Karen Lee Streetさんのイラストまとめ

Illustration by Carlo Farneti for a 1935 edition of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire. #Gothic

From 1561-1562, Croatian-born Georg Bocskay created ‘Mira calligraphiae monumenta’ to show his technical mastery of various writing styles. 30 years later, Joris Hoefnagel symathetically illuminated Bocskay's book with fruit, flowers, insects #calligraphy #illuminatedmanuscript

The magical birth of Princess Kaguya in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japan 10thc): A childless bamboo-cutter finds a baby girl inside a glowing bamboo stalk (He & his wife raise her but when grown she returns to her people on the moon) #FolkloreThursday (Print:Yōshū Chikanobu)

Elsa Beskow used elements from fairy & folktales such elves, goblins, fairy-flowers, talking animals in her stories. Here King Winter’s palace (Ollie’s Ski Trip), Thumbelina, Children of the Forest. #FairytaleTuesday (2/2)

Moon boats to Dreamland: Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's (1888 - 1960) lovely depictions of children sailing off on magical adventures at night-- the beauty of dreaming.
#FairyTaleTuesday

Puce: a colour favored by Marie Antoinette & popular in the late 18thc/ early 19thc. Puce is French for flea; the colour is described as resembling congealed blood or a flea after it’s been crushed on white linen— a familiar shade in its heyday. #FolkloreWords #fashionhistory

Dutch artist Lidia Postma’s soft impressionist style enhances the darker elements of Cinderella. Note one nasty stepsister's blood-soaked feet after cutting off her heels to try to fit into the slipper. Another stepsister seems to have bloody toes... #FairytaleTuesday

Carousel Cats made by the Dentzel Carousel Company. Gustav Dentzel set up a cabinet & carouselmaking business in Philadelphia in the 1850s and hired European woodworkers to carve the figures. The cats always had either a fish, bird, crab or squid in their mouths. #Caturday

JJ Grandville’s #Illustrations , particularly his caricatures of anthropomorphic animals, influenced the work of John Tenniel in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. (Here more Les Fleurs Animées) #FairyTaleTuesday

Les Fleurs Animées by French artist J J Grandville (pseudonym of Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gerard, 1803 - 1847). The #Illustrations , which are both satirical and poetic, were published posthumously in 1847.
#FairyTaleTuesday