❤️✨
(🎨 Deborah Hocking)

Some autumnal, flower fairies for you to kick off the season...the great Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973) knew her botany. She worked hard at flower & faerie lore & her brilliantly chosen details

Will o’ the Wisp, by Lev Lurch, c. 1888

#SwampSunday

The friendship between the Bard’s joyful rogue, Sir John Falstaff, and Prince Henry (Hal) is heartbreaking: 💔

‘Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou knowest my old ward.’
—Falstaff
Henry IV Part I (II, iv)

🎨 Smirke & von Grützner
#ShakespeareSunday

Will-o’-the-wisp, also known as Jack-o’-Lantern, by Arthur Hughes, c. 1872

#SwampSunday

Poe’s Dupin was a first: a weird, detective genius: 🔍

“Let him talk,” said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I am satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.”
-Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin
#BookwormSat

Sorry, I had to take down the other Carroll post as it’s a misquote.
But I love the kinship between these lone ones: Alice & the Cheshire Cat. 💜🌳

“Oh you can't help that,"
said the cat.
“We're all mad here. I am mad. You're mad.”
-Lewis Carroll
#WyrdWednesday
🎨 Tenniel

Thoreau on loving nearby swamps: 💚

‘When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place,--a sanctum sanctorum.’
—Henry David Thoreau

#SwampSunday
🎨 Humphries