Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️さんのイラストまとめ

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

Some fairy-tale enchantment for you all with Warwick Goble’s deft hand. I love his illustrations. They’re other-worldly, yet lovingly familiar. Have a cozy day. ☺️💕