Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋さんのイラストまとめ

In Shakespeare’s day, ghosts were serious business. The religious turmoil in Elizabethan England meant that when he penned the scene, of Hamlet facing his avenging, ghostly father on the ramparts, it would be bone-chilling. 😱 #FaustianFriday
🎨Gould, Delacroix, Fuseli

Literary fairy tales often dwelled on food fantasies because famines, & keeping the “wolf from the door,” were worries for centuries. Hansel & Gretel finding the house made of gingerbread was, & is, the stuff of delicious dreams.🧁

🎨Vogel, Kubel, & Vtorenko
#FolkloreThursday

I love this work Walter Crane did, in the 1870s, for “The North Wind Doth Blow,” a sad, but beautiful old nursery rhyme song. I love the robin’s plight. 💕
#FairyTaleTuesday

Randolph Caldecott gave nursery rhymes both whimsy & history at once. His art helped invent the picture book (for all classes of children), & the Caldecott Medal is named for him. Here are some fun ones he did. ☺️📚💕
#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

I’m wishing you all a Happy Easter with these Edwardian vintage cards. Here’s to our smaller meals with the fam, & here’s to my fave: Cadbury Cream Eggs. ☺️🌷❤️

To celebrate April arriving, at last, here are some vintage calendars & a spring tea party by the incomparable Victorian artist, Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). ☺️🌷🌸🐛

Some old-school selfies for you to make you smile. Below are: Rembrandt’s self-portrait as he mugs for the viewer in the 17th cen, & two self-portraits by Boilly in the 19th cen. See? Even “serious” artists can be silly.
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In children’s books, doors often act as portals to magical, other worlds. Here are four old doors I always loved: Alice’s tiny door, Mary’s secret garden door, Dorothy’s tornado-blown door to Oz, & Lucy’s wardrobe door to Narnia. ☺️📚💫

#Wyrdwednesday #kidlit

HC Andersen grew up in dire poverty, wishing for the beautiful, shiny things of the gentry in his Danish town. So his fairy tales explore self-worth, beauty, & ideas of nobility tested. Edmund Dulac grasped all this & so his art glistens. 💫
#FairyTaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine

A lovely mermaid, by Warwick Goble, to cheer us all up on this Monday. ☺️💕💫

#MermaidMonday