Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

An old English saying: “Don’t kill Cock Robin, don’t uproot Herb Robert & don’t cross Robin Goodfellow”, as bad luck will follow. Herb Robert - wild geranium - is named after Robin Goodfellow, an English hobgoblin. It is a powerful & versatile healer. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: CMB

The strawberry is Venus-ruled, the nasturtium is ruled by Mars. The perfect summer pairing. #Illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker. #FolkloreThursday

Wildflowers of Britain & Ireland for the month of #July, by Margaret Erskine Wilson. #Watercolour, mid C20th. #flower #art

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oberon places the juice of the flower love-in-idleness (heart’s-ease) on sleeping Titania’s eyelids, so that she “will madly dote upon the next live creature that she sees.”
Img: The heart’s-ease flower fairy by Cicely Mary Barker #FairyTaleTuesday

“The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.” Henry VI, part 1 #ShakespeareSunday
Setting Sun, by Dame Laura Knight, 20th century #art #SummerSolstice #solstice

For 3 stormy days in June 1816 #MaryShelley & her friends were stuck inside #Byron’s villa on Lake Geneva. They started to create ghost stories. In the small hours of 16th June Mary dreamed of a man-made monster. Upon waking she began to write #Frankenstein. #FairyTaleTuesday

Honeysuckle (woodbine) is the birth flower for June, along with the rose. Twined around the front door it will protect your house from harm, & placed in a vase it will attract money. To Chaucer “wodebyne” symbolised steadfastness in love. #FairytaleTuesday Img: Cicely Barker

The Ice-Maiden by Edmund Dulac. The main illustration for the children’s book The Dreamer of Dreams, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1915. The ice-maiden, guarded by her bears, collects broken hearts at night & warms them in her castle in a circle of flames. #FairyTaleTuesday

The #Thames from Cheyne Walk, by Alice Boyd, 1875. #Victorian #river #art #Chelsea #London

Some flower fairies that don’t get out much! Meet foxglove, snapdragon, eyebright & Canterbury bell. #Illustrations by Cicely Mary Barker. #FolkloreThursday