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Watery enchantment can help with Monday’s austerity. So here are some sea nymphs, beauties, kelpies, & mermaids who are part of the sea lore that Warwick Goble (1862-1943) loved to draw. 🧜♀️💙#MermaidMonday
Some beautiful illustrations of Jeremy Fisher for you, Beatrix Potter’s creation, enjoying quiet, summer days in the Lake District. She published The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher in 1906, but she had been drawing him for years. I love his Georgian attire. ☺️💕
“Once upon a midnight dreary….”
When Gustave Doré illustrated Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” in 1884, it was like finding like. Poe died tragically young shortly after it was published, but what gothic images! “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”☺️🖤🖋#FaustianFriday
Happy Fairy Friday, everyone! Here are some of my favourites by the late & great Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. I hope today goes well for you all. ☺️💕
Powered pink periwigs anyone? In the 17th & 18th centuries, wigs were in vogue in Europe. Here are a few rococo ones to brighten your day. ☺️💕🍧🎀
Some Victorian & Edwardian redheads & their knighted heroes for you today. As a Romantic & ginger teenager, these works meant a lot to me. ☺️🌹⚔️ #FairytaleTuesday
Happy Fairy Friday to each of you! Today we return to Margaret Tarrant’s magical works. I love the toadstool repairs in the first one. ☺️💕
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A simple, but masterful work tonight for you, by Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) -she’s so underrated. I love the placid reflection. Have a magical evening, my friends. ☺️💕
Working today on a piece on Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester. So here are two images for you: the first is the weary Tailor shuffling home exhausted worried about the unfinished coat; the second is the mice who will magically finish it for him. Night, all ☺️💕🪡🧵
We’ve always loved ladybugs. Historically, they meant luck, plus they dressed in style. Their noble title wasn’t from the peerage, though, but from religion, ie “Our Lady.” The British call them Ladybirds (ie “Bird of Our Lady”), but it seems poor taxonomy. 😉💕#SuperstitionSat