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Beatrix Potter, Printer’s proof of the coloured frontispiece of ‘Peter Rabbit’, 1901.
(Source: https://t.co/AzPBZt6HOt)
‘Τhe Fantastic Mr. FOX’ for the first edition of Roald Dahl’s, 1970
Illustration by Donald Chaffin
Illustration: Mole Spring Cleaning from by Inga Moore.
"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
~From ‘Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Grahame.
Kazuko M.
"Woken from winter sleep,
the frogs ascend
the last thin layer
of snow and
spread their bodies flat"
Mokichi Saito
(image: Shotei Watanabe)
Serhiy Lopata`s illustration for “Somewhere in the Depth of My Heart” by Pavlo Tychyna, 1975
(vintage-ukraine)
For the text of spring is marked entirely in hints, in understatements, in ellipses, dotted with letters in the empty azure, and the birds capriciously insert their conjectures and their divinations into the empty spaces between syllables.
- Bruno Schulz
E. Munch, Starry Night