Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

Illustrations by Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916) for ”Thumbelina”, HC Andersen’s fairytale about a tiny girl who emerges from a barleycorn flower, is abducted by a toad, pressured to marry a mole, escapes on a swallow & finds happiness with the flower fairies #FairytaleTuesday

In Cornwall if you see a bat it's traditional to chant for luck:
“Airymouse, airymouse, fly over my head

and you shall have a crust of bread,

and when I brew and when I bake

you shall have a piece of my wedding cake.”
#SuperstitionSaturday #baturday
🎨Dudley Hardy (1891)

Linocut prints of felines by Marguerite Mahood (1901-1989) Australian potter, cartoonist, printmaker, art historian and lecturer.
#Caturday

Sable Island (nr. Nova Scotia) is home to wild horses & ghosts. 350+ ships sank off its shores; legend has it the horses escaped a shipwreck (not true) & the ghost of a priest who ministered its 16thc penal colony & a murdered ‘white lady’ roam its dunes (true?) #FolkloreThursday

Illustrations by Victo (Victoria) Ngai (b.1988 in Hong Kong, lives in Los Angeles) for the Folio Society’s CHINESE FAIRY TALES & FANTASIES. The legends include underworld quests, lessons from animals, trials of virtue & fortitude, journeys to enlightenment.
#FairyTaleTuesday

A quartet of silver bell-pushes by Fabergé, c. 1899-1908 inspired by nature: a razorback pig, a hare, an elephant and a woodcock.
#Faberge

“Sleeping Beauty”
Ballet Costume Designs (1921) by Leon Bakst (1866-1924), Russian painter, scene & costume designer for the Ballets Russes. #FairytaleTuesday

The world of fairies as imagined by Swiss artist
Ernst Kreidolf (1863–1956) in his books ‘Sommervoegel’ (1908) and ‘Der Gartentraum’ (The Garden Dream, 1911)
#InternationalFairyDay #WyrdWednesday
#GothicNewWorlds

Chumash myth: the Great Spirit punished the quarreling animals by darkening Earth with a blanket. The brave hummingbird pierced it over & over with her beak; her perseverance created the stars. Great Spirit's reward was to remove the blanket for half of each day #MythologyMonday

Happy #SummerSoltice2020
to the Northern Hemisphere

“Stonehenge” by John Constable, 1835.
(Held in Victoria & Albert Museum, London)