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So the Prince was tended with care …
Oh, a moon face in a shadowy place,
And a light touch and a winsome grace

The Prince’s Progress
Poem by Christina Rossetti

Illustration by Florence Susan Harrison

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2022-09-26

Hi all, a reminder that is happening now, with the theme of:

ILLUSTRATORS of the GOLDEN AGE of FAIRY TALES & FOLKLORE!

Bring on your fave images from RACKHAM, CRANE, RENTOUL OUTHWAITE et al, & tweet about them on the hashtag! Maude xx

Image: Kate Greenaway

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2022-09-26

"I used to meet her in the garden, the ravine, and in the manor fields. She was always picking flowers and herbs, those she knew her father could use for healing drinks and potions."

- Hans Christian Andersen's,
The Wind's Tale
🎨 Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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2022-09-25

"From the other world I come back to you,
My locks are uncurled with dripping drenching dew.
You know the old, whilst I know the new:
But tomorrow you shall know this too."
--Christina Rossetti


🎨 Florence Harrison

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2022-09-25

All sprouts shot up from the deep bottom. Everything living arose. A profusion of water lilies spread out as if it were a woven carpet, and lying on it was a sleeping woman, young and beautiful.


🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Elenore Abbott

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2022-09-25

The Golden Age of Illustration 1875 – 1920
In this period the popularity, abundance and upsurge in the quality of illustrated books marked a change in the way that publishers, artists and the general public came to view this art form https://t.co/2NSdXWpOYw

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2022-09-25

"Look at them, mother Troll said. Look at my sons! You won't find more beautiful trolls on this side of the moon" 1915 by Swedish artist John Bauer, an artist I ♥️ and see how he may have inspired Brian Froud's Mystics for The Dark Crystal, my favourite film

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2022-09-25

"How cosy it is to sit in the warm glow of the fire listening to tales. Let the wind tell its own story! It can tell you more adventures than all of us put together..."

The Wind's Tale by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Edmund Dulac (1911)

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2022-09-25

Richard 'Dickie' Doyle (1824-83): Teasing a Butterfly

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2022-09-25

John Dickson Batten (1860-1932) initially studied law before realising he'd chosen the wrong career. His subsequent paintings contained mythological & allegorical motifs which ultimately steered him toward illustrating fairy tales, nursery rhymes & nonsense tales.

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2022-09-25

In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return, but after many years, he died, alone.


: Arthur Rackham

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2022-09-25


Illustrations for Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Kate Greenaway (1846-1901.) Note the 18th century costumes in a Queen Anne style, so beloved by Greenaway, and known as the Kate Greenaway style.

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2022-09-25

In northern counties of England it was said that if you swept the dust from the house out of the front door then you'd effectively be sweeping all the house's luck and good fortune with it.

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2022-09-18

Witches' Kitchens by Hieronymus Francken II (between 1593 and 1623), Frans Francken the Younger (1610), David Teniers the Younger (between 1630 and 1690), and Francisco Goya (1797-98)

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2022-09-18

There is a place in the ocean where Neptune stores the heart of every whale that came to rest, at the end of its days, on the floor of the sea. A locket of sorts in lieu of the absent hearts of men.


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2022-09-18

"The very best of cooks are sorcerers, wizards, shamans and tricksters. They must be, for they are capable of powerful acts of transformation.
-Midori Snyder - In Praise of the Cooks

Alchemists in workshop engraving 1580

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2022-09-11

“The ripest fruit first falls...”
Richard II, Act 2, Sc 1

Image: The Crab-Apple Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, 1926

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2022-09-11

In nasu baba is a with dark purple skin and the features of an ugly old woman resembling an eggplant with teeth. She haunts a temple complex on Mount Hiei, usually lurking in dark rooms to avoid being seen. Despite her wild and...

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2022-09-11

Christina Rossetti's ‘Goblin Market’ tells the story of an encounter between Laura & Lizzie & goblin merchants. Laura exchanges a lock of her hair to taste the goblins’ forbidden fruit & deteriorates till she is ‘knocking at Death’s door’ https://t.co/HeSTxcb51O

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2022-09-11

According to legend, eating food offered to you while visiting fairyland, makes it impossible to ever leave and go back home. By consuming fairy food, Faerie becomes a part of you and thus you'll have to stay there forever.

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2022-09-11