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A butterfly #illustration this #BrianWildsmithDay
from "Animal Seasons", first published in 1980 #Wildsmith90
2/2 #illustrationart by Feodor Rojankovsky, in "The Tall Book of Nursery Tales", (Harper and Rox 1992), copyrighted to Artist & Writers Guild Inc., 1944
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2. from "The Pot that Wouldn't Stop Boiling"
#illustrationart by #Russian artist Gennady Spirin for the fairy tales "The Real Princess", and "Children of Lir"
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#illustrationart by Vladimir Konashevich, for Pushkin's "The Tale of the Dead Princess & the Seven Knights" #Russian #fairytale
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Joyce Mercer (1896 - 1965, English) #illustrations for two Hans Christian Andersen stories:
1. The Wild Swans - from 1838
https://t.co/l9oifn84pm
2. The Red Shoes - from 1845
https://t.co/dhdj4XEGwV
#gardenshour Amaryllis, by Pierre-Joseph Redouté #botanical #illustrationart
"I'm a four loom weaver, as many a man knows,
I've nowt to eat an' I, ve worn out mi clothes
Mi clogs are both brocken, an' stockings I've none.
Thee'd hardly gi' us tuppence for all I've getten on."
from the old folk song "Four-loom Weaver"
#FolkloreThursday
#FairyTaleTuesday Aschenputtel often sat at her mother's grave, whr a sapling grew, watered by her tears. She wished with all her heart for a gown and slippes to wear to a royal ball, and three times her wish came true #Cinderella
#illustration 1. Wanda Gag 2. Millicent Sowerby
#FairyTaleTuesday Perrault's early Red Riding Hood tale had a warning attached, advising well brought-up young ladies not to dally with dangerous beasts, lest they be swayed by the charms of a wolf in disguise.
#vintage #illustration Henriette Willebeek Le Mair (1889-1966 Dutch)
"This flake grew bigger and bigger, until at last it turned into a woman, who was dressed in the finest white gauze which looked as if it had been made from millions of star-shaped flakes"
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🎨 #illustration by Edmund Dulac