Maude Fromeさんのイラストまとめ

The Mermaid, by Howard Pyle, 1910. @delartmuseum #FaustianFriday #fullmoon #mysterious #romantic #art

Illustrations by Arthur Rackham for ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ by JM Barrie. Published in #London by Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. #FolkloreThursday @HodderBooks

Narcissus Poeticus, the daffodil of poets, arrives in late March. In Greek myth the self-obsessed Narcissus was turned into a white daffodil by Nemesis, & Persephone, goddess of #spring, was abducted by Pluto while she was gathering narcissi. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: CMB/Waterhouse

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Hamlet, Act 4, Sc 5. #ShakespeareSunday

Imgs: Picking Daffodils & #Springtime in the Orchard, both by Harold Harvey, c.1912. #spring #Cornwall #Cornish #artist #SpringEquinox

The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. #FolkloreThursday Img: A. Rackham, 1933

“O wonderful son that can so ‘stonish a mother!”
Hamlet, Act 3, Sc 2.
#ShakespeareSunday
Elizabeth Mortlock and her son John Mortlock the Younger, painted by John Downman, 1779

From the 1st century AD, a lamia was a female night demon who haunted & then devoured her victims. By the middle ages she was portrayed as a serpent who shapeshifted into a woman. In Waterhouse’s painting she is seen with snake skin still warm, seducing her prey. #FaustianFriday

“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.

A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid. #FolkloreThursday

Primroses, Stanley Spencer, 1950. Now in a private collection. #spring #flowers #art #ArtLovers

Plants of Death in Walter Crane’s Floral Garden. “Kingcups drink belladonna”, the image suggesting an unwitting victim of a beautiful poisoner, while the queen has “nightshade upon her”. Her poisoned cloak bears the dark moon - the #moon of poisons. #FaustianFriday
#Victorian