Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋さんのイラストまとめ

Ireland is redhead land, but they were always suspect. It was said a redheaded woman could bring bad luck to a ship, or seeing one on market day meant no sales. As a redhead, that’s tough luck for me. My family is Irish, so I take it in stride. 😂🍀

#SuperstitionSaturday #StPat

Lévi-Strauss once said that “animals are good to think with” -they stick in our consciousness. Perrault’s Puss in Boots, that elegant, Gallic feline, offered poor children fairy-tale paths to flee poverty: via savoir-faire, sartorial agency, & cunning. 😉📚

#FairyTaleTuesday

The mythic philosopher’s stone could turn metals into gold. But 20th-cen historian, Frances Yates, a hero to me, showed the link between Renaissance, occult, alchemical thinkers, like Dee & Bruno (burned alive) & the protosciences of Newton -rich histories. ☺️📚

#MythologyMonday

March is here, my friends. Here are some vintage Kate Greenaway calendars for you, c. 1880s. And I had to include a hopeful spring robin. So here’s Pauline Baynes’ timeless illustration of the spring thaw coming to Narnia at last, c. 1950, the first edition. ☺️💕

#March

I’ll soon be researching the enchanting world of the polymath, Beatrix Potter (1866-1943). As we dip our toe into Sat., I thought I’d share with you some beautiful works she did of cats & kittens. She always loved her feline friends. ☺️💕

#caturday #beatrixpotter #art

If you were going to illustrate a dish running away with a spoon, Randolph Caldecott was your man (1846-86). He died so young, but he helped invent the picture book for children as we know it. I love his historic & rural English scenes. ☺️❤️

#caldecott #illustration

It’s a snowy day here, so I’m sending you all off with Edmund Dulac’s magical illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Have a nice night, all you lovely people. ☺️💕❄️

#thesnowqueen #fairytales #Goodnight

Some magical birds by Arthur Rackham for you all today (circa 1906-15). Somehow, with his fairy-tale eye, he made these feathered friends seem enchanted, unique, & wise all at the same time. ☺️🪶💕

#FairyTaleTuesday #Rackham

We’ve always loved wise owls. Perhaps because they look like sages, or ask “who,” or that the Greek goddess of wisdom, Athena, always had an owl perched on her shoulder. So when Milne & Shepard created “Owl” in the Pooh books, he was instantly loved. 🦉❤️

#SuperstitionSat #owls

Toni Morrison used to talk about truth & myth. Like the old myth of Black slaves flying back to Africa, & reclaiming their freedom. Folklorists sought such tales, & artists, such as the Dillons, capture how the power of flight, for Black lives, endures.

#FolkloreThursday #BLM