Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

The Dragon King & his Bride + Green Dragon Cocktail by Bertha Lum (1869-1954). Lum studied wood block printing in Japan & was inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e (floating world) prints + themes from Japanese legends & ghost stories as collected by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn #FaustianFriday

Pirates & their pet parrots:lore that may have originated w/ Robert Louis Stevenson’s Long John Silver & pet macaw in Treasure Island But parrots were valuable commodities in the golden age of piracy & easily cared for pets on long sea journeys-truth in fiction? #FolkloreThursday

Depictions of Roman goddess Fortuna who brings either good or bad luck as symbolised by a revolving wheel or spinning globe. She often holds a cornucopia to indicate abundance and a ship’s rudder as she controls fate.
#WyrdWednesday

Hans Christian Andersen’s THE LITTLE MERMAID illustrated by British artist Christian Birmingham whose colour work is drawn in chalk pastel which wonderfully captures the sense of water, light, magic, sea creatures
See https://t.co/keUGvqyygG
#mermaids #FairyTaleTuesday

“So Painted to Make her Fair”
(Two Gentlemen of Verona A2 S1)
“Maybe She Doth but Counterfeit”
(Much Ado About Nothing A2 S3)
Art by Rosalind Lyons, inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. She was formerly Artist in Residence at the Globe https://t.co/VTDoxJ2qGk #ShakespeareSunday

Aesop’s fables linoprints (1970) by British artist Edward Bawden (1903-1989). Clockwise: “There’s a time for work and a time for play;” “Conceit may lead to self-destruction;” “Never underestimate your enemies;” “Slow but steady wins the race.” #FairyTaleTuesday

Papageno from “The Magic Flute” and Titania & Bottom from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Art by Sarah Young https://t.co/8lt4RpzFLQ
#GothicSpring

Repairing nature...
Advertising cards for John English & Co. Peckenham Imperial Diamond, drilled eyed needles ca. 1870-1900.
(in Boston Public Library) #Victorian #fairies

For the casual entertainer…
#Victorian table centre-pieces as featured in
The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery (England, 1894) ”a complete dictionary of all pertaining to the art of cookery and table service.” (Digitised book in the New York Academy of Medicine Library) #1800s

Illustrations by Canadian artist Jillian Tamaki (b.1980) for Irish Myths and Legends(Folio Society) by Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) Lady Gregory, dramatist & folklorist, co-founded the Irish Literary & the Abbey Theatres with W.B. Yeats #StPatricksDay2021 #FairyTaleTuesday